Three films from Constellation: Leeds International Film Festival’s main programme of UK premieres, follow individuals and couples confronting their sexual desires. Follies ( Éric K. Boulianne, Canada, 2025) Follies is a Canadian romantic comedy directed by and starring Éric K. Boulianne alongside Catherine Chabot, as François and Julie, successful but unfulfilled and sexless married parents who open their relationship up in an attempt to fix it. Co-written by Boulianne, Foll

Primark, rimming, and why Pillion could've been shown at a porn film festival. A sexy, uplifting, but complicated Christmas-set, rom-com about a shy, stifled young man finding his voice through his first dom-sub relationship with a mysterious, ‘out-of-his-league’ biker - with sex scenes never seen before in mainstream cinema. Simultaneously banal, touching, and naughty, Pillion is the equivalent of wandering around Trinity shopping centre on your first date, getting finger bl

A screening of Chantal Akerman's Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974) preceded by a selection of artists' moving image works exploring desire and the body. A Brief Introduction to Chantal Akerman and Structural Film Structural film, in its broadest sense, is a term used to describe an approach to filmmaking which prioritises the basic elements of filmmaking over conventional narrative and character-driven film. Historically, the term also describes a particular movement born from avant-g