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From 12 Sept

Pépé le moko

The notorious Pépé le moko is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his…

Films

Classics

From 14 Sept

Rosa la Rose, Public Girl

On the streets of Paris, Rosa ‘la rose’ is the belle of Les Halles. With no shortage of clients, she is beloved by her fellow…

Films

Classics

7 & 11 Sept

Battleship Potemkin

A special centenary re-release of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated score by Pet Shop Boys. “The sea, the city of Odesa, the…

Films

Classics

From 30 Aug

I, The Worst of All

A chronicle of the love that dare not speak its name, Bemberg’s film recounts the life of the great seventeenth-century Mexican poet, intellectual, and nun…

Festivals & Series

Films

From 18 Sept

London Spanish Film Festival

Get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Spanish cinema, as we proudly present the 21st edition of the London Spanish Film Festival!…

Films

Festivals & Series

Thu 18 Sept

The Good Handwriting

+ Q&A with director Celia Rico Clavellino & beer reception

Films

Festivals & Series

Thu 18 Sept

Pheasant Island

In the supposedly borderless Europe of the 21st century, one frontier still holds firm—the Bidasoa River, separating Spain from France. At its heart lies Pheasant…

Films

Classics

From 7 Sept

Nobody’s Wife

Made under the military junta, the story of a woman’s desire to escape the family home and create a life outside the system was dangerously…

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 19 Sept

8

+Q&A with director Julio Medem

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 19 Sept

Birth

Lucía is a teenage girl taken by her mother to Peñagrande, a Catholic reformatory for teen mothers-to-be in Madrid, to find a solution for an…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 20 Sept

Morlaix

+ Q&A with director Jaime Rosales

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 20 Sept

Nina

Andrea Jaurrieta’s Nina is a Basque, modern, and intelligent western where emotion and style are masterfully intertwined. With striking cinematography, the film leads us through…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 20 Sept

Salve Maria

Co-writer and director Mar Coll has adapted Basque writer Katixa Agirre’s novel Amek ez dute about Maria, a promising young writer and new mother struggling…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sun 22 Sept

God Sees It

God Sees It is a journey into the creative universe of Oscar Tusquets, one of the most fascinating figures of the last sixty years as…

Films

Classics

From 21 Sept

Stormy Waters

André, the dedicated captain of a tugboat, leads an existence divided between his work on the dangerous Brittany seas and his life at home with…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sun 21 Sept

Glimmers

Isabel’s life takes an unexpected turn the day her daughter Madalen asks her to pay regular visits to Ramón, her ex-husband, who is ill. After…

Films

Festivals & Series

Mon 22 Sept

A Portuguese House

A Geography professor with a particular fondness for paper maps, Fernando embarks on an impromptu trip to Portugal after his wife leaves him without any…

Films

Festivals & Series

Tue 23 Sept

Brothers-in-Law

+ Q&A with filmmaker Luis Aviles and Adriana Paramo & wine reception

Films

Festivals & Series

Tue 23 Sept

Shorts from Galicia

Enjoy a special programme of short films from Galicia.

Films

Festivals & Series

Wed 24 Sept

The Sleeper

+ Q&A with Alvaro Longoria and Jorge Coll

Films

Festivals & Series

Thu 25 Sept

Kill the Jockey

Remo Manfredini is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behaviour is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship with his girlfriend, Abril. On…

Films

Kids & Families

From 28 Sept

The Gold Rush

A calm and content Little Tramp seeks his fortune in the hidden gold mines of the Klondike. All calm is quickly lost, however, when another…

Films

Festivals & Series

Thu 2 Oct

My Grandmother

+ intro by actor and writer Lasha Bakradze and piano accompaniment by John Sweeney

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 3 Oct

Blueberry Dreams

+ Q&A with director Elena Mikaberidze and producer Elene Margvelashvili

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 3 Oct

Holy Electricity

+ Q&A with director Tato Kotetishvili

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 4 Oct

Inner Blooming Springs + Temo Re

+ Q&A with directors Tiku Kobiashvili and Anka Gujabidze

Films

Kids & Families

4 & 29 Oct

Zarafa

This beautiful animation by screenwriters and directors Rémi Bezançon (Le mystère Henri Pick) and Jean-Christophe Lie (Les triplettes de Belleville, Hercules) is inspired by the…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 4 Oct

