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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…

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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…

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From 18 Oct

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s…

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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…

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Sun 26 Oct

Sambizanga

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

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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…

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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…

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1 & 3 Nov

Sabotage

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

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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…

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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…

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Sat 8 Nov

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

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

Films

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9 & 11 Nov

Almayer’s Folly

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

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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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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…

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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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From 21 Nov

Harry, He’s Here to Help

+ intro by director Dominik Moll on 22 Nov

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25 & 30 Nov

Poem of the Sea

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

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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…

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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.…

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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…

Festivals & Series

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Special Screenings

17 Oct - 3 Nov

Black History Month

Next event : Souleymane’s Story
Tue 21 Oct at 20:10

Classics

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26 Sept - 18 Oct

Tribute to Robert Redford

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

Films

From 6 Sept

Travelling Shots

Next event : Zarafa
Wed 29 Oct at 12:30

Classics

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1 Nov - 11 Nov

Joseph Conrad and Cinema

Next event : Sabotage
Sat 01 Nov at 14:00

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Next event : Travelling Shots
Fri 07 Nov

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12 - 23 Nov

French Film Festival London 2025

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

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7 Sept - 30 Nov

Ukraine through the Lens of Film History

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

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5 - 17 May

Beyond Words

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16 - 22 March

South Ken Kids Festival

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Thu 5 Feb

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