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2 & 5 Nov

Gabrielle

Adapting Joseph Conrad’s short story, The Return, director Patrice Chéreau weaves the intense tale of a wealthy couple whose marriage is turned upside down by…

Films

Classics

From 2 Nov

Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini moved beyond neorealism to a more profound exploration of inner truths with this masterly study of a middle-aged, middle-class English couple on the…

Films

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From 7 Nov

The House of Mirth

Gillian Anderson delivers one of the finest performances of her career in Terence Davies’s searing and visually intoxicating adaptation of Edith Wharton’s era-defining novel. Lily…

Films

Classics

Sat 8 Nov

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

+ intro by Prof. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (University of Silesia, Poland) on 8 Nov

Films

Classics

9 & 11 Nov

Almayer’s Folly

+ intro by Prof. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (University of Silesia, Poland) on 9 Nov

Films

Classics

From 9 Nov

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

Entering the bowels of the prestigious Palais Garnier, Frederick Wiseman follows, over the course of twelve weeks, the production of seven ballets by the world-renowned…

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Mon 10 Nov

Vagabond

The body of a woman is found in a ditch in the French countryside – but what led to the death of this young and…

Classics

Films

1 Nov - 11 Nov

Joseph Conrad and Cinema

As the critic F. R. Leavis put it, Joseph Conrad’s stories ‘invite the cinematographer’. In partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute, Ciné Lumière is screening…

Films

Classics

From 16 Nov

La Reine Margot

+ intro by Le Monde Film Critic Samuel Blumenfeld on 16 Nov

Films

Classics

From 19 Nov

The Sorrow and the Pity

Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important…

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Classics

From 21 Nov

Harry, He’s Here to Help

+ intro by director Dominik Moll on 22 Nov

Films

Classics

25 & 30 Nov

Poem of the Sea

+ intro by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel (King’s College London) on 25 Nov

Films

Classics

From 30 Nov

Red River

John Wayne found one of his greatest roles in Howard Hawks’s first western, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted…

Films

Kids & Families

From 30 Nov

Lord of the Flies

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced…

Films

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From 5 Dec

Sunset Boulevard

An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback.…

Films

Classics

From 7 Dec

The Wind Will Carry Us

Kiarostami’s masterpiece follows a Tehrani filmmaker who poses as an engineer to covertly film the funeral rites of a small village in rural Iran. The…

Films

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14 & 17 Dec

The Southerner

Jean Renoir’s third film during his wartime sojourn in the USA, The Southerner follows the struggles of an idealistic Texas cotton picker who aspires to…

Classics

Films

1 Nov - 11 Nov

Joseph Conrad and Cinema

Next event : Gabrielle
Wed 05 Nov at 18:00

Films

From 6 Sept

Travelling Shots

Next event : Vagabond
Mon 10 Nov at 18:10

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

Kids & Families

Talks

Highlights of the Month

Next event : Joseph Conrad and Cinema
Tue 11 Nov

Festivals & Series

Films

12 - 23 Nov

French Film Festival London 2025

Next event : The Great Arch
Wed 12 Nov at 19:45

Classics

Films

7 Sept - 30 Nov

Ukraine through the Lens of Film History

Next event : Poem of the Sea
Tue 25 Nov at 18:10

Our Annual Festivals

Books & Ideas

Festivals & Series

Films

Talks

5 - 17 May

Beyond Words

Kids & Families

16 - 22 March

South Ken Kids Festival

Books & Ideas

Talks

Thu 5 Feb

Night of Ideas

Edinburgh