Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue Receives UK Premiere

Jessica Sarah Rinland, Collective Monologue, 2025. Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Collective Monologue, 2025. Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (2025)
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Documentary | Language: Spanish (Argentina) | Subtitles: English | 104′

In UK Cinemas beginning on February 19, 2026.
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SYNOPSIS
​Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal.

UK CINEMA SCREENINGS

BFI SOUTHBANK LONDON (+Q&A) – February 19 – 6:10pm

ICA LONDON (+Q&A) – February 21 – 6:00pm

PHOENIX LONDON (+Q&A) – February 28 – 2:00pm

PICTUREVILLE BRADFORD – March 1 – 2:00pm

CINE LUMIERE – March 7 – 6:00pm

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Argentine-British filmmaker and artist Jessica Sarah Rinland (SMACT ’18) has won awards including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival, Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento, Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Fetisval, ICA’s Best Experimental Film at LSFF, and M.I.T’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts. She has screened and exhibited work at TIFF, NYFF, BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, San Sebastian, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Somerset House. She was an Associate Artist at Somerset House Studios and a Film Studies Center Fellow at Harvard University. Her films are held in the British Film Institute’s collections.

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