Losing The Plot #12 takes place Friday 05-Sunday 07 June 2026. Star & Shadow Cinema's annual film retreat returns to create a shared space for community and alternative cinema in the wilderness of the North Pennines. 
 
Friday 05 June
6.30pm: Dinner
8pm: Desire Lines (Dir. Dane Komljen)
Fire
 
Saturday 06 June
8am: Breakfast
11am: Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês (Dir. Ery Claver)
1pm: Lunch
4pm: While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child (Dir. Andrea Luka Zimmerman)
4.30pm: All These Summers (Dir. Therese Henningsen)
+ conversation with filmmakers
6.30pm: Dinner
7.30pm: We are Making a Film About Mark Fisher (Dir. Close & Remote)
9.30pm: Magic City (Dir Guillaume Maupin & Pablo Guarise)
Fire
 
Sunday 07 June
8am: Breakfast
10.30am: Redoubt (Dir. John Skoog)
2pm: Collective Monologue (Dir. Jessica Sarah Rinland)
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