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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 distorted background has red lights shone across it, in a warped image.
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Chronic Youth Film Festival: Live DJ Set & Collage Making

A free event with a live DJ set by DIGITALSAINT and collage making workshop, tools provided. 

A woman with heavy makeup takes a selfie in front of a burning building, surrounded by masked people.
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Chronic Youth Film Festival: Anhell69

Seamlessly blending fiction and reality, Theo Montoya’s intoxicating debut feature creates a ‘trans cinema’ that follows no rules. 

A man looks down to the side with a smile, holding his necklace.
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NT Live: Vanya

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Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Two women in gym clothes sit on the floor of a boxing ring, holding hands.
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Members' Screening: Preview: Love Lies Bleeding

Members' event

Rose Glass directs a steamy tale of love and revenge with Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Dave Franco and Ed Harris, in a preview screening exclusively for Barbican Members! 

A dancer poses in Swan Lake
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ROH Live: Swan Lake

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

An oil spill interacts with a hand nad a seascape in a warped image.
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Chronic Youth Film Festival Shorts: Joyful Lands,... + Q&A

A collection of shorts exploring transgressive acts of reclamation, from land to gazes, followed by a live Q&A with Laisul Hoque and Maz Murray.

A man sits naked in a chair of a dark room flanked by two women. There are weapons on the wall behind them.
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Chronic Youth Film Festival: Nowhere + Discussion

Follow Araki’s apathetic, eccentric, and sexually uninhibited teens as they traverse Los Angeles to get to the hottest party of the year!

A man and woman embrace
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Senior Community Screening: Sweet Sue

Director Leo Leigh directs Maggie O'Neill in this tender comedy-drama about a women, who delves back into the dating game after some time away. 

A young woman looks forward towards the camera in an aged, black and white photograph.
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Open City Documentary Festival: Restored Shorts

Discover the groundbreaking shorts of Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003), Afro-Cuban filmmaker, painter, and poet. 

A crop of a film reel, depicting three black and white images of a man looking through a film camera that is mounted on a tripod. The central image has a bullet hole in it.
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Open City Documentary Festival: Landrián

"Landrián" is a revealing documentary uncovering the lost narrative of Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba's pioneering black filmmaker.

Two men lie naked in bed together, kissing and embracing tenderly.
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Gay Men’s Guide to Safer Sex 97 Director’s Cut + ScreenTalk

Time travel back to 1997 and see a new cut of Rob Falconer’s landmark film, a frank and unapologetically erotic guide to enjoying safe same-sex when resources for gay men were hard to access.

A man and a woman stand in an urban American street, looking forward.
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The Devil Finds Work: If Beale Street Could Talk +...

We kick off this cinema season with a screening of Barry Jenkins' adaptation of James Baldwin's novel, with a ScreenTalk, plus an exclusive recorded intro & commentary by Barry Jenkins.

A very happy looking snail sits atop a whale.
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Family Film Club: The Snail and the Whale + Room on the...

This delightful Donaldson double is the perfect chance to introduce your youngest film fans to the big screen experience!

A black and white photograph of a group of men queuing up outside of an old movie theatre.
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Celluloid Underground Q+A with Ehsan Khoshbakht

A captivating exploration of film culture's resilience in the face of oppression, masterfully crafted by Ehsan Khoshbakht, followed by a Q&A with Rebecca Harrison.

An image of the Roman colosseum, with yellow and red colours overlaid and circular swirls framing the image
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BBC SO Total Immersion: Voyage to Cythera (15)

Directed by Frank Scheffer, Voyage to Cythera explores Italian composer Luciano Berio's tribute to Gustav Mahler.