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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 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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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.

A dog and robot walk down the street in New York.
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Relaxed Screening: Robot Dreams

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

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

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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Relaxed Screening: Challengers

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

A person wearing a bandana nad large round glasses shouts next to a person wearing heavy makeup and hair curlers, grimacing.
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Stewart Home's Occasional Film Club: City of Lost Souls +...

The latest iteration of Stewart Home’s Occasional Barbican Film Club took as its starting point Shakespeare Tower, bringing unlikely pairing of two very different examples of queer underground cinema.

Two children eat biscuits on a street in an old photography from mid-20th Century.
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Francis Alÿs: Recreations: Three Films on Children's Play

A trio of films on childhood which form a dialogue with the documentary project Children’s Games, curated in response to our Francis Alÿs: Ricochets exhibition.

A man stands leaning against a wall with one arm. He is wearing a vest and sunglasses indoors. There are film posters behind him.
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Relaxed Screening: The Fall Guy

Ryan Gosling is a down-and-out stuntman tracking down a missing actress in David Leitch's action rom-com.

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Outdoor Cinema: The Grand Budapest Hotel

This darkly hilarious farce is expertly crafted with the distinct visual aesthetic we’ve come to know and love from Wes Anderson, featuring a positively sparkling Ralph Fiennes on spectacular form.

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Outdoor Cinema: Bjork: Biophilia Live

Recorded live at Alexandra Palace in 2013, this is a concert film like no other, as Björk performs songs from her eighth album alongside stunning visuals of natural phenomena.

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Outdoor Cinema: Marie Antoinette

A dreamy historical drama from Sofia Coppola, starring Kirsten Dunst as a queen who spends her days shopping and her nights partying, all against a backdrop of the stunning palace of Versailles.

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Outdoor Cinema: The Boy and the Heron

This beautiful tale from the animation masters at Studio Ghibli follows a boy who journeys to a dreamlike world. As magical as you would expect from writer/director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).

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Outdoor Cinema: Godzilla Vs. Hedorah

Also know as Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster, this bonkers cult film shows the Japanese monster movie genre at its most inventive, blending kaiju carnage, psychedelics and an eco-friendly message.

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Outdoor Cinema: Sign O’ the Times

Prince sets the stage alight in this electrifying film of his 1987 tour, quite simply one of the best concert movies ever made.

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Outdoor Cinema: Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece stars Victor Sjöström as a grumpy professor who embarks on a nostalgic road trip through Swedish countryside with his daughter-in-law.

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Outdoor Cinema: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

This inventive, brilliantly observed and painfully bittersweet romance from writer Charlie Kaufman explores an age-old question through the limitless possibilities of science fiction