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Friday, 06 June 2025
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy
Friday, 20 June 2025
Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Thursday, 05 June 2025
Exploring Brian Lara’s remarkable ascent in 1994, the film celebrates his development in Trinidad and features interviews with iconic names from the world of cricket. Lara himself features in the film through an exclusive contribution and extensive archival interviews. In May 2019 during the latter stages of production Lara kindly granted the director very special access to film at his 50th birthday celebrations and in his own private museum at his residence in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Featuring never-before-seen archive footage and stills plus a 90’s ‘Britpop’, Calypso and reggae-inspired soundtrack, the film also examines the wider impact of Lara’s arrival and success at Warwickshire, coming so soon after his test world record innings of 375. “501 Not Out” brings an amazing story to life on the big screen for the very first time. UK cinema audiences have compared the film to the Academy award-winning ‘Senna’ (Universal) while other similar recent titles in the sports documentary genre include ‘Shane’ (Dogwoof), ‘Rocky & Wrighty: From Brockley To The Big Time’ (BT Sport Films) and ‘The Last Dance’ (Netflix).
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Is NOW happening FRIDAYs Of Every three month Upstairs at the Ritzy. Starting from FRIDAY the 14th of March 2025. Thereafter 20th June, 12th September and 21st November 2025. Dance to the best DJs in London on rotation. Doors open at 8PM - 2AM! Tickets, £5 A Night for matured ravers dancing to Afro Latin, Rumba, Salsa, Samba, Afro-funk & Rare Groove
Saturday, 30 August 2025
André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away! Step into a night of music, romance, and celebration with André Rieu’s Waltz the Night Away! An all-new summer concert captured live from the stunning Vrijthof Square in his beloved hometown of Maastricht is coming to cinemas! Each night, the Vrijthof transforms into a grand ballroom as André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra invite audiences of all ages to waltz under the stars. With timeless melodies and beautiful waltzes, this concert will take you on a journey filled with joy, love, and heartfelt emotion. Let yourself be swept away by one of the most romantic events of the year, bigger and more dazzling than ever, on the big screen. Bring someone special and create cherished memories as you Waltz the Night Away with André Rieu — only in cinemas this summer!
Friday, 20 June 2025
The new film Apocalypse Now Final Cut, has been remastered in 4K Ultra HD. Apocalypse Now Final Cut employs a ground-breaking sound system engineered to create a truly visceral experience. In addition, the film has been enhanced with High Dynamic Range HDR, delivering spectacular colors and highlights, with brighter brights and darker-dark the result is breathtaking realism.
Sunday, 29 June 2025
BAR TRASH celebrates our 3rd year and 10th sensational season with WE ARE TRASH!, a fan-made mixtape of cult and chaotic cinema (May to Aug 2025). "SHUDDER... AT THE BLOOD-STAINED DANCE OF THE RED DEATH!" THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) A prince terrorises the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the ‘Red Death’, a plague that stalks the land. Doors: 6pm. Intro + Film + Intermission: 6:30pm – 9pm Event takes place in the Members’ Bar (membership not required) Adults 18+ only Continuing our Vincent Price Sidequest — showing exclusively at Finsbury Park Picturehouse — we are stupidly proud to present ‘The Master of Menace’ in Roger Corman’s THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964). Filmed in England, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH is the penultimate title in the much-loved ‘Corman-Poe cycle’ of eight films that saw legendary B-movie maker Roger Corman adapt the works of Edgar Allen Poe for the big screen. Based on Poe’s short story of the same name — with another story, ‘Hop-Frog’, used as a subplot — THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH was considered by Corman to be one of the best of the series (along with HOUSE OF USHER). For many, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH is quite simply Roger Corman’s finest film — "Elaborate sets and costumes and Nicolas Roeg's lush technicolor photography make this as close as Corman ever came to real greatness" (Time Out New York) — and Vincent Price “the perfect interpreter, too, of the Poe character” (Variety). We are showing the 4K Restoration of this epic film. "There is a genuine chill of intellectual evil, because Vincent Price, initiating horrible tortures with a characteristic air of sadistic glee, also conveys a genuine philosophical curiosity as to the unknown territories into which his quest for evil may lead him." (The Monthly Film Bulletin) Polite notice: We are showing THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH with subtitles from the best available digital source. The film includes discriminatory language about and depictions of people with Dwarfism. /// BAR TRASH is a celebration of cult and curious cinema, hosted by queer film fanatic Token Homo and friends. Films are served with introductions, intermissions, prize giveaways, and subtitles / captions where possible. Tickets £8 / £5 for PH members. Adults 18+ only. Follow @tokenhomo on Instagram for updates. More info at tokenhomo.com ///
Saturday, 16 August 2025
Be Good! Storytelling and Ethics in Hollywood Cinema - Day School 10.00-17.00 (with a lunch break 13.00-14.00) £45 or £40 for Members and Concessions Tutor: Peter Krämer ([email protected]) From Rick’s (Humphrey Bogart’s) ‘hill of beans’ speech at the end of Casablanca to ET’s farewell to Gertie – ‘Be good!’ –, many Hollywood films have memorably raised the question of what the morally right behaviour in a given situation might be and why this is so. Films have vividly brought to life how fictional characters (sometimes based on real people) understand the situations they find themselves in, with different characters perhaps coming to different understandings; what their often conflicting impulses are; how they eventually decide to act; and how they feel about, and judge, their actions and the consequences of these actions when they later look back on them. In this course, we will consider the stories of, and key scenes in, films ranging from Casablanca and Disney’s Bambi (both from 1942) to Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Schindler’s List (1993) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Through our discussions of these films we will explore what our ethical obligations not only to other people but also to animals and even thinking and feeling machines might be. To inform our discussions we may read the short story that A.I. is based upon and also excerpts from publications by the moral philosopher Peter Singer. About the tutor: Peter Krämer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema & TV in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). He is a regular guest lecturer at several other universities in the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic, has written or edited twelve academic books and has also co-authored an illustrated volume about American film for children. He has been involved in adult education for thirty-five years. Programmed in partnership with The Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Thursday, 03 July 2025
Roll with the homies for an extra phat Big Night Out, as we celebrate 30 years of the absolute Betty that is Amy Heckerling’s Clueless. Bring your best Cher-esque looks and your favourite iconic lines as we blast some Supergrass and pay tribute to a film we’re majorly, totally, butt-crazy in love with. Big Night Out brings you social, themed screenings of guilty pleasures and cult favourites - expect drink specials, themes, giveaways and more.
