DREAMERS
UK | 78 min | 15
IN CINEMAS FROM 5 DECEMBER
After fleeing persecution at home, Nigerian migrant Isio (Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́) is sent to Hatchworth Removal Centre, where she hopes her asylum plea will receive a fair hearing. Isio believes the only way out is to play by the rules, even when her charismatic new roommate, Farah (Ann Akinjirin), warns her otherwise. In the confines of detention, Farah’s friendship brings colour to Isio’s world. As their unexpected bond blossoms into romance, Isio must decide whether to continue trusting in a broken system that threatens to tear them apart or dare to follow Farah into a risky plan that could cost them everything.
Acclaimed producer Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s (Blue Story, Boxing Day) visually bold and deeply moving directorial debut is a tender story of defiance, which insists that love can endure even in the most hostile places.
Director: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Starring: Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Ann Akinjirin
PREVIEWS & Q&A SCREENINGS
with writer/director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
29 November | Birmingham | Mockingbird Cinema Info & Tickets
1 December | Leicester | Phoenix Info & Tickets
2 December | Manchester | HOME Info & Tickets
3 December | Bristol | Watershed Info & Tickets
4 December | London | Genesis Info & Tickets + actor Diana Yekinni
5 December | London | BFI Southbank Info & Tickets + actors Ann Akinjirin and Diana Yekinni, and DoP Anna Patarakina
8 December | Coventry | Warwick Arts Centre Info & Tickets
FIND A SHOWING
From 5 December
Birmingham: Mockingbird
Bristol: Watershed
Coventry: Warwick Arts Centre
Edinburgh: Filmhouse
Glasgow: Glasgow Film Theatre
Leicester: Phoenix
London: BFI Southbank | Curzon Bloomsbury | Peckhamplex | Genesis Cinema | Ritzy | Ealing Picturehouse | ODEON Streatham
Manchester: HOME | ODEON Manchester Great Northern
From 12 December
Belfast: Queen's Film Theatre
Dublin: Lighthouse Cinema
Dundee: Dundee Contemporary Arts
Inverness: Eden Court
Leeds: Hyde Park Picturehouse
London: Arzner Cinema
Festivals & Awards
Berlin Film Festival 2025 Panorama
Pink Apple Queer Film Festival 2025 Opening Film
Frameline 2025 Narrative Features
CAFILM Pride Presents Frameline49 Picks
GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival 2025 Winner, Jury Award
BFI London Film Festival 2025 Sutherland Competition
Iris Prize 2025 Winner, Best Performance in a Female Role (Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo)
Leeds International Film Festival 2025 Constellations