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…
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…
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 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 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 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
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