Films Classics From 28 Apr Farewell, Home Sweet Home The 1999 absurdist comedy Farewell, Home Sweet Home, was screened out of competition in the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, picking up a Fipresci prize at…
Films Classics From 30 Apr The Blood of a Poet + performance with soprano Dame Felicity Lott and composer Jason Carr on 30 April
Classics Films 4 & 25 May My Father’s Glory Young Marcel, the son of a seamstress and a school teacher, quickly learns how to read and write. The whole Pagnol family takes off to…
Films Classics From 05 May Bonjour Tristesse Adapted from Françoise Sagan’s ground-breaking novel of the same title, Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse follows Cecile (Jean Seberg), a decadent young girl who lives with…
Classics Films 11 May & 1 June My Mother’s Castle Marcel returns to the hills where he discovers love and heartbreak. Every weekend The Pagnol family faces a very long walk under the hot sun…
Films Classics Sat 11 - Mon 27 May Marius Marius is a young man who loves his gruff and good-natured father César, and also Fanny, who sells shells in front of César’s bar. Since his childhood,…
Films Classics From 12 May Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird The film is mockingly named after a Georgian fairy tale and depicts 36 hours in the life of a young musician, who plays the timpani…
Films Classics Sun 12 May Gardens In Autumn The screening will be introduced by award-winning director Nino Kirtadze and followed by a Q&A
Classics Films 17 May & 9 June César César marks the culmination of the Marseille trilogy. It ties up the stories of the characters introduced in Marius and Fanny, showcasing their growth and…
Classics Films From 18 May Fanny Marius embarked on “La Malaisie”, yielding to the irrepressible call of the sea. He left behind his old father César and his fiancée Fanny, who…
Films Classics Sun 19 May La Symphonie pastorale + intro by Colin Roust, Professor in musicology (University of Kansas)
Classics Films 22 & 25 May Aznavour by Charles Charles Aznavour was a perpetual archivist. After receiving his first camera from Edith Piaf in 1948, he filmed continuously, capturing the places he visited, the…
Classics Films 22 & 26 May Shoot the Piano Player François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in Shoot the Piano Player, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot…
Films Classics From 26 May Lola Montès + intro by Academy Awards nominated composer Gary Yershon on 26 May
Films Classics 27 & 30 May Is Paris Burning? After years of invisibility, this epic war film is back in a beautiful 4K restoration, telling of the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by…
Films CinéFamilies From 02 June La Grande Vadrouille During World War II, when their combat aircraft is shot down by the Germans, three English airmen parachute to the comparative safety of Nazi occupied…
Films Kids & Families Sat 8 June Goodbye, Children Garnering no less than 7 César awards including Best Film and Best Director, Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical film is one of the greatest accounts on the…
Films Classics Mon 10 June The Trial A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for…
Classics Films Sun 16 June Rome Open City A landmark of Italian cinema and of neo-realism, Rossellini’s portrait of life under the Nazi Occupation remains remarkable for its sheer immediacy, tension, and emotional…
Classics Films 30 June & 2 July Europa, Europa As World War II ravages Europe, Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) gets separated from his family after fleeing with them from Germany to Poland and finds himself…
Films Classics From 07 July Kanał During the last days of the Warsaw Uprising a ravaged band of resistance fighters retreats into the city sewers to avoid capture by the Nazis.…
Films Classics 14 - 18 July The Cranes Are Flying The only Soviet film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and one of the best films of all times,…
Films Classics From 21 July Forbidden Games During the French exodus of 1940, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a young French girl, is orphaned during a German air raid. She is befriended by Michel…
Classics Festivals & Series Films 21 Apr - 12 May Otar Iosseliani, Georgia’s Unorthodox Poet of the Sublime Next event : Farewell, Home Sweet Home Sun 28 Apr at 14:00
Classics Festivals & Series Films 27 March - 5 June (Re)Discovering the Work of French Film Composer Georges Auric Next event : The Blood of a Poet Tue 30 Apr at 18:45
Classics Festivals & Series Films 4 May - 9 June Marcel Pagnol: Language and its Splendour Next event : My Father's Glory Sat 04 May at 13:30
Classics Films 5 Nov - 28 Jan Finally Sunday Film Club Next event : Bonjour Tristesse Sun 05 May at 14:00
Classics Festivals & Series Films 22 - 26 May Aznavour: 100th Anniversary Next event : Shoot the Piano Player Wed 22 May at 20:30
Classics Festivals & Series Films 27 May - 21 July WWII On Screen Next event : Is Paris Burning? Mon 27 May at 11:00
