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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
Queer 80s
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Two women chat on a boat on a glorious, sunny Mediterranean ocean.
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Cinema

Queer 80s: Quest for Love + Introduction

Helena Nogueira’s rarely screened lesbian romance set across South Africa and a thinly-disguised Mozambique, was released two years before the end of Apartheid. 

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 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 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

A programme 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 with director Amr Gamal. 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 person wearing a bandana nad large round glasses shouts next to a person wearing heavy makeup and hair curlers, grimacing.
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Cinema

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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Cinema

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.