What’s on

15 Jan –3 Feb 2019

Now in its 42nd year, Mime Festival returns to the Barbican with four captivating theatre shows and two film events in the cinema, spanning the spectrum of contemporary visual performance.

5 Feb –10 Dec 2019

Reality and fiction come together in a series of films and talks that uncovers the connections between science and cinema.

6 –31 Mar 2019

In the first instalment of Hidden Figures, a new strand celebrating filmmakers who have been unjustly neglected in cinema history, we bring you the work of Italian director Lina Wertmüller.

23 –24 Mar 2019

The Barbican Young Programmers are plotting Chronic Youth 2019. Watch this space.

4 –16 Apr 2019

To celebrate 100 years since the birth of one of the most influential American choreographers of the 20th century, two dance events and a film screening pay tribute to his legacy.

6 –16 Apr 2019

Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, nanotechnology, trans-humanism: Polish author Stanislaw Lem was thinking and writing about today’s hot topics many decades ago.

12 –30 Sep 2019

In 1963 Osamu Tezuka’s TV series Astro Boy brought a new kind of robot to Japan. The robot child with a loving heart began a line of compelling, conflicted cyborgs whose existence challenges humanity.

27 –29 Sep 2019

Celebrate Leytonstone’s rich film history with two days of film screenings, music and entertainment across the town centre.