Films Kids & Families Sat 27 Apr Why’s the Sky Blue? A playful selection of children’s animation exploring our relationship to the outside and everything it brings us; big gardens to run around in, animals to…
Films Festivals & Series Sat 27 Apr People on the Precipice This collection of narrative and documentary short films turns its eyes onto precipices, edges and boundaries and the outliers who live beyond them. The films…
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 Festivals & Series Sun 28 Apr Hard decisions This selection of shorts, animation and documentary looks at all the ways in which choices and decisions are thrust upon us, and the almost psychedelic…
Films Festivals & Series Sun 28 Apr Psychodrama This collection of narrative shorts explores the intersection between drama and psychology with fresh visual language and pertinent ideas. Trauma, one of the key driving…
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…
Festivals & Series Films Special Screenings Fri 10 May Consent FRA | 2023 | 118 mins | dir. Vanessa Filho, written by Vanessa Springora, François Pirot, Vanessa Filho, with Kim Higelin, Jean-Paul Rouve, Laetitia Casta…
Festivals & Series Films Sat 11 May And the Party Goes On In the working-class district of old Marseille, Rosa is the heart and soul of her community, a nurse and the matriarch of a large and…
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,…
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 Sun 12 May Gardens In Autumn The screening will be introduced by award-winning director Nino Kirtadze and followed by a Q&A
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…
Festivals & Series Films Sun 12 May I Will Never Heal In a mineral black and white that breaks with the usual blue sky of Marseille, I Will Never Heal summons three anonymous figures, two men…
Films Festivals & Series 14 & 19 May The Goldman Case A tense, edge-of-the-seat courtroom drama powerfully recreating the trial of Pierre Goldman in 1976 France, which was widely acknowledged as the most divisive case since…
Festivals & Series Films Special Screenings Wed 15 May Consent FRA | 2023 | 118 mins | dir. Vanessa Filho, written by Vanessa Springora, François Pirot, Vanessa Filho, with Kim Higelin, Jean-Paul Rouve, Laetitia Casta…
Festivals & Series Films Thu 16 May And the Party Goes On In the working-class district of old Marseille, Rosa is the heart and soul of her community, a nurse and the matriarch of a large and…
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…
Films Kids & Families Sat 18 May The Times of Secrets Marcel Pagnol embarks on his last summer vacation before high school and returns to his beloved hills in Provence where nature is at its best:…
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…
Festivals & Series Films Sun 19 May I Will Never Heal In a mineral black and white that breaks with the usual blue sky of Marseille, I Will Never Heal summons three anonymous figures, two men…
Films Classics Sun 19 May La Symphonie pastorale + intro by Colin Roust, Professor in musicology (University of Kansas)
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…
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…
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 Festivals & Series Fri 31 May Occupied Europe, A Fragmented Resistance Posterity has bequeathed us an image of the Resistance as partisans acting alone against the Nazi occupier. And yet, in many countries under Nazi occupation,…
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…
Festivals & Series Films 27 March - 5 June (Re)Discovering the Work of French Film Composer Georges Auric
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…
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Films Talks 6 June - 21 Sept Women Shaping the World Next event : There's Still Tomorrow Sat 27 Apr at 13:30
Festivals & Series Films 26 - 28 Apr In Short, Europe: Best of Best Next event : People on the Precipice Sat 27 Apr at 15:30
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
Books & Ideas From 23 Jan Entente Cordiale Celebrations Next event : (Re)Discovering the Work of French Film Composer Georges Auric Wed 05 Jun at 00:00
