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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

From 24 Oct

Night of the Zoopocalypse

+ free colouring session on 31 Oct

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

13 & 18 Oct

The Way We Were

Set against the political backdrops of the lead up to World War II and later McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find…

Films

Kids & Families

Sun 19 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

Classics

Sun 26 Oct

Sambizanga

+ exclusive content featuring Sarah Maldoror talking about the film in 1974

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

Classics

From 28 Oct

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…

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

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…

CinéFamilies

Festivals & Series

Films

Special Screenings

4 - 31 Oct

Fête du cinéma d’Animation

Films

Classics

1 & 3 Nov

Sabotage

+ intro by Prof. Emeritus Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, London) on 1 Nov

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

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

Festivals & Series

Thu 6 Nov

Hero

In 1909, revolutionary Ahn Jung-geun (Chung Sung-hwa) formed the ‘Danji Alliance’ with his comrades and headed for Harbin. One of their members, information broker Seol-hee…

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 7 Nov

Hi-Five

The superhero saga gets a distinctly Korean twist in the high-octane, high-spirited romp Hi-Five, the latest from Swing Kids director Kang Hyoung-chul. When a mysterious…

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

Festivals & Series

From 12 Nov

Wild Foxes

At a sports boarding school, Camille, a promising teenage boxer, narrowly survives a fatal accident. After his swift recovery, an inexplicable pain and a growing…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 12 Nov

Alpha

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old girl, lives with her mother. Their world begins to collapse the day she returns from school with a tattoo etched on…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 12 Nov

A Private Life

When sophisticated psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) learns of the death of one of her patients, she is deeply troubled. Convinced it was murder, she…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 12 Nov

The Great Arch

+ Q&A with director Stéphane Demoustier & actor Claes Bang on 12 November

Festivals & Series

Films

12 - 23 Nov

French Film Festival London 2025

With many UK premieres, the selection showcases the variety of voices, forms and budgets that altogether represent the wealth and diversity of French cinema production.…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 13 Nov

Yes!

+ Q&A with director Nadav Lapid moderated by Philippa Kowarsky on 13 November

Films

Festivals & Series

From 13 Nov

Nouvelle Vague

Paris, 1959. A young and rebellious director begins work on his first feature. His name is Jean-Luc Godard, and the film will be Breathless. With…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 13 Nov

It Was Just an Accident

Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eghbal enters…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 13 Nov

The Ice Tower

The 1970s. Jeanne, a runaway, finds refuge in a film studio where The Snow Queen is being shot, and falls under the spell of Cristina…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 14 Nov

Dog 51

After BAC Nord and Novembre, Cédric Jimenez continues his exploration of the police, with Gilles Lellouche and Adèle Exarchopoulos leading the cast. In the near…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 14 Nov

Colours of Time

+ virtual Q&A with director Cédric Klapisch on 23 November (TBC )

Films

Festivals & Series

From 14 Nov

Love Me Tender

One late summer, Clémence (Vicky Krieps) tells her ex-husband that she now desires women. When he gains custody of their son, her world is turned…

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 14 Nov

Have a Nice Day

Carte blanche to FIDMarseille: The screening on 14 November (18.45) will be introduced by Cyril Neyrat (artistic director of FIDMarseille)

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 14 Nov

Tell Her That I Love Her

+ Q&A with director/actor Romane Bohringer moderated by director Sophie Fiennes on 14 November

Films

Festivals & Series

From 14 Nov

A Magnificent Life

With A Magnificent Life, Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-vous, The Illusionist) crafts a beautifully depicted biopic of iconic writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol. While living in…

Films

Kids & Families

From 15 Nov

Arco

As children, we all thought rainbows were magical. In Ugo Bienvenu's colourful time travelling adventure, Arco, a 10-year-old boy, comes from the future and lands…

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 15 Nov

Thousands of Years of Absence

Carte blanche to FIDMarseille: Screening followed by a Q&A with director Philippe Rouy and Cyril Neyrat (artistic director of FIDMarseille)

Films

Festivals & Series

From 15 Nov

The Voice of Hind Rajab

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an urgent call: a six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, begging for rescue.…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 15 Nov

Black to the Future

Under cover of secrecy, the first African space mission is preparing for take-off. Drawn from the continent and its diaspora, the crew will explore planet…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 15 Nov

Sirât

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar, the daughter and sister…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 15 Nov

The Girl in the Snow

+ Q&A with director Louise Hémont on 15 November

Films

Festivals & Series

From 15 Nov

Ari

+ Q&A with director Léonor Serraille on 19 November (TBC)

Films

Kids & Families

From 16 Nov

The Songbird’s Secret

+ recorded Q&A intro with director Antoine Lanciaux

Films

Festivals & Series

From 14 Nov

Enzo

Enzo, 16, defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship, a path far removed from the prestigious future they had envisioned for him.…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 16 Nov

The Little Sister

Hafsia Herzi directs a moving coming-of-age drama where cultural identity and emerging sexuality struggle to reconcile. Seventeen-year-old Fatima is the youngest of three daughters and…

Films

Classics

From 16 Nov

La Reine Margot

Margot (Isabelle Adjani) is one of several in line to inherit the crown in France, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are jockeying for power. Margot's…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 17 Nov

Kaamelott – Second Installment (Part 1)

Following the wildly popular eponymous TV series and the film Kaamelott: First Installment, Alexandre Astier dives back into his brilliantly offbeat take on the legend…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 18 Nov

Love Letters

In three months, Céline’s wife Nadia will give birth to their first daughter. As the co-parent, Céline must face the hurdles of the adoption system…

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…

Films

Festivals & Series

From 19 Nov

The Stranger

Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet employee and solitary settler in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The following day he…

Films

Classics

From 21 Nov

Harry, He’s Here to Help

+ intro by director Dominik Moll on 22 Nov

Films

Festivals & Series

Fri 21 Nov

Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

+ Q&A with director Claire Simon moderated by professor Akane Kawakami on 21 November

Films

Festivals & Series

From 22 Nov

Case 137

+ Q&A with director Dominik Moll on 22 November

Films

Festivals & Series

Sat 22 Nov

Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Founded in 1930 in central France, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding 3 Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. From the market…

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

CinéFamilies

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…

Festivals & Series

Films

Special Screenings

17 Oct - 3 Nov

Black History Month

Next event : Souleymane’s Story
Thu 23 Oct at 20:30

Classics

Films

26 Sept - 18 Oct

Tribute to Robert Redford

Next event : The Way We Were
Sat 25 Oct at 18:00

CinéFamilies

Festivals & Series

Films

Kids & Families

4 - 31 Oct

Fête du cinéma d’Animation

Next event : Zarafa
Wed 29 Oct at 12:30

Films

From 6 Sept

Travelling Shots

Next event : Zarafa
Wed 29 Oct at 12:30

Classics

Films

1 Nov - 11 Nov

Joseph Conrad and Cinema

Next event : Sabotage
Sat 01 Nov at 14:00

Festivals & Series

Films

6 - 7 Nov

London Korean Film Festival

Next event : Hero
Thu 06 Nov at 18:15

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

Kids & Families

Talks

Highlights of the Month

Next event : Travelling Shots
Fri 07 Nov

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

Films

Talks

Women Shaping the World

Next event : A Private Life
Wed 12 Nov at 16:30

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