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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 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.

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Cinema

Members' Screening: The Bikeriders

Members' event

Austin Butler and Jodie Comer bring to life the hard-edged motorcycle gang tearing up Illinois from Danny Lyon's 1967 photobook.

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

Senior Community Screening: Perfect Days

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

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.

Two men bathe in a night pool.
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Cinema

Night Fever + ScreenTalk

An evening of experimental film, marking the publication of the new book Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark (Walther Koenig, 2024).  

Image of man leaning against wall by a window
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Cinema Talks & events

Cardboard Citizens: More Than One Story + ScreenTalk

More Than One Story is a series of nine monologue films exploring the multiple realities of homelessness. Join us for the first public screening and a panel discussion with author Malorie Blackman.

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

Relaxed Screening: Robot Dreams

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

A middle aged man stares directly ahead, with stints in his eyes holding them open.
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Cinema

Accelerate or Die + ScreenTalk with Jake Chapman &...

 Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism? 

A man and a woman sit on a divan on stage laughing with each other.
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Cinema

NT Live: Present Laughter

Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward's provocative comedy about an actor's whirlwind of fame, sex, love and panic.

Two men stand on the stairs of a beach chatting, over a stormy sea.
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Cinema

blur: To the End

Depicting the extraordinary and emotional return of blur, captured during the year in which they made a surprise return with their first record in 8 years, the #1 album ‘The Ballad of Darren’.

A young couple lie in tall grass, gazing into each other's eyes.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Banel & Adama

A young couple living in remote Senegal, whose star-crossed love is in conflict with family tradition, face a new challenge as drought hits their village.