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From 20 Oct

L’Eclisse

In this sumptuous black and white film, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal) for a confident and ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon).…

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From 13 Oct

Purple Noon

Mesmerising to watch, saturated in light and colour, and topped by Delon at his iciest, Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) is a terrific treat. In this…

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Sat 26 Oct

Two Films by Djibril Diop Mambéty

Film Africa presents the first two instalments of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty’s uncompleted trilogy of short films called Contes des Petites Gens (Tales of…

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Sun 27 Oct

Chronicle of the Years of Fire

This epic semi-autobiographical film recounting the Algerian uprising won its director the first Palme d’or in Cannes for an African film: ‘I tried to recount,…

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From 15 Oct

The Sicilian Clan

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in…

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Sun 27 Oct

Ouaga: Capital of Cinema

The documentary will be preceded by Moustapha Alassane’s short film The Return of an Adventurer and introduced by Mohamed Challouf.

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Mon 28 Oct

Mandabi

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1968 and considered the first feature-length film in an African language, Mandabi is regarded…

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Mon 28 Oct

The Knife Woman

The screening will be preceded by Bassori‘s short film On the Dune of Solitude

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Wed 30 Oct

Emitai

Emitai is a deceptively simple story about the resistance, and a strong statement from Sembene about the forms of oppression practised by the French in…

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Thu 31 Oct

Camp de Thiaroye

Winner of the 1988 Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1988, and featuring brilliant performances from the excellent cast, this uncompromising historical epic…

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Fri 1 Nov

A Trio of Short Films

Discover a programme of short films recently restored in 2K thanks to the support of Orange Studio, Cinémathèque Afrique, in collaboration with PSV Films and…

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Fri 1 Nov

Alyam Alyam

Alyam Alyam captures the life of land workers in the Moroccan countryside. Young man, Abdelwahad becomes the principal breadwinner of the family upon his father’s…

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Sat 2 Nov

Waiting for Happiness

Introduced by filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako

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From 10 Nov

Le Samouraï

The story of a solitary hit man increasingly ensnared in a web of harassment and betrayal Le Samouraï is the most sombre and poetic of all…

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From 15 Nov

A Story of Women

In her second film with Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert stars as Marie Latour, a mother-of-two-turned-abortionist who tries to make ends meet in Nazi-occupied France. Based on…

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From 17 Nov

The Unvanquished

Against the background of the Algerian War of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon) plays a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the…

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From 15 Dec

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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From 12 Jan

The Love Cage

René Clément’s Les Félins is a brilliantly over-the-top gangster-murder-mystery medley set on the Côte d'Azur and starring French sensation Alain Delon as Marc, a small-time…

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19 & 21 Jan

La Piscine

While on holiday near St Tropez, Marianne and Jean-Paul enjoy lazing and making love around the pool. But things take a chillier turn when Marianne’s…

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From 26 Jan

The Red Circle

Fresh out of prison, master thief Corey (Alain Delon) finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing paths with a notorious…

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From 2 Fev

Mr Klein

In this Kafkaesque tale set in 1942 in Nazi occupied Paris, Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is a prosperous art dealer who finds himself mysteriously confused…

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Women Shaping the World

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Tue 22 Oct at 20:30

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Tue 22 Oct at 18:30

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The Cinema of Marguerite Duras

Next event : Nathalie Granger
Tue 22 Oct at 18:30

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Alain Delon: An Odyssey

Next event : Purple Noon
Thu 24 Oct at 18:15

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Sat 26 Oct at 14:00

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