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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
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Two young men embrace each other in a dark city skyline.
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Queer 80s: Beyond Gravity + Gay Short Films from New Zealand

Just a couple of years after New Zealand’s decriminalisation of same-sex activity came this charming romance between a neurotic gay man and a cocky Italian, showing alongside two key gay Kiwi shorts.

A woman looks out of a window, peering round the corner, in a black and white image.
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Silent Film & Live Music: Bed and Sofa

This wry sex comedy offers fascinating insights into male-female relations in the supposedly post-bourgeois communal society of Soviet Russia.

A woman looks on as another woman cries in front of her.
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Queer 80s: The Farewell + introduction

A gay woman struggles to cope in the repressive home of her bourgeois father on the eve of WWII in Helsinki in Tuija-Maija Niskanen’s haunting period drama. 

A woman tried to comfort another
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Senior Community Screening: The Farewell + Introduction

Free

A gay woman struggles to cope in the repressive home of her haute bourgeois father on the eve of WWII in Helsinki, with an introduction from film curator Alex Davidson. 

Two women embrace on a tropical beach.
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Queer 80s: Radical Defiance: Queer Brazilian Super-8 Shorts

Three powerful Brazilian short films from the early 1980s explore queer lives in the last years of the military dictatorship, showing in the UK for the first time.

Two topless men embrace each other.
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Queer 80s: Tongues Untied + introduction and poetry

An arresting mix of documentary and performance, Marlon Riggs classic essay film is an intense, unforgettable depiction of black, gay experience in the US. 

The scene of a court is enacted on stage
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ROH Live: Andrea Chenier

Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar's spectacular staging of Giordano's epic historical drama, conducted by long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano.

A young person playing a lute in traditional clothing, against a desert scape.
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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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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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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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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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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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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. 

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
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.