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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
Queer 80s
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A man and a girl sit on a bench in a park, looking up to the sky and smiling.
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Perfect Days

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Kôji Yakusho teaches the art of appreciating the everyday in this meditative drama from Wim Wenders.

A young, tired man looks ahead in the desert, in the glaring sun.
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Io Capitano

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Two young boys who leave Senegal for Europe are faced with the horrific reality that immigrants experience in the desert and beyond, in Matteo Garone's deeply moving masterpiece.

Amy Winehouse stands about to perform
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Back to Black

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Marisa Abela brings to life the story of the one and only, London girl, Amy Winehouse, in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic.

A journalist in a bullet proof vest looks out in the night, standing in front of yellow lights.
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Civil War

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In a near-distant future, a group of photo-journalists try to navigate American during the outbreak of Civil War, by Alex Garland (Ex-Machina).

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
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Challengers

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Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

A man in a dark room stares directly forward.
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Stephen

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A semi-fictional film-within-a-film on the lived experience of addiction and mental health, by visual artist Melanie Manchot.

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
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Parent and Baby Screening: Challengers

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Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

A man looks down to the side with a smile, holding his necklace.
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NT Live: Vanya

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Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Two women in gym clothes sit on the floor of a boxing ring, holding hands.
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Members' Screening: Preview: Love Lies Bleeding

Members' event

Rose Glass directs a steamy tale of love and revenge with Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Dave Franco and Ed Harris, in a preview screening exclusively for Barbican Members! 

A dancer poses in Swan Lake
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Cinema

ROH Live: Swan Lake

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

An oil spill interacts with a hand nad a seascape in a warped image.
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Chronic Youth Film Festival Shorts: Joyful Lands,... + Q&A

A collection of shorts exploring transgressive acts of reclamation, from land to gazes, followed by a live Q&A with Laisul Hoque and Maz Murray.

A man sits naked in a chair of a dark room flanked by two women. There are weapons on the wall behind them.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival: Nowhere + Discussion

Follow Araki’s apathetic, eccentric, and sexually uninhibited teens as they traverse Los Angeles to get to the hottest party of the year!

A man and woman embrace
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Sweet Sue

Director Leo Leigh directs Maggie O'Neill in this tender comedy-drama about a women, who delves back into the dating game after some time away. 

A young woman looks forward towards the camera in an aged, black and white photograph.
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Cinema

Open City Documentary Festival: Restored Shorts

Discover the groundbreaking shorts of Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003), Afro-Cuban filmmaker, painter, and poet. 

A crop of a film reel, depicting three black and white images of a man looking through a film camera that is mounted on a tripod. The central image has a bullet hole in it.
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Open City Documentary Festival: Landrián

"Landrián" is a revealing documentary uncovering the lost narrative of Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba's pioneering black filmmaker.