Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles leads the new releases this week, telling the story of the iconic director and actor’s visual thinking; The Guardians, Xavier Beauvois’ epic about a woman trying to keep her family together during the Great War; The Heiresses, which also screens with an intro as part of our Pride season; Shevaun Mizrahi’s portrait of the elderly residents of an Istanbul nursing home, Distant Constellation; and The Nun, not the (frankly terrifying-looking) horror of the same name, but a re-release of Jacques Rivette’s controversial 1966 story of a young woman forced to take holy orders.

New film season celebrating Northern-ness, Our North starts on Sunday with a celebration of Andrea Dunbar. Cult classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too, screens with an intro and Q&A with a panel including Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile writer Adelle Stripe, followed by Clio Barnard’s Dunbar biopic The Arbor.

The Dark Page and Agnes Varda seasons also continue alongside Apostasy, Leave no Trace,  Leaning Into The Wind + In Bloom (short),  The Escape and Under the Tree.