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From 25 Jan

Borsalino

In 1930 Marseille two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to…

Films

Kids & Families

Sat 25 Jan

Au revoir les enfants

Garnering no less than 7 César awards including Best Film and Best Director, Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical film is one of the greatest accounts on the…

Films

Classics

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…

Films

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From 26 Jan

Inspector Lavardin

After Cop au vin (1984), Inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is back on form to investigate the murder of a famous Catholic writer, whose widow…

Films

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From 2 Feb

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…

Films

Classics

From 8 Feb

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the…

Films

Classics

9 & 11 Feb

Royal Affairs in Versailles

This film retraces the history of the Palace of Versailles from its origins until the French Revolution. Produced in the aftermath of WWII, from which…

Films

Classics

From 10 Feb

Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton + La Paresse

In an intimately woven dialogue between Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton, the two evoke, in different voices, Sonia’s trajectory and relation with music. She says…

Films

Classics

From 14 Feb

Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles + La Paresse

Akerman's contribution to the landmark television series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge (which also yielded Claire Denis' US Go Home and…

Films

Classics

From 16 Feb

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…

Films

Classics

From 16 Feb

Les Rendez-vous d’Anna

Chantal Akerman’s narrative follow-up to her international breakthrough, Jeanne Dielman, is a penetrating portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise and a mesmerising odyssey through a…

Films

Classics

From 22 Feb

Night and Day

Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the…

Films

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From 23 Feb

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Screenings on February will be introduced by film critic and programmer Roberto Oggiano and followed by a discussion with the audience, as part of our…

Films

Classics

From 2 Mar

Golden Eighties + Rue Mallet-Stevens

The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love…

Films

Classics

From 8 March

On Tour with Pina Bausch

For five weeks, Chantal Akerman followed Pina Bausch and her dancers from the Tanztheater Wuppertal to Venice, Milan, and Avignon. Through scenes taken from the…

Films

Classics

From 8 March

Je, tu, il, elle

In her first narrative feature, Akerman offers a startling exploration of alienation, vulnerability and the search for connection. In a performance at once daringly exposed…

Films

Classics

From 18 Mar

A Couch in New York

Akerman’s stab at commercial cinema sees Juliette Binoche as Béatrice, a young, vibrant Parisian dancer who swaps apartments with Henry (William Hurt), a solipsistic Manhattan…

Films

Classics

From 30 March

The Captive

Loosely inspired by Proust’s The Prisoner, Akerman’s hypnotic exploration of erotic obsession circles around the relationship between the seemingly pliant Ariane and the disturbingly jealous…

Films

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From 5 Apr

From the East

Following the demolition of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman captures the reality and mutation of former Soviet territories, shot from summer through to winter in…

Arts

Books & Ideas

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Talks

6 June - 21 Sept

Women Shaping the World

Next event : Emmanuelle
Thu 23 Jan at 20:30

Arts

Books & Ideas

Classical Music

24 Jan - 1 April 2025

Versailles, In Every Sense

Next event : The Flood
Fri 24 Jan at 20:00

Festivals & Series

Films

24 Jan - 27 Feb

Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau

Next event : A Real Pain
Fri 24 Jan at 18:20

Festivals & Series

Films

13 Oct - 25 Feb

Alain Delon: An Odyssey

Next event : Borsalino
Sat 25 Jan at 11:00

Classics

Festivals & Series

Films

From 10 Nov

Claude Chabrol – Behind the Mirror: Family Secrets

Next event : Chabrol The Anticonformist
Sun 26 Jan at 12:00

Classics

Festivals & Series

Films

5 Feb - 11 Apr

Revisiting Chantal Akerman

Next event : Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton: Dialogues
Wed 05 Feb at 19:30

Classics

Films

5 Nov - 28 Jan

Finally Sunday Film Club

Next event : The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Sun 23 Feb at 11:30

Our Annual Festivals

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Talks

9 - 19 May

Beyond Words

Kids & Families

18 - 24 Nov

South Ken Kids Festival

Books & Ideas

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Thu 6 Feb

Night of Ideas

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