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…
Films CinéFamilies 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 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 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 Kids & Families From 7 Sept Mr Hulot’s Holiday Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle…
Films Classics From 14 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…
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 Based on the novel by Valencian writer Rafael Chirbes, the film tells the story of Ana and her family in a small village. The scars…
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 Festivals & Series Fri 19 Sept 8 Octavio and Adela seem destined to be separated by life, yet irresistibly drawn to one another by the invisible force of chance. Across eight chapters,…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Shorts from Galicia Enjoy a special programme of short films from Galicia.
Films Festivals & Series Tue 23 Sept Brothers-in-Law Two years ago, the Ribeiro brothers-in-law got themselves tangled up with a Portuguese trafficker—and walked away with a large amount of cash and and an…
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 Upon its release in June 1925, The Gold Rush was accompanied by a wealth of anecdotes: In some European theatres, projectionists were forced to rewind…
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 Sat 4 Oct New Voices: Five Short Films by Emerging Georgian Talents + intro by Natalia Jugheli
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 Inner Blooming Springs + Temo Re + Q&A with directors Tiku Kobiashvili and Anka Gujabidze
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 Kids & Families Sat 10 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 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 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 26 & 30 Nov Poem of the Sea + intro by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel (King’s College London) on 26 Nov
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Kids & Families Talks Highlights of the Month Next event : Savages Wed 27 Aug at 15:00
Films 30 Aug - 22 Sept Cinema Rediscovered on Tour Next event : I, The Worst of All Sat 30 Aug at 20:10
Classics Films 7 Sept - 30 Nov Ukraine through the Lens of Film History Next event : Battleship Potemkin Sun 07 Sep at 15:50
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 - 5 Oct London Georgian Film Festival Next event : My Grandmother Thu 02 Oct at 18:30