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From 23 Jan

Letter from Siberia

This early feature from Chris Marker is a key touchstone in the evolution of his distinctive essayistic style, in which he combines footage shot in…

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25 Jan - 18 March

Celebrating Claudia Cardinale

Over a six-decade career, the late Claudia Cardinale starred in more than 100 films, including many classics of Italian and French cinema. This season will…

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From 10 Jan

Le Mépris

Unusually cast and playfully shot, Godard’s masterly hymn to cinema features Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot as a couple whose marriage begins to fall apart…

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From 11 Jan

Mélodie en sous-sol

Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol is an extremely stylised black and white gangster film in which Charles (Jean Gabin) plans a ‘last’ heist at the…

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From 25 Jan

8½

8½ features filmmaker Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) being besieged by sycophants and collaborators as he struggles to get started on an unwieldy science-fiction epic. He withdraws…

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From 1 Feb

Sandra

Sandra (Claudia Cardinale), a young Italian woman, along with her American husband, returns to her hometown in Tuscany for a ceremony honouring her late father,…

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From 1 Feb

Breathless

The epitome of cinematic cool which inspired a generation of filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott to Lars Von Trier and Terrence Malick, Breathless…

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From 2 Feb

We

The RER B is a train that traverses Paris and its surroundings from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as…

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From 15 Feb

Once Upon a Time in the West

Conflict over a parcel of land with a vital water source, resulting in a standoff between three characters (played by Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards and…

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From 22 Feb

Les Pétroleuses

1888, Bougival Junction (Texas): the French-speaking town is led by Marie Sarrazin (Cardinale). In this comedy-Western, a new family arrives, calling themselves the Millers, but…

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From 1 March

Cartouche

In the 18th century, a young and skilled thief, Dominique (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is outraged by the tyranny of Malichot, the gang leader and defies his…

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10 & 23 March

A Short Film About Killing

As contemplative as it is confrontational, Kieslowski addresses the notion of violence directly. Through a seemingly random murder by Jacek, followed by his state-sanctioned execution,…

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Fri 13 March

The Double Life of Véronique + Kieslowski by The Quay Brothers

A radiant contemplation on intuition, identity, and invisible connection, The Double Life of Véronique traces the lives of two women who have never met and…

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Sat 14 March

The Public Woman

Before he tampered with Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot in Mad Love, Andrzej Zulawski made The Public Woman, a startling, indirect adaptation of another work by the…

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From 15 March

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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17 & 25 March

A Short Film About Love

+ Q&A with actor Grazyna Szapolowska on 17 March

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From 22 March

The Facts of Murder

+ intro by film critic and programmer Roberto Oggiano on 22 March

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From 29 March

Goodbye and Amen

John Dannahay (Tony Musante, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is planning to overthrow an African government. But his…

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From 5 Apr

The Iron Prefect

In 1925, Mussolini sent Cesare Mori to Sicily to occupy the position of Prefect. His mission was to fight the Mafia. The fascist regime was…

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From 6 Sept

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Kinoteka Polish Film Festival

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