Andrew Ahn's heartfelt and hilarious reimagining of Ang Lee’s classic 1993 film delves into new queer family dynamics, and the challenges posed by cultural traditions.
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Motel Destino
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Karim Aïnouz's latest film of crime, lust, desire, danger and betrayal, set in a seedy motel in Brazil.
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Fashion in Film Festival: Artist Films - Colonial Threads
Three contemporary artist films explore how textiles and dress are directly implicated in histories of land, colonialism, migration and trade.
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Fashion in Film Festival: Shorts - Nature's Resources
Family Film Club is delighted to welcome the Fashion in Film Festival for their first ever family screening at the Barbican!
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Fashion in Film Festival: The Magino Village Story
An unusual insight into sericulture that celebrates the animal, botanical, earthy and craft-based origins of silk.
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Fashion in Film Festival: Into the Garden of Chimerical...
A programme of archival gems that explore the interesting and sometimes unusual connections between women, flowers, and insects, from 20th Century filmmakers.
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Bye Bye Love (Baibai rabu バイバイ・ラブ) + introduction
A wild and violent road trip with a genderqueer partnership at its centre, Isao Fujisawa’s breathtaking and radical movie was thought lost until a negative was unearthed in 2018.
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Ticket of No Return + introduction
A glamourous woman arrives in West Berlin, begins a drinking spree and forms a relationship with another woman in UIrike Ottinger’s droll, visually striking odyssey.
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Car Wash + intro by Mzz Kimberley
There are a hundred reasons to love this lively comedy, set in a California car wash, not least Antonio Fargas’ scene-stealing turn as the flamboyant Lindy.
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Ligeti Quartet: Nuc
The Ligeti Quartet perform tracks from their 2023 album Nuc, fusing acoustic and electronic music for string quartet by Mercury-nominated composer Anna Meredith alongside visual projections.
Ligeti Quartet
Lucy Humphristrumpet
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The Innerview + ScreenTalk
A newly restored screening of Richard Beymer’s trippy 1960s lost film from one of the minds behind Twin Peaks.
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A Woman Like Eve (Een vrouw als Eva)
After leaving her husband for another woman, a mother faces difficult challenges and decisions about her future in Nouchka van Brakel’s Dutch melodrama from 1979.
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Record of War
A unique juxtaposition of two films from the dark days of the late 1930s, charting the Italian invasion of Ethiopia 1935-6, but from radically opposed viewpoints.