Lost Killers

+ Q&A with lead actor Lasha Bakradze

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 4 Oct

New Voices: Five Short Films by Emerging Georgian Talents

+ intro by Natalia Jugheli

Films

Festivals & Series

Sun 5 Oct

Crossing

+ Q&A with director Levan Akin

Films

Kids & Families

6 Sept & 5 Oct

Spirited Away

Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious…

Films

Classics

Sun 5 Oct

Applause

+ intro by literary producer and writer Tatevik Ayvazyan

Films

Festivals & Series

Sun 5 Oct

And Then We Danced

Levan Akin was born in Sweden to Georgian parents. It was in 2013, that Akin saw reports about the Tbilisi Pride Parade being under attack…

Films

Festivals & Series

Mon 6 Oct

Imago

+ Q&A with director Déni Oumar Pitsaev in conversation with Nana Ekvtimishvili

Films

Festivals & Series

11 & 27 Oct

Compartment No. 6

Winner of Cannes’ 2021 Grand Prix, Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 reveals the unassailable power of human connection. Set within the confines of…

Films

Kids & Families

Sat 11 Oct

The Most Precious of Cargoes

With superb animation and a score by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, this timeless and deeply moving tale is a powerful reminder that in the…

Films

Classics

From 12 Oct

Pierrot le fou

In Godard’s New Wave classic, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), unhappily married and recently fired from his job, abandons his family and runs off to the Riviera…

Films

Kids & Families

12 & 18 Oct

The Time Masters

Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (La Planète sauvage) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud – aka Mœbius – The Time Masters is…

Films

Classics

From 17 Oct

L’Atalante

A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is…

Films

Classics

From 19 Oct

La Bête humaine

Train engineer Jacques Lantier, played by screen legend Jean Gabin, becomes the lover of Severine, the wife of deputy station master Roubaud. Roubaud overlooks the…

Films

Kids & Families

Sun 10 Oct

Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences

This programme of carefully selected short, animated films will show the diversity of animation technics that make the French animation industry so rich. This selection…

Films

Kids & Families

From 24 Oct

Night of the Zoopocalypse

When a meteorite crashes into Colepepper Zoo, it unleashes a virus that transforms the zoo animals into zombies. Gracie, a quirky young wolf, teams up…

Kids & Families

CinéFamilies

Sat 25 Oct

Preview: Little Amélie

Adapted from Amélie Nothomb’s bestselling autobiography The Character of the Rain, Little Amélie transports us to Japan seen through the eyes of a thriving little…

Films

Classics

Sun 26 Oct

Sambizanga

Produced by the anti-colonial political movement, Movimento Popular de Libertaҫão de Angola (MPLA), Sambizanga is about the struggle for Angolan liberation from Portuguese colonial forces.…

Films

Kids & Families

Thu 30 Oct

Maya Give Me A Title

Maya and her dad (Michel Gondry) live in two different countries. To keep in touch with his daughter and continue to tell her stories, her…

Films

Classics

1 & 3 Nov

Sabotage

Sabotage updates Joseph Conrad’s classic novel The Secret Agent for the shadowy political intrigues of 1930s London. Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a…

Films

Classics

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

Classics

Sat 8 Nov

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary film used Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness as the basis for an epic, hallucinatory fantasia on the Vietnam War.…

Films

Classics

9 & 11 Nov

Almayer’s Folly

Chantal Akerman turned to Joseph Conrad’s lesser-known first novel for her last fiction film, a searing tale of a fortune seeker stranded in Malaysia, who…

Films

Classics

25 & 30 Nov

Poem of the Sea

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

Films

30 Aug - 22 Sept

Cinema Rediscovered on Tour

Next event : I, The Worst of All
Sun 14 Sep at 18:00

Classics

Films

7 Sept - 30 Nov

Ukraine through the Lens of Film History

Next event : Battleship Potemkin
Sun 14 Sep at 12:15

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

Films

Talks

Women Shaping the World

Next event : The Courageous
Mon 15 Sep at 20:00

Festivals & Series

Films

18 - 25 Sept

London Spanish Film Festival

Next event : The Good Handwriting
Thu 18 Sep at 20:15

Festivals & Series

Films

2 - 6 Oct

London Georgian Film Festival

Next event : My Grandmother
Thu 02 Oct at 18:30

CinéFamilies

Festivals & Series

Films

Kids & Families

4 - 31 Oct

Fête du cinéma d’Animation

Next event : Zarafa
Sat 04 Oct at 14:00

Films

From 6 Sept

Travelling Shots

Next event : Spirited Away
Sun 05 Oct at 10:55

Classics

Films

1 Nov - 11 Nov

Joseph Conrad and Cinema

Next event : Sabotage
Sat 01 Nov at 14:00

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

Kids & Families

Talks

Highlights of the Month

Next event : French Courses - Autumn Term
Fri 19 Dec

Our Annual Festivals

Festivals & Series

Films

12 - 23 Nov

French Film Festival

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