Thursday, 01 May 2025
Celebrate the hand flex felt around the world. Big Night Out presents a twentieth anniversary celebration of Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice - because we love it, most ardently. Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) lives with her mother, father and sisters in the English countryside. As the eldest, she faces mounting pressure from her parents to marry. When the outspoken Elizabeth is introduced to the handsome and upper-class Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), sparks fly. Period piece meets enemies-to-lovers rom com in director Joe Wright’s feature debut, which adapts Jane Austen’s fiercely beloved novel for a new generation. With a super star-studded cast (Dame Judi Dench, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan Jena Malone, Talulah Riley…!), this lush and striking reimagining ripples with chemistry and hyper-memorable dialogue. It’s been many years since we had such an exemplary vegetable. Themed looks are strongly encouraged - expect giveaways, badges, drinks and decorations in the bar and a whole lot of yearning as we pay tribute to a true modern classic. Are you 25 or under? Grab your ticket for just £5.99 with a free MyPicturehouse account. I’m 27 years old. I’ve no money and no prospects. I’m already a burden to my parents. And I’m frightened. Enjoy that state-of-the-art frontal lobe and come anyway - your tickets are only £8.50. Picturehouse Member? You win - £5.50! Big Night Out brings you social, themed screenings of guilty pleasures and cult favourites - expect drink specials, themes, giveaways and more.
Friday, 31 January 2025
New to Harbour Lights Picturehouse: ‘Black In Focus’ Black British film nights by Our Version Media and Harbour Lights Picturehouse ‘Black In Focus’ is Southampton’s only Black British Film (genre) nights. There’s just one rule for the films we show: no gratuitous Black trauma. That means no films centred on gang violence, drugs, slavery or the negative Black storylines often shown in big cinemas. Started in 2022 by Our Version Media, now in partnership with Harbour Lights Picturehouse, 'Black In Focus' is billed as a refreshing change to the usual Black trauma and struggle narratives. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister Chantal (Michele Austin) is a single mother, her life brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. But things between the two of them come to a head over the course of one Mother’s Day weekend. A true legend of contemporary British cinema, Mike Leigh returns to the modern world with his first feature in six years: a fierce, humorous and compassionate study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
Friday, 18 July 2025
After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension -both with the natives and also within their own group -as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
A film that celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music. This is the second screening of London Breeze Film Festival’s Summer Breeze programme in support of Refugee Week and its theme of ‘Community as a Superpower’. With this screening we are marking an important anniversary. It is forty-five years in June since Bob Marley played his last UK concert. Join us for an evening of Bob Marley’s universally loved music and this remarkable biopic - the first to be made about the man whose music continues to inspire us to champion love, peace, resilience and community in a challenging world. Special guests to be announced.
Sunday, 20 July 2025
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Doodle your way into our fortnightly Cartooning Club, where pencils fly and creativity soars! These sessions are designed to give cartoonists a forum to share, discuss, and develop their work in a supportive environment. Through guided discussion, fun drawing exercises, and constructive feedback, you'll have the chance to level up your cartoon game – plus enjoy a dedicated time and place to draw every other week. Absolute beginners are just as welcome as seasoned sketchers! Whether you've been nurturing a character concept, have a strip you're itching to develop, or simply want to spend time with fellow cartoon enthusiasts, our Club offers both community and that gentle nudge of accountability to make sure you actually draw! Come see where your pencil might take you! Hosted by Rob Middleton, a cartoonist and teacher of cartooning. Programmed in partnership with The Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Thursday, 03 July 2025
Chester Film Society is committed to showing the best of recent films from World Cinema, showcasing films that may have been missed or not shown at the cinema at all. In conjunction with Picturehouse, Chester Film Society’s Film Programing Group has put together a diverse programme that showcases the very best of cinema from around the globe. Film Society membership is only £10 for the whole season and members can then buy tickets for each film for just £5. As always, non-members are still welcome with tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price. In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Thursday, 07 August 2025
Chester Film Society is committed to showing the best of recent films from World Cinema, showcasing films that may have been missed or not shown at the cinema at all. In conjunction with Picturehouse, Chester Film Society’s Film Programing Group has put together a diverse programme that showcases the very best of cinema from around the globe. Film Society membership is only £10 for the whole season and members can then buy tickets for each film for just £5. As always, non-members are still welcome with tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price. In Carla Simon"s touching autobiographical film, six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother"s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna welcome her with open arms, it"s only very slowly that Frida begins to get used to her new home in the countryside. Punctuated by moments of youthful exuberance and mature ruminations, this coming of age drama, set amongst summery hues, is an extraordinarily moving snapshot of being a child in an adult world, anchored by flawless performances by its two young stars.
Thursday, 04 September 2025
Chester Film Society is committed to showing the best of recent films from World Cinema, showcasing films that may have been missed or not shown at the cinema at all. In conjunction with Picturehouse, Chester Film Society’s Film Programing Group has put together a diverse programme that showcases the very best of cinema from around the globe. Film Society membership is only £10 for the whole season and members can then buy tickets for each film for just £5. As always, non-members are still welcome with tickets at the full standard Picturehouse price. Summerland follows the story of fiercely independent folklore investigator, Alice (Gemma Arterton) who secludes herself in her clifftop study, debunking myths using science to disprove the existence of magic. Consumed by her work, but also profoundly lonely, she is haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank (Lucas Bond), an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and curiosity awaken Alice’s deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life’s miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, second chances do occur, and that, just perhaps – magic really does exist.
Friday, 27 June 2025
The badlands of East Anglia. A young man (Jayce) is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Broke and looking for answers, he goes into business with an elderly neighbour (Kev) to fence a shed of weed the old man has grown on his allotment. When their activities attract the unwanted attention of some local dimwit hoodlums, Jayce and Kev are forced to confront their past mistakes, discovering a mutual respect they never thought possible.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Arts Picturehouse is excited to host a Q&A screening of this Norfolk-shot comedy. We are delighted to welcome director Richard Bracewell, lead actor Ethaniel Davy and co-writer Patrick Dalton for a special Q&A event. The badlands of East Anglia. A young man is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Broke and looking for answers, he goes into business with an elderly neighbour to fence a shed of weed the old man has grown on his allotment. When their activities attract the unwanted attention of some local dimwit hoodlums, Jayce and Kev are forced to confront their past mistakes, discovering a mutual respect they never thought possible.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Cinema City is delighted to host the world premiere of this Norfolk-shot comedy. We are delighted to welcome director Richard Bracewell, co-writer Patrick Dalton, and actors Ethaniel Davy and Amelie Davies for a very special Q&A event. The badlands of East Anglia. A young man (Jayce) is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Broke and looking for answers, he goes into business with an elderly neighbour (Kev) to fence a shed of weed the old man has grown on his allotment. When their activities attract the unwanted attention of some local dimwit hoodlums, Jayce and Kev are forced to confront their past mistakes, discovering a mutual respect they never thought possible.
Friday, 27 June 2025
A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Friday, 27 June 2025
A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.
Friday, 06 June 2025
Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, Guyana. His presence and his desire to learn how to play the drum brings back the specter of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who died in tragic conditions 11 years earlier. Faced with the grief that haunts his family and Lucas's best friend's desire for revenge, Melrick seeks his own path to forgiveness.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Join us for a special crafting screening of Pride & Prejudice (2005), where you're free to practice your crafts and share the cinema experience with your fellow guests. Lights will be left on throughout the show so that you can craft in comfort. Just please don't bring crafts, such as paints, that may cause damage. Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
In partnership with Dark Matter, Green Screen are proud to present '#ClimateScam?' with short film 'Climate Anxiety' followed by a live panel discussion hosted by Dark Matter Founder & CEO Micallar Walker and featuring #ClimateScam? Presenter Jaz Njie and Jenny Edwards from the Climate Psychology Alliance. #ClimateScam? - With increasingly devastating climate disasters all over the news, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is a hoax? Join Jaz, a social media savvy member of the TikTok generation, as she explores a web of misinformation that could threaten efforts to tackle the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. A Cornwall Climate Care Film. Climate Anxiety - As the climate crisis unfolds, young people fear for their future. In this short film young people, parents and professionals discuss their experiences of climate anxiety and how they deal with it. A Cambridge Moviemakers film directed by John Yates. Both films explore the impact of the climate crisis on our young people offering fresh, diverse and solutions-based perspectives that you won't have seen before. Dark Matter - An inclusive marketing agency that connects Black audiences with culture and the arts. Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Friday, 13 June 2025
In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. Their only escape is a terrifying canoe ride down the raging rapids of the Chattooga River. If their heartless pursuers don't kill them, the treacherous waters just might.
Friday, 01 August 2025
It’s tiiiiiiime to reevaluate a cult classic! Ahead of her iconic performance at this year's Brighton Pride, join Divas Do Film for a special screening of Mariah Carey’s Glitter. In 2001, Mariah Carey’s diamond-encrusted reign threatened to come to an end with the untimely release of Glitter. A loose remake of A Star is Born, the film has a light touch on issues close to Carey’s heart, such as the patriarchy in the music industry, and a young biracial woman reckoning with how she sees herself, versus how she is seen. The making of and failures of Glitter have become more infamous than the film itself, plagued with racism and sabotage from the very beginning. Over two decades on, it’s time to re-evaluate how a sentimental star-vehicle could prove near catastrophic. Freelance writer and Divas Do Film founder Rógan Graham introduces this celebratory screening with a whistle stop dissection of the mythology surrounding the film, the 2018 #JusticeForGlitter movement and the lasting influence of the Glitter soundtrack.
Friday, 25 July 2025
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Friday, 30 May 2025
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. An honest and life-affirming true story of the healing power of the natural world.
Friday, 20 June 2025
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Monday, 09 June 2025
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. From three-time Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Dean DeBlois, the creative visionary behind DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, comes a stunning live-action reimagining of the film that launched the beloved franchise. On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the animated franchise), Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society. With the fierce and ambitious Astrid (BAFTA nominee Nico Parker; Dumbo, The Last of Us) and the village’s quirky blacksmith Gobber (Nick Frost; Snow White and the Huntsman, Shaun of the Dead) by his side, Hiccup confronts a world torn by fear and misunderstanding. As an ancient threat emerges, endangering both Vikings and dragons, Hiccup’s friendship with Toothless becomes the key to forging a new future. Together, they must navigate the delicate path toward peace, soaring beyond the boundaries of their worlds and redefining what it means to be a hero and a leader.
Friday, 31 May 2024
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.
Sunday, 20 July 2025
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. A sexy, sun-drenched romp with an entertaining, hunky cast at its core celebrating the bonds of queer platonic friendship, and a very cute dog. While enjoying a day soaking up the sun at Athens’ gay beach, best friends Demos and Nikitas brainstorm ideas for a screenplay. Recalling the lively events of the summer where Demos reluctantly broke up with his ex, Panos, and somehow gained a dog named Carmen. The pair discuss how they can turn Demos’ encounters into a 'hero’s journey'.
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Travel back in time with this roarsome introduction to dinosaur cartooning, even if you've never sketched before... In this fun-packed two-hour workshop, you'll learn how to transform simple shapes into prehistoric pals. We'll explore various dinosaur types and discover what makes each one uniquely captivating when brought to cartoon life. We'll unearth techniques for creating a range of expressions that bring personality to your prehistoric creations. Your dinosaurs will stomp, chomp, and charm their way across the page! No previous artistic experience necessary – just bring your enthusiasm and sense of adventure. By the end of the session, you'll have the confidence to continue developing your dinosaur drawing skills at home. As a bonus, you'll receive a PDF containing all the exercises from the workshop, so you can practice and perfect your dino-drawing techniques at your leisure. Perfect for dinosaur enthusiasts, creative explorers, or anyone looking for a prehistoric creative escape. The workshop is filled with friendly guidance, practical tips, and plenty of Jurassic-sized fun. So grab your pencils and join us for some extinction-defying creativity! Tutor: Rob Middleton has taught adults how to draw cartoons online and in person in both the UK and Japan. He also does freelance cartooning for businesses, and plays the trumpet from time-to-time... Programmed in partnership with The Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Saturday, 16 August 2025
With Rob Middleton 6 Week Course Starting Sat 16 Aug 10.30am – 12.30pm £80/£75 for Members and Concessions Unleash your inner artist with this paw-some introduction to dog cartooning, even if you've never picked up a pencil before... In this playful six-week course, you'll discover how to bring canine characters to life through simple shapes and expressive lines. We'll explore a variety of breeds and their distinctive features that make each one special. We'll sniff out the secrets of capturing dogs in motion and at rest, and master the art of creating a wide range of doggy expressions that convey personality and emotion. Your furry creations will practically leap off the page! No previous artistic skills required – just bring your enthusiasm and love of dogs. Week by week, your confidence will grow as you develop your own unique cartooning style. Perfect for dog lovers, budding artists, or anyone seeking a creative new hobby to share with friends. Each class is filled with gentle guidance, lots of practice, and plenty of laughs. So come along and join the pack for some tail-wagging fun! Tutor: Rob Middleton has taught adults how to draw cartoons online and in person in both the UK and Japan. He also does freelance cartooning for businesses, and plays the trumpet from time-to-time... Programmed in partnership with the Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Friday, 11 July 2025
James Bond 007 is Britain's top agent, and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal C.I.A. Agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons", and a trio of assassins, known as "the three blind mice". Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No.
Friday, 09 August 2024
This month, the Duke’s After Dark team are busy getting the deckchairs out so they asked our U25-ers to pick which movie to kick off the summer holidays for them. The votes have been cast and counted and we can reveal the winner is… Jennifer’s Body. Megan Fox stars as Jennifer on a trail of bloody vengeance after an incident with a touring indie band. It’s up to her best friend (Amanda Seyfried) to put a stop to her insatiable retribution in this massively re-evaluated cult classic. A word-perfect Diablo Cody script! A prescient takedown of 00’s indie-rockers and the male gaze! A perfect late night movie! Meet us in the bar for a pre-movie mixer with music, zines, badges, and a prize for best fancy dress - the theme is School’s Out For Summer. Duke’s After Dark screenings have 10 minutes of ads/trailers following the advertised start time.
Friday, 25 July 2025
Lissy enjoys husband Gerd's deterioration in a home. Her joy is temporary as her health rapidly declines.
Thursday, 03 April 2025
Edinburgh Shorts Showcase presents A MONTH IN THE MOUNTAINS Follow Jamie Aarons' on her record-breaking Munro round, a self-propelled adventure covering 282 peaks, 1,600 miles, and 444,000 feet of elevation. Showcasing not only Jamie’s endurance and Scotland's beauty but also the amazing community that came together to support. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and networking after. This Screening is Wheelchair Accessible and will be subtitled and BSL Interpreted.
Friday, 20 June 2025
Elio struggles to fit in until he is transported by aliens and becomes the chosen one to be Earth's galactic ambassador while his mother Olga works on the top-secret project to decode alien messages.
Friday, 25 July 2025
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The highly anticipated Formula 1® racing feature stars Brad Pitt as a former driver who returns to Formula 1®, alongside Damson Idrisas his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid. The feature has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport.
Monday, 02 June 2025
Follow a group of Southern California high school students as they explore their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless) and written by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), this hilarious portrait of 1980s American teen life features film debuts of future stars Nicolas Cage and Forest Whitaker, plus decade-defining music from The Go-Go's, Oingo Boingo and The Cars.
Friday, 04 April 2025
The demon Mephisto wagers dominion over Earth with an archangel. He beguiles an old alchemist into selling his soul to him, leading a despairing Faust into a downward spiral.
Friday, 18 July 2025
Suburban dad Craig (Tim Robinson) has his life turned upside down by the arrival of a new neighbor (Paul Rudd). As Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend spiral out of control, their blossoming relationship threatens to ruin both of their lives.
Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Resident DJs Leslie Michel, Akin Shenbanjo Jnr & Fitzroy (Soul Survivors) spinning an eclectic selection of jazz, funk, soul, latin & boogie grooves old & new for those who like to dance it freestyle on a wooden dance floor.
Friday, 01 August 2025
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Friday, 16 May 2025
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.
Thursday, 04 September 2025
Green Screen with UKELA present Wilding + Live expert panel Hosted by UKELA's (UK Environmental Law Assoc) Nature Conservation Working Party UKELA is a charity, a membership association which aims ultimately to make better law for the environment. Our members voluntarily run a number of sector specific groups and the Nature Conservation Working Parting is proud to present 'Wilding' with a live expert panel to help highlight the issues facing this sector. Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, strive to breathe new life into the ailing Knepp estate. They reintroduce native ponies, deer, pigs and other wildlife, allowing nature to thrive. Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Green Screen presents '#ClimateScam?' with short films Climate Anxiety and Plan Z: From lab coats to handcuffs. This screening is followed by a live panel curated by all three filmmakers. Come and join the conversation. All the films address the impact the climate crisis is having on our young people with refreshing, diverse and solutions-based perspectives as well as well as the stark situation faced by scientists who, unheard by government, are now taking to the streets. #ClimateScam? (40m) - With increasingly devastating climate disasters all over the news, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is a hoax? Join Jaz, a social media savvy member of the TikTok generation, as she explores a web of misinformation that could threaten efforts to tackle the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. A Cornwall Climate Care Film. Climate Anxiety (17m) - As the climate crisis unfolds, young people fear for their future. In this short film young people, parents and professionals discuss their experiences of climate anxiety and how they deal with it. A Cambridge Moviemakers film directed by John Yates. Plan Z: From lab coats to handcuffs (23m) - When the UK government ignores mounting evidence for climate breakdown, a group of scientists turn to civil disobedience to warn the public themselves, risking arrest, a criminal record and their professional reputations. A window into the world of reluctant activism, Plan Z explores the power of protest when established routes of influence fail. Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Thursday, 05 June 2025
Norwich - Thursday 17th July + Live panel with The Rivers Trust York - Thursday 4th Sept + Live panel with Right to Roam When the water company and local authorities fail the community, the wild swimmers of Bristol fight back through activism, swimming like a mermaid and getting married. Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage disposal system, and with only 14% of English rivers in good ecological health, the mission to keep the rivers clean is not going well. In a series of moving, exciting and thought-provoking scenes, the swimmers create a stunning tapestry of light-hearted yet fascinating probe into how activism starts from the grassroots, and carries a profound universal lesson for all of us. There’s a wedding, drum’n’base, an inflatable turd, and a whole lot of cheesecake in this poignant reflection on innovative people’s fight for the natural world they cherish. Directed, shot and produced by women from the UK, Kenya, Poland. Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Monday, 23 June 2025
In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’ (The Letter); an encyclical letter about the environmental crisis to every single person in the world. A few years later, four voices that have gone unheard in global conversations have been invited to an unprecedented dialogue with the Pope. Hailing from Senegal, the Amazon, India, and Hawaii, they bring perspective and solutions from the poor, the indigenous, the youth, and wildlife into a conversation with Pope Francis himself. This documentary follows their journey to Rome and the extraordinary experiences that took place there, and is packed with powerfully moving personal stories alongside the latest information about the planetary crisis and the toll it’s taking on nature and people. Blurb for the event - The Laudato Si Movement is extremely proud to host this very special Green Screen presentation of THE LETTER: A MESSAGE FOR OUR EARTH at London's iconic Notting Hill Gate Picturehouse in memory of Pope Francis, as part of London Climate Week. The screening will be followed by a panel of guests including the film director Nicolas Brown, Bianca Pitt, co-founder of She Changes Climate and Lorna Gold, Executive Director of Laudato Si’ Movement.
Wednesday, 09 July 2025
Transition Bath host The Line We Crossed with live panel featuring director Liz Smith and film participant and local resident Steve Pritchard. As we fail to address the climate crisis, activists cross the line into civil disobedience with chilling consequences for their lives and our protest rights. A British story of dissent, drawn from the frontlines of climate resistance. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unraveling of our protest rights. The film challenges audiences to question what makes dissent effective and where the line of acceptability is. This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss the environmental issues raised in the films we show. Everyone is invited to continue the conversation after the film in the cinema's bar or cafe – enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Green Screen: Youth Climate Collaborative present #ClimateScam? In conjunction with London Climate Week the Youth Climate Collaborative present #ClimateScam? + Climate Anxiety followed by a panel discussion with guests TBA. #ClimateScam? - With increasingly devastating climate disasters all over the news, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is a hoax? Join Jaz, a social media savvy member of the TikTok generation, as she explores a web of misinformation that could threaten efforts to tackle the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. A Cornwall Climate Care Film. Climate Anxiety - As the climate crisis unfolds, young people fear for their future. In this short film young people, parents and professionals discuss their experiences of climate anxiety and how they deal with it. A Cambridge Moviemakers film directed by John Yates. Both films explore the impact of the climate crisis on our young people offering fresh, diverse and solutions-based perspectives that you won't have seen before. Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Welcome to Harbour Highlights, a series of cult and classic favourites, handpicked by the Harbour lights staff. For June, Henry takes us back to the summer of 1963 for the classic romantic drama Dirty Dancing. Released in the summer of 1987, Dirty Dancing went on to become the third biggest film of the year, turning stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey into global stars and the film’s soundtrack into a seminal record of the time. Set over a summer at an upscale summer resort, the film follows Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman (Grey) as she discovers the hidden side of the resort where class differences keep the guests and staff separate. Drawn to the exciting side of the staff’s nightlife, she soon falls for dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze). As the pair navigate their cultural differences, Castle finds himself drawn to Baby and a romance begins to blossom during their dance sessions. Often dismissed as being a fluffier film than it actually is, Dirty Dancing holds up not just because of its soundtrack and romance but because of its empathetic and honest look at class and youth in the early 1960s. But there’s a reason Baby and Johnny remain one of cinema’s most iconic couples and there’s no better way to experience the film than at the cinema where The Lift is as big, and the soundtrack is as loud as both can be.
Thursday, 28 August 2025
“It's like looking in a mirror, only not.” Welcome to Harbour Highlights, a series of cult and classic films, handpicked by the staff of Harbour Lights. For August, Kieran takes us back to 1997 for John Woo’s action classic Face/Off. Having conquered Hong Kong cinema with films such as The Killer and Hard Boiled, Woo brought his signature style to Hollywood with Hard Target and Broken Arrow. But it’s 1997’s Face/Off that proved his English-language works could match his early films. Based around a brilliantly absurd premise – what if an FBI agent and a terrorist had to swap faces ? – Woo brings out all the pulpy fun and adds unbelievably stylish action with all the slow-mo gun play and signature doves you’d expect. Reuniting with his Broken Arrow star John Travolta and teaming him up with Nicolas Cage, an actor hitting his OTT action star peak (Con Air was still in the top five at the box office when this was released), Woo’s Face/Off allowed both to play hero and villain to great effect. Hailed as an instant classic, with Empire Magazine calling it “the best action movie ever made”, Face/Off remains a ridiculous amount of fun, especially on the big screen.
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
“No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” Welcome to Harbour Highlights, a series of cult and classic films, handpicked by the staff of Harbour Lights. For July, Lewis takes us down the rabbit role to 1999’s groundbreaking The Matrix. After proving their worth as directors with 1996 noir thriller – and previous Harbour Highlight – Bound, the Wachowskis went back to their dream project – an ambitious science fiction that mixed cyberpunk aesthetics, philosophical debates and kung-fu action. Led by Keanu Reeves and a cast including Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving – all of whom turned their characters into instant icons – the film hit the cultural zeitgeist like a slow-motion crane kick, changing cinema forever. Over a quarter of a century, three sequels and countless imitators later, The Matrix stands as an undisputed masterpiece whose stunning visuals, propulsive action and thumping soundtrack has lost none of its impact. Free your mind and see it back on the big screen, where it belongs.
Friday, 04 July 2025
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood. Directed by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Daisy-May Hudson and EMMY nominated Sophie Compton, this deeply moving and transformational documentary feature was made via a unique process of a trauma-informed co-creation with six contributors, a group of incredibly talented, high profile women who are running charities and using their lived-experience to call for change. They are Aliyah Ali, Mandy Ogunmokun, Sarah Cassidy, Lady Unchained, Gerrah, and Tamar Mujanay. The film had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Its international premiere was at Hot Docs Film Festival in Canada, in competition for the Academy Award Qualifying Best International Documentary. HOLLOWAY is a profound, meditative, eye-opening and ultimately inspiring exploration of trauma and the immense human capacity for recovery. Q&A Details: June 18 - Picturehouse Central - hosted by Daddyless Daughters, Becoming Unchained and Treasures Foundation: with contributors Aliyah Ali, Lady Unchained, Gerrah, Sarah Cassidy, Mandy Ogunmokun, and Tamar Mujanay alongside directors Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson. June 20 - Finsbury Park - Q&A with contributors Aliyah Ali, Lady Unchained, Gerrah, Sarah Cassidy, Mandy Ogunmokun, and Tamar Mujanay alongside directors Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson, and also Maggie Walsh from A Fairer Chance and a representative from Community Plan 4 Holloway. June 23 - Epsom - co-hosted by Women in Prison and the Mary Frances Trust: with Karryn Robinson, Women in Prison programme manager and Megan Siarey from Mary Frances Trust, in conversation with director Sophie Compton. June 24 - Cambridge: Q&A with academics Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe and Daria Przybylska from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, in conversation with director Sophie Compton. June 25 - Oxford - co-hosted with leading academic Dr Shona Minson from the University of Oxford in conversation with director Sophie Compton and producer Polly Creed. June 29 - Cameo - hosted by Reclaim The Frame: with co-director Sophie Compton. July 2 - Chester: - Q&A with Faye Dunn from National Prison Radio and the film's director Daisy-May Hudson. July 4 - Liverpool - hosted by Reclaim The Frame's Impact Producer Sammy Holden: with director Daisy-May Hudson and producer Polly Creed. July 5 - Hackney - hosted by Reclaim The Frame's Head of Campaigns Flo Cartwright: with director Sophie Compton and five of the film’s contributors. July 9 - Southampton - co-hosted with One Small Thing: a special Q&A July 10 - Brighton - Reclaim the Frame's Impact Producer Rui Jin: with director Daisy-May Hudson and producer Polly Creed.
Friday, 04 July 2025
With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
A journey trough the 60 year career of The Zombies documenting the formation of the band in the 1960s and their hits “She’s Not There” and “Time Of The Season”. It will also follow the solo careers of the band members and their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
A journey trough the 60 year career of The Zombies documenting the formation of the band in the 1960s and their hits “She’s Not There” and “Time Of The Season”. It will also follow the solo careers of the band members and their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Friday, 26 December 2025
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Saturday, 02 August 2025
Course Overview This 6-week course introduces students to Video Art as a contemporary art form. Students will explore historical and current practices, develop their own video art project from concept to completion, and learn to use accessible mobile technology for production and post-production. Learning Outcomes - Understand the historical context and significance of video art - Develop conceptual thinking through sketchbook documentation - Gain practical skills in video production using mobile technology - Complete an original video art piece responding to a set theme Weekly Structure Week 1: Introduction to Video Art - Survey of key video artists and movements - Discussion of foundational works and techniques - Introduction to course theme/topic Week 2: Conceptual Development - Sketchbook methodology and visual research - Storyboarding and pre-production planning - Individual concept development sessions Week 3: Mobile Videography Techniques - Camera techniques for mobile devices - Lighting, composition, and movement - Location scouting and practical considerations Week 4: Production Week - Guided filming sessions - Troubleshooting technical challenges - Collection of visual assets Week 5: Mobile Editing Workshop - Introduction to mobile editing applications - Basic editing techniques and effects - Sound design and integration Week 6: Final Production & Critique - Project completion - Group screening and discussion - Reflection on process and outcomes Students will be given feedback on their completed video art piece, sketchbook development process, and participation in discussions and critiques. About the tutor: Matthew Harris is an accomplished filmmaker and educator with 25 years of award-winning experience in video production and media. As the founder of The Blah Blah Company, he combines creative vision with practical expertise to deliver results. Matthew holds a BA Hons in Video Production and more recently an MPhil in Screen Media and Culture from the University of Cambridge. His extensive teaching background spans multiple positions in Further and Higher Education, where he has provided students with both technical skills and artistic insight. His recent film, "A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies," has garnered international recognition, showcasing at festivals worldwide and earning an official selection at the Norwich Film Festival 2024. This practical industry experience informs his teaching approach, offering students relevant, current perspectives on filmmaking craft. With a passion for innovation and a commitment to nurturing emerging talent, Matthew brings both academic rigor and real-world production knowledge to his role as a practical filmmaking tutor. Programmed in partnership with the Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Friday, 09 September 2011
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Filmmaker Javad Daraei will present two short films made in Iran alongside footage from a new film that he is currently developing in Scotland. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist. I Don’t Like Here (2016) A trans teenager seeks his true self despite rejection by Iranian society and the inability of his parents to understand. Limit (2017) A man in a quiet neighbourhood asks for help from people whom he is seeing until someone suddenly enters his home… Javad Daraei is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and theatre director whose work explores themes of human rights, war, trauma, and resilience. Beginning his artistic journey in Iran, Javad worked as an underground filmmaker, creating socially conscious films that highlighted the struggles of marginalised communities, particularly LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities. His commitment to these themes came at great personal cost, including imprisonment and torture. In 2022, Javad was named an IIE-Artist Protection Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where he received vital support to continue developing his artistic voice. Age recommendation: 18+ Content note: Contains references to sexual exploitation and discrimination towards transgender and disabled individuals; discussion of death, murder, violence. Presented as part of Refugee Festival Scotland 2025. This event has been organised by Scottish Refugee Council, with support from IASH (the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh). Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Tuesday, 03 June 2025
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Laid Bare At The Ritzy is BACK! And just in time for our 8th Birthday too, where we'll be making up for lost time with a top-class line-up specially curated to get this popular night up and running again! It's south London's première Acoustic Night, presenting the best musicians, singers and poets South London has to offer! Hosted by local musician Rami Radi, the night is based around carefully selected featured acts and dedicated to local performers showcasing their talent in a warm and friendly environment. Doors: 7.30 & FREE ENTRY! -- Laid Bare is a community for musicians, run by musicians. It was founded with the sole mission of encouraging positivity, artist-wellbeing and freedom of expression. What started as an acoustic night in Brixton, is now a flourishing musical community offering a platform to some of the country’s most exciting artists. Laid Bare also offers a range of professional services to musicians across the board, helping each take their next step on their own musical journey and, most importantly, ensure the experience of being an artist is an enjoyable one. For more details, check out our Website. And follow us on YouTube & Instagram. Please note: After 8pm, the Upstairs bar is for over 18's only.
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
LMF Presents: The Sandbox Showcase is an exciting evening dedicated to celebrating short films from some of the most talented filmmakers in the North West of England. This event is designed to give both new and established filmmakers a platform to present their work in front of a live audience, bringing together creativity, community, and cinema under one roof at Liverpool’s renowned Picturehouse @ FACT. Expect a night full of diverse storytelling, with a range of genres and themes, each film offering a fresh perspective and unique voice. Whether you’re a fan of drama, comedy, documentary, or experimental films, this showcase has something for everyone. Filmmakers will also have the opportunity to discuss their projects in post-screening Q&A sessions, offering valuable insights into their creative process and the challenges they faced during production. Beyond the screenings, The Sandbox Showcase aims to foster connections and spark collaborations within the local film community. Attendees will have the chance to network with filmmakers, share ideas, and build relationships that could lead to future projects. This event is part of Let’s Make Films’ ongoing mission to support and promote local filmmakers, offering a stage where new talent can be discovered and celebrated. Join us for a memorable evening of film, conversation, and community. Secure your spot for this celebration of North West filmmaking by booking your tickets now!
Friday, 05 September 2025
This noir-influenced spine-chiller follows a jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) who, after a bizarre encounter at a party, is framed for the murder of his wife (Patricia Arquette). In prison, the man inexplicably transforms into a young mechanic and begins a new life for himself. Featuring piercing support performances from Robert Blake, Gary Busey and Richard Pryor, Lost Highway has become a cult favourite of Lynch fans. Join us as we revisit one of Lynch's most eerie and affecting works. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
We're delighted to welcome Amy Hardie for a live Q&A following this screening. Kenny and Kerry marry with secrets that almost blow their young family apart. After their new baby is born, Kenny's PTSD is triggered by his crying. Kenny no longer knows what is real, calls it ‘the screams’. It seems the marriage is over. But Kerry makes a choice - to return to school, study how the brain works, and discover that suffering isn’t a given - you can “use thoughts to change feelings”. We follow their recovery over ten years, through psychiatric medication, talking therapy, horses, race-cars and ice swimming as they emerge with new insights and resilience for their life ahead.
Monday, 24 March 2025
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 15 August 2025
Set in beautiful San Francisco, this is a suspense-filled story of a bank clerk who is terrorised by a murderous extortionist and the reassuring FBI agent who protects the ingenue. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 03 October 2025
Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation, where he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 14 November 2025
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards., director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim as Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband and butler, and Nancy Olson as the bright spot in unrelenting ominousness, are equally celebrated for their masterful performances. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 18 July 2025
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 05 September 2025
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia, and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, as he believes she has been possessed by a dead ancestor who committed suicide. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees to the assignment after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
ACT I Spring, 1789, at the Château de Coigny near Paris. Gérard, servant to the Countess de Coigny, mocks the aristocracy and their manners. Observing his father struggle with a piece of furniture, Gérard laments the suffering of all servants under their arrogant masters (“Son sessant’anni”). Maddalena, the Countess’s daughter, appears and Gérard realizes how much he loves her. Busy with preparations for a soirée that evening, the Countess scolds Maddalena for not yet being dressed. Maddalena complains to her servant, Bersi, about the discomfort of the current fashions and then runs out to change. Among the guests to arrive is Fléville, a novelist, who has brought with him the rising poet Andrea Chénier. After the Abbé relates the latest depressing news from Paris, Fléville enlivens the party with a pastorale he has written for the occasion. Maddalena then teases a reluctant Chénier into improvising a poem (“Un dì all’azzurro spazio”). Chénier scandalizes the guests with his criticism of the indifference of the clergy and the aristocracy to the suffering of the impoverished. The guests’ gavotte is interrupted by Gérard, who brings in a group of starving peasants. The Countess orders Gérard out along with the rabble. The guests are then invited to return to the gavotte, but they depart instead, and the Countess is left alone. ACT II Spring, 1794, along the Cours-la-Reine in Paris. The Revolution has begun, and the Reign of Terror is in full force. To fend off the Incredibile, a spy, Bersi pretends to be a daughter of the Revolution (“Temer? Perchè?”). The Incredibile is not deceived and notices that Chénier is waiting for someone in the Café Hottot. Chénier is joined by his friend Roucher, who has brought a passport so that Chénier may leave the country safely. Chénier says his destiny is to remain to find the love he has never had and to discover who has been writing him anonymous letters (“Credo a una possanza arcana”). A procession of dignitaries led by Gérard interrupts their conversation. The Incredibile takes Gérard aside to ask about the woman he is looking for. Gérard describes Maddalena to him. Meanwhile, Bersi asks Chénier to wait at the café for someone who wants to meet him. Maddalena appears and reveals to Chénier that it was she who wrote the letters. They pledge to love each other until death (“Ora soave”). The Incredibile, having seen Chénier and Maddalena together, brings Gérard to the scene. Gérard is wounded as Chénier defends Maddalena. Gérard, however, recognizes Chénier and sends him away, asking him to protect Maddalena. When the gathering crowd asks who wounded Gérard, he answers that his assailant was unknown. ACT III July 24, 1794, in the courtroom of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Mathieu, a revolutionary, is unsuccessfully urging the crowd to donate to the cause. Gérard, recovered from his wound, makes an impassioned plea for the motherland. Madelon, an old woman who has already lost her son and a grandson in the war, offers her last grandson as a soldier (“Son la vecchia Madelon”). As the crowd disperses, the Incredibile appears. If Gérard wants to have Maddalena, the Incredibile insists, he must first arrest her lover, Chénier. As Gérard writes the accusation, he is filled with remorse at the bloodshed he has caused in his rise to power. He concedes that his new master is passion (“Nemico della patria”). No sooner does he hand Chénier’s indictment to the court clerk than Maddalena appears. Gérard admits that he has laid a trap for her and that he loves her. Maddalena offers herself to Gérard if he will save Chénier. She has been a fugitive, her mother was killed in the Revolution and their home was burned (“La mamma morta”). Touched by her love for Chénier, Gérard promises to try to save him. The Tribunal convenes with an unruly mob in attendance. Chénier pleads for his life (“Sì, fui soldato”) and Gérard admits to the judges that the accusation he wrote was false. Nevertheless, Chénier is sentenced to death and taken away. ACT IV July 25, 1794, in the ruins of Paris’ St. Lazare prison. Chénier reads a final poem (“Come un bel dì di maggio”) to his friend Roucher, who then bids him a final farewell. Gérard and Maddalena are met by the jailer, Schmidt, whom Maddalena bribes with some jewels to allow her to take the place of another young woman sentenced to death. Gérard leaves to once again plead Chénier’s case with Robespierre. Maddalena tells Chénier she is there to die with him. As the day dawns, they share one final moment together (“Vicino a te”) before being taken to the guillotine.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
ACT I Vienna, 1860. In the Waldners’ hotel suite, Countess Adelaide von Waldner consults a fortuneteller about the family’s financial crisis. The cards predict a rich marriage for their beautiful daughter Arabella, which would get the family out of debt, but the fortuneteller sees danger from a second daughter. Adelaide admits that their “son,” “Zdenko,” who has been warding off creditors at the door, is in fact a girl, Zdenka, who has been brought up as a boy to save the family the ruinous expense of introducing two daughters into society. Adelaide and the fortuneteller leave and Zdenka, alone, laments the family’s situation. She fears they will have to leave Vienna and she will never see Matteo again, a young lieutenant and one of her sister’s suitors whom Zdenka has fallen in love with. To keep him happy, she has been writing him love letters in Arabella’s hand. Suddenly Matteo appears and asks his best friend, “Zdenko,” to help him win Arabella—otherwise he will shoot himself. Then he rushes off, leaving Zdenka desperate. Arabella returns from a walk to find presents from her three other suitors, Counts Elemer, Dominik, and Lamoral. Although Zdenka loves Matteo, she begs her sister to favor him so he will not be heartbroken. Arabella replies that the right man for her hasn’t appeared yet—she knows that once he does, she’ll recognize him. Elemer arrives to invite Arabella for a sleigh ride. Before she goes off to change, she notices a stranger outside the window whom she had seen earlier that morning. The two girls leave as Count Waldner enters and tells his wife that as a last resort he sent a photograph of Arabella to a rich old friend and fellow officer, Mandryka, hoping he would marry her. A few moments later Mandryka himself is announced—in fact, not the old Croatian friend, who has died, but his nephew and heir. The younger Mandryka has fallen in love with Arabella’s portrait and sold one of his forests in Slavonia to come to Vienna and ask for her hand. He lends the stunned Waldner some money, then leaves with the promise of an introduction later in the day. Waldner sets off to gamble with his newfound wealth. Matteo returns and Zdenka promises him she will have another letter from her sister that evening at the Coachmen’s Ball. Arabella, alone, reflects on the decision she has to make, her thoughts turning to the stranger she saw in the street. When Zdenka returns, the sisters go off to their sleigh ride. ACT II In the foyer of the ballroom, Waldner introduces Arabella to Mandryka, who turns out to be her fascinating stranger. Their meeting begins awkwardly as Mandryka, not used to Viennese society, feels he doesn’t find the right words, but Arabella is instantly attracted by his honest and straightforward manner—it is love at first sight. Mandryka tells of his young wife who died, of his lands, and the Slavonian custom of a girl pledging her engagement by presenting her future husband with a glass of water. Arabella returns his declaration of love but asks for one last evening to bid farewell to her girlhood. The coachmen’s mascot, the Fiakermilli, enters accompanied by her admirers and names Arabella queen of the ball. Mandryka orders champagne for everyone and steps aside as Arabella bids goodbye to Dominik, Elemer, and Lamoral. Meanwhile Matteo pleads desperately with Zdenka for some sign of Arabella’s professed love. Zdenka presses a key into his hands, telling him it opens the door next to Arabella’s bedroom, and that Arabella will meet him there later this evening. Mandryka, who has overheard the conversation, is appalled. Furious, he orders more champagne, drinks recklessly, and flirts with the Fiakermilli. Waldner appears, demanding to know what’s going on, and Adelaide explains that Arabella has gone home. Assuming there must be some sort of misunderstanding, Waldner convinces Mandryka to return with him to the hotel at once. ACT III Arabella enters the hotel lobby, dreamily thinking about her future life. Matteo, who has just spent some time in a dark room with someone he thought was Arabella, is amazed to find her there and can’t make sense of her cool cordiality. Mandryka arrives with the Waldners. Recognizing Matteo as the person who was given the key, he is convinced of Arabella’s betrayal despite her protestations of innocence. His behavior leads Waldner to demand satisfaction. Suddenly Zdenka comes running down the stairs in a nightgown. Overcome with shame, she confesses she gave herself to Matteo to avert a worse disaster. While her shocked parents forgive her, Matteo happily realizes that something didn’t add up from the beginning and that he is in love with Zdenka. Mandryka, though mortally ashamed, quickly takes charge of the situation and asks Waldner for Zdenka’s hand on Matteo’s behalf. As the others retire to their quarters, Arabella asks Mandryka to have his servant bring a glass of water to her room. Left alone and unable to forgive himself for his lack of trust in Arabella, Mandryka despondently wonders how she feels about him now that she left without even saying goodnight. As he is about to leave, Arabella appears at the top of the stairs, water glass in hand. She forgives Mandryka, and they renew their promise of love.
Tuesday, 02 June 2026
The season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
ACT I England, around 1650. Plymouth, a Puritan stronghold, is threatened by siege from the Royalist troops. Distant voices herald the wedding day of Elvira, daughter of Gualtiero, the fortress’s commander. Riccardo enters lamenting that his promised bride, Elvira, loves another man—a Stuart partisan. Her father will not force her to marry against her will, it seems, so Riccardo’s friend Sir Bruno urges him to devote his life to leading the parliamentary forces. Elvira tells her uncle, Giorgio, that she would rather die than marry Riccardo. Her uncle reassures her that he has persuaded her father to let her marry her lover, Arturo. Although Arturo is a Royalist, he is heralded as he approaches the castle. Everyone gathers for the wedding celebration and Arturo greets his bride. He learns that King Charles’s widow, Queen Enrichetta, is a prisoner in the castle and soon to be taken to trial in London. Alone with the queen, Arturo offers to save her even if it means his death. Elvira returns with the bridal veil and capriciously places it over Enrichetta’s head. When he is alone again with the queen, Arturo explains that the veil will provide the perfect disguise for escape from the castle. As they are about to leave, Riccardo stops them, determined to kill his rival. Enrichetta separates them and reveals her identity. Riccardo lets them get away, knowing this will ruin Arturo. The others return for the wedding, and Riccardo tells of Arturo’s escape with Enrichetta. Soldiers rush off in pursuit. Elvira, believing herself betrayed, is overcome by madness. ACT II The townsfolk mourn Elvira’s mental breakdown. Giorgio explains that she continues to long for Arturo. Riccardo arrives to announce that Arturo has been condemned to death by Parliament. The Puritans depart. Elvira wanders in, reliving her happy past. In her madness, she mistakes Riccardo for Arturo and dreams of her wedding. When she leaves, Giorgio tries to convince Riccardo to save Arturo. At first indignant, Riccardo is finally moved to help Elvira, and the two men unite in patriotism: if Arturo returns as a friend, he shall live—if as an armed enemy, he shall die. ACT III In Elvira’s garden, Arturo reveals that love for her has brought him back to Plymouth. He overhears her sing their old love song and is torn between his affection and his loyalty to the Stuarts. Elvira herself appears and Arturo reassures her that she is his only love. Soldiers rush in to arrest Arturo. Just then, a diplomat arrives with the news of the Royalists’ final defeat and a general amnesty for all the offenders. The shock of this news restores Elvira’s senses, and all rejoice in the peace as Elvira and Arturo embrace their new happiness.
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
ACT I Paris, in the 1830s. In their Latin Quarter garret, the near-destitute artist Marcello and poet Rodolfo try to keep warm on Christmas Eve by feeding the stove with pages from Rodolfo’s latest drama. They are soon joined by their roommates—Colline, a philosopher, and Schaunard, a musician, who brings food, fuel, and funds he has collected from an eccentric nobleman. While they celebrate their unexpected fortune, the landlord, Benoit, comes to collect the rent. After getting the older man drunk, the friends urge him to tell of his flirtations, then throw him out in mock indignation at his infidelity to his wife. As