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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
Queer 80s
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Three women in waitress outfits blow flour above a bowl.
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Cinema

Waitress: The Musical

The musical tale of a small-town waitress whose live is thrown in to disarray. 

zone of interest
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer examines evil through the prism of everyday life for a commandant's family living in the shadow of Auschwitz. 

A group of people in theatrical period dress stand in a circle in a darkly lit space.
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Inside My Heart + director ScreenTalk

Saskia Boddeke explores the rehearsal of movement and speech amongst an ensemble of neurodivergent and disabled actors staging a strange and beautiful fairy tale.

Two men and a woman cuddle on a sofa in soft orange light.
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Cinema

Preview: Kinds of Kindness + ScreenTalk with Yorgos...

Fresh from the release of Poor Things, the enigmatic director presents his latest film starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe, plus a ScreenTalk with Yorgos Lanthimos himself and Plemons.

Two young people look romantically in to each other's eyes whilst leaning against a window frame showing a city skyline.
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Cinema

Queer 80s: Coming Out + ScreenTalk with actor Dirk Kummer

An East German teacher has a sexual awakening following a fateful night in a gay bar in this powerful story of love and self-acceptance, originally released on the night the Berlin Wall fell. 

A man and a girl sit on a bench in a park, looking up to the sky and smiling.
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Perfect Days

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

A person with their hair in a bun puts on mascara in a bathroom mirror.
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Cinema

SAFAR: Manity/Machtat + Online ScreenTalk

SAFAR Film Festival presents a double bill of screenings examining gender, expectation and tradition, including the UK premiere of Machtat by Sonia Ben Slama.

A dog and robot walk down the street in New York.
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Cinema

Family Film Club: Robot Dreams (PG) + Free pre-film workshop

A dog and a robot romp around New York in the 1980s in this animated comedy. 

Two men with black rubber headdresses stand in front of a yellow truck.
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Cinema

SAFAR: A Visit To Vanguard Cinema + ScreenTalk

Part of two festival events showcasing Sudanese films spanning from the 1970s and 1980s to contemporary works reflecting the aftermath of the 2019 revolution. 

A woman holds a young child on a busy bus.
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Cinema

SAFAR: INSHALLAH A BOY + ScreenTalk

After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

Two women stand in a kitchen, one faces the window with lowered eyes, the other stands in front of the fridge watching the other.
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Cinema

SAFAR: Palestinian Tales + Introduction

A shorts programme of stories about and set in Palestine.

Three young children stand by a wall looking out over a desert city.
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Cinema

SAFAR: The Burdened + ScreenTalk

Join SAFAR Film Festival as they round off their ninth edition with The Burdened, followed by an online Q&A. The film receives its UK premiere as part of the festival.

A man stands in front of a fruit stall with his arms folded across his chest.
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Cinema

Cinema Restored: Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) + Conversation with...

A rare screening of Jia Zhangke’s debut feature Xiao Wu (Pickpocket), his realist drama, focusing on the shifting politics and attitudes of China at the cusp of a new century.

An illustration by Quentin Blake, depicting characters Jack and Nancy floating through a forest scene, using a red umbrella as a parachute.
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Cinema Classical music

Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures with the BBC SO

Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays a live accompaniment to two wonderful animated adventures. 

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Palmer conductor
Stefano Cabrera composer
A hand holds a photograph showing a child in uniform standing in Tiananmen Square. Both the earlier photo and person holding the image are stood in the same location.
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Cinema

Blink of an Eye: Beijing’s Urbanisation on Film

A selection of short documentary and experimental films that trace urban construction and development in Beijing and its surrounding areas across five decades.