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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
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A young person playing a lute in traditional clothing, against a desert scape.
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Cinema

Queer 80s: Ashik Kerib + Introduction

Sergei Parajanov’s last film, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze, is an Azeri-Turkish love story about a wandering minstrel forced to roam the world for 1001 nights to win the hand of his beloved. 

Two boys stand opposite each other wearing mixed martial arts uniforms, in front of a desert city.
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Cinema

Refugee Week: We Dare to Dream + ScreenTalk

As the Refugee Olympic Team prepares to compete at the Tokyo Olympics, We Dare to Dream chronicles their hopes and desires as they fight for a better life, plus a ScreenTalk with the director.

Two people stand in front of a mirror in a darkly lit bathroom.
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Cinema

Queer 80s: Law of Desire + introduction

A deeply twisted gay romance is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar first truly great film, a sexy, dangerous thriller with superb performances from Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura.

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. 

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. 

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 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.