Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Programme
Flang meets Darwin
Charles Darwin ('On the Origin of Species') informs Flang ('Superstar of AI Art') that there is absolutely no future for her art. She strongly disagrees and threatens to put her prices up.
UK 2025 Dir: Dog & Rabbit Animation 2'00
Fried!
As Dev drives home from a mysterious, ageing nuclear facility, he becomes stranded at an isolated emu farm run by old mystic lesbians. Suspicious of their intentions, Dev fears they will sacrifice him at the local stone circle.
UK 2025 Dir: Lizzie Watts 9'55
The Dog in the Long Grass
Haunted by a glimpse of Death in the form of a black dog, a man embarks on a desperate search across the Sussex landscape to ask a single, unanswered question.
UK 2025 Dir: Seb Cox 5’00
Angry Cars
In the brutal chaos of life on the London roads, cars clash, flirt, and fume in this savage reflection of humanity’s impatience and absurdity.
UK 2025 Dir: Shaun Clark 6'55
Film Film
A print shop owner with seasonal depression becomes obsessed with copying the life of his new customer, an extravagant jungle explorer, based on his film photographs.
UK 2025 Dir: Arturs Voblikovs 12'05
Steeping
Strangers ponder our attitudes towards death and dying - reflecting on how a conversation over tea and coffee at a ‘Death Cafe’ might make broaching the subject a little less terrifying.
UK 2025 Dir: Eilidh Nicoll 3'20
The Eating of an Orange
A woman living in a world of strict conformity is given an orange. She has never seen an orange. Through her sensual exploration of the fruit she unlocks a luscious realm of orgasmic juice and copulating slugs. But will she follow her desires, or will convention win?
UK 2024 Dir: May Kindred-Boothby 7'30
Another Foggy Day
Doris, a once-vibrant cardiologist, struggles with Alzheimer’s, her world increasingly clouded with memory-loss. With her daughter’s care and an AI voiced assistant, Doris regains brief clarity.
UK 2025 Dir: Mingqi Yang 8'00
How to Build a Sand Castle
A tender, hand-painted metaphor for shedding shame and the journey of queer self discovery.
Ecuador, UK 2025 Dir: Nour Khamis 4'20
Statue in the Garden
Didi moves into an unkempt house in Stoke-on-Trent. Whilst feeling ill at ease in this unfamiliar environment, she comes across a curious statue in the garden. This enchanting object helps Didi to appreciate the heritage of her new neighbourhood through an unexpected journey back in time.
UK 2025 Dir: Qianhui Yu 7'40
Existential Greg
A cat goes on a journey toward spiritual enlightenment.
UK 2025 Dir: Will Anderson 9'20
The Last Gammon
Dave is on a mission to find the last gammon in London for his bird's brekkie, and nothing — not even the impending apocalypse — can stop him.
UK 2025 Dir: Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood 9'30
Explore the festival
Let our screens bring you closer
So come for a date, come solo, come with your grandparents, come with your little one... And let our screens bring you closer.
Cinemas
Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
