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Experiments in Film: Both Sides Now 10

Curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Dr. Isaac Leung (HK), Both Sides Now 10 presents a dynamic compilation of artists’ film and video works from the UK and Hong Kong.

A little happy ghost cleaning
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Family Film Week: Little Ghost Laban: Back Again + Activity

Something spooky for little ones!

animated grandad and three kids in front a treehouse
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Family Film Week: Tales from the Magic Garden

This gorgeous stop motion animation is a beautiful exploration of family bonds and the healing power of imagination. 

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Family Film Week: Kpop Demon Hunters

If you’ve not experienced the phenomenon that is KPDH, or even if you’ve viewed it 100 times already - now is your chance to live it out on the big screen! 

A women holding a turtle.
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Doc'n Roll Film Festival: Monk in Pieces + ScreenTalk

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her time.

two siblings walking into a big open door.
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Family Film Week: Special Preview: In Your Dreams

Come along for this sneaky preview of a brand new animation set in a limitless dreamworld – an end of school holiday smasher!

Olivia Laing
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Talks & events Cinema

Olivia Laing in conversation with Charlie Porter

Join acclaimed author and thinker Olivia Laing for the launch of The Silver Book, a gripping new novel set in the turbulent world of 1970s Italian cinema.

Flower
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Cinema

Land Cinema: Garden Films + ScreenTalk

Explore the garden as a place of personal healing and political growth in this programme of four experimental films and animations.

Ballet dancers on stage with ribbons, set against a countryside painted background
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RBO Live: La Fille Mal Gardee

65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée in a love letter to the English countryside with a cheerful score and colourful designs.

A girl sitting on a train with her parents looks hopefully out the window.
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FFC x Marsh: Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo + workshop

Family Film Club is delighted to be partnering with Marsm Festival to present this wonderful family animation, as part of A Season of Arabic Culture.

A dark stage appears, covered in fog.
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MET Opera Live in HD: La Bohème

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking, from Franco Zeffirelli.

a women winking with her hands together
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Olivia Laing: The Silver Book: Fellini's Casanova

A visually opulent telling of the life and times of the notorious libertine, from the legendary director of La Dolce Vita.

A nurse looks stressed, standing in a hospital
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Senior Community Screening: Late Shift

An over-stretched, under-valued healthcare professional juggling crises big and small in this gripping Swiss drama.

Flesh, Wax & Glass
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Flesh, Wax & Glass pt. 1 & 2 By George Finlay Ramsay

Two powerful short films charting a Southern Italian bloodletting ritual and one family’s journey through mourning, faith and devotion in the 21st century.

A man and a woman dressed in wedding attire with people standing behind them.
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Olivia Laing: The Silver Book–Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Fifty years on, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final masterpiece endures, shock value intact.

women picking red persimmons
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Land Cinema: Red Persimmons + Intro

Carefully chronicling the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons, this unusual documentary is an ode to rural Japan.

The Diaspora Suite
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Cinema Contemporary music

Jazz on Screen: The Diaspora Suite by Ephraim Asili

A film series created over the course of seven years exploring Black culture and the African diaspora through jazz and shared histories, using music to shape its rhythm, energy and visual language.

Totoro and children sitting on a branch above a river
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Family Film Club: My Neighbour Totoro

Following a sell-out screening earlier this year, we’re bringing back everyone’s favourite tree spirit for another outing at Family Film Club. 

So Watt Derek Bailey
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Cinema Contemporary music

Jazz on Screen: So Watt: Derek Bailey's On the Edge – The...

A rare chance to see Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation and invention in music – screening in full, in stereo and across a single afternoon.

Ben Webster in Europe & Cecil Taylor à Paris
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Cinema Contemporary music

Jazz on Screen: Jazz In Exile: Big Ben: Ben Webster in Eu...

This double bill offers two distinct portraits of ground-breaking American jazz musicians living and working in Europe, each navigating cultural displacement in their own unique way.

Two monsters, Godzilla and Ebirah, locked in combat in the sea
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep + introduction by Alex Davidson

A group of young men become shipwrecked and face the dangers of a terrifying sea creature and a terrorist group. Can Godzilla – and Mothra – save the day?

People standing with their tools in hand.
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Land Cinema: Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future + Intro

Haunting and expressive, this experimental documentary from Colombia portrays a landscape haunted by centuries of colonialism and reanimated by Indigenous resistance.

the iron giant crouching over a young boy
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Family Film Club: The Iron Giant + Intro by Michael Leader

This 1999 animation, directed by Brad Bird, will be introduced to young audiences by animation expert, Michael Leader. 

A scene from Arabella showing a group of men and women in 19th-century formal wear, standing in a grand ballroom
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MET Opera Live in HD: Arabella

A romantic comedy opera about love and money, as a family faces financial ruin in the extravagant society of 19th-century Vienna.

A man takes a photo of a man behind a camera, both are topless
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Senior Community Screening: Hidden Master

This stunning documentary uncovers the lesser known life of George Platt Lynes, one of the first openly gay American artists as visionary director Sam Shahid celebrates his legacy.

Skyline
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Cinema

Land Cinema: Ana Vaz + ScreenTalk (via Skype)

Two experimental films by the contemporary Brazilian director Ana Vaz explore land as a site of encounter between different species, peoples, and ways of seeing the world.

Fifth Step
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Cinema

NT Live: The Fifth Step

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman starring in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

Still from Spider-man 2022
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Family Film Club: Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse

A chance to catch the most visually stunning version of Spider-man on the big screen! 

RBO Live Cinderella
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RBO Live: Cinderella

This Winter, be transported into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.

Cinema of Peter Hutton
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Cinema

The Cinema of Peter Hutton + introduction by Daniel Owusu

Step into the contemplative world of acclaimed experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton with a rare screening of three of his most poetic works: Landscape (for Manon), Study of a River, and Time and Tide.