DREAMERS

UK | 78 min | 15

IN CINEMAS FROM 5 DECEMBER

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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

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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

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