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13 & 19 July

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 18 July

The Kingdom

Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where…

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From 13 June

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

The hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions Agathe finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane…

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From 11 July

The Other Way Around

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their break-up - like a…

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From 18 July

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

+ Q&A with Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Zita Hanrot on 18 July

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Classics

From 13 July

Code Unknown

In Code Unknown, the first of Haneke’s many films made in France and a brilliant multi-strand narrative, the director diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe…

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Kids & Families

From 19 July

Savages

Preview screenings in July

Films

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From 8 May

Ocean with David Attenborough

This compelling documentary takes viewers on a breath-taking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise,…

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Classics

From 11 July

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

In 1976, Francis Ford Coppola and his cast, crew and family ventured into the Filipino jungle to make a masterpiece. But the production of Apocalypse…

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From 6 July

Hidden

Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt. Anne and Georges, a middle-class couple working in TV…

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20 & 23 July

Ran

One of the most important and influential film makers in cinema history, Akira Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. His final…

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From 27 Aug

Oslo Stories: Dreams

Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her…

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From 27 Aug

Oslo Stories: Sex

Two men, both in heterosexual marriages, have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity. One has a…

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From 27 Aug

Oslo Stories: Love

Marianne, a pragmatic doctor, and Tor, a compassionate nurse, are both avoiding conventional relationships. One evening, after a blind date, Marianne encounters Tor on the…

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From 27 Aug

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

A stirring chronicle of Fatma Hassona, a Gaza Journalist who was killed before the film premiered in Cannes in May 2025, by Sepideh Farsi, the…

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From 27 Aug

Young Mothers

+ Q&A with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

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From 28 Aug

Materialists

In the latest film from director Celine Song (Past Lives), Lucy (Dakota Johnson), a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the…

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From 31 Aug

Amadeus

In the sumptuous world of eighteenth-century Vienna, Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic young prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.…

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From 4 Sept

The Courageous

+ Q&A with director Jasmin Gordon on 4 September

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From 5 Sept

In The Nguyen Kitchen

First-time feature filmmaker Stéphane Ly-Cuong blends a heady cocktail of musical theatre, Vietnamese cuisine and second-generation tension to create a bitter-sweet musical comedy which tells…

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From 16 Sept

Ghost Trail

+ Q&A with Jonathan Millet on 16 Sept

Films

Kids & Families

20 & 21 Sept

Heidi Rescue of the Lynx

A timeless classic reimagined for a new generation, combining breath-taking visuals, thrilling adventure, and a powerful environmental message, from the writer of The Queen’s Corgi…

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Women Shaping the World

Next event : Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Fri 18 Jul at 17:50

Festivals & Series

The Earth, Here and Now

Next event : Ocean with David Attenborough
Sat 19 Jul at 17:20

Classics

Films

6 June - 25 July

Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective

Next event : Hidden
Sun 20 Jul at 19:05

Classics

Films

12 - 24 July

Summer with Brigitte Bardot

Next event : The Woman and the Puppet
Mon 21 Jul at 18:00

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Highlights of the Month

Next event : French Courses - Summer Term
Sat 30 Aug

Our Annual Festivals

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12 - 23 Nov

French Film Festival

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5 - 17 May

Beyond Words

Kids & Families

16 - 22 March

South Ken Kids Festival

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Thu 5 Feb

Night of Ideas

Edinburgh