Mostly British Film Festival

Showing the best new films from the UK as well as classic films. Our partners are the British Film Institute which has given us three new films. We also will have a preview of the much-anticipated new version of Wuthering Heights. Our opening film is about Richard Burton's life growing up in Wales. Also showing new prints of Tom Jones and Chariots of Fire.

The Mostly British Film Festival heads into its 18^th year with a rich program of family dramas, romances, comedies and documentaries from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India from February 5-12 at the Vogue theater.



Highlights of Mostly British Film Festival 2026

The opening night film Mr. Burton tells of Richard Burton’s early impoverished life in Wales and how a dedicated teacher recognizing the talents of the then Richard Jenkins steers him to become a giant of the stage and screen, even supplying the lad with his own last name. Beloved British actor Toby Jones appears as the teacher and Industry star Harry Lawley plays the young Richard, channeling the actor’s rough sexuality.

Mostly British closes with I Swear based on a true story of a young man who has Tourette syndrome but doesn’t know it.  Nobody in his Scottish town recognizes what ails him, either and so he becomes an outcast.  Robert Aramayo from Game of Thrones plays the troubled lead with a mixture of bewilderment, despair and depression until he learns to succeed on his own terms. For his performance he won Best Lead Performance at the British Independent Film Awards.

The Mostly British festival is thrilled to announce a partnership this year with the prestigious British Film Institute. The BFI restores classic films and nurtures handpicked independent filmmakers to get their dream projects onto movie screens.  
Our festival will show three films sponsored by these fairy godmothers across the pond.  Each one is a miracle unto itself.  Brides follows two alienated teenage girls who, lured by social media posts promising freedom, run away from Britain to marry Jihadis. Director Nadia Fall attempts to understand the girls’ motivation and temper the rush to judgment.

Urchin also tries to understand its main character, a homeless addict in East London. Director Harris Dickinson (an actor known for Babygirl) clearly has a future behind the camera. As the title character, Frank Dillane draws us in and makes us care about his plight with a raw openness and intelligence that won him Best Actor honors at the Cannes festival in May. 

The third BFI-sponsored film My Father’s Shadow (a Special Mention awardee at Cannes) is set against the backdrop of the tumultuous Nigerian 1993 presidential election, focusing on a father who takes his young sons to Lagos for what they believe will be a day of fun. Instead what they see in front of them, including their father acting overly friendly to a beautiful woman, just confuses the boys.

As a special treat, the much-anticipated new version of Wuthering Heights will screen for free at the festival a few days in advance of its official opening. Directed by the iconoclastic Emerald Fennell (Saltburn) the film stars Owen Cooper (the incredible young star of Adolescence) and Jacob Elordi as the young and adult Heathcliff.

For more information and to purchase individual tickets and a series pass go to www.mostlybritish.org or the Vogue box office at 3290 Sacramento Street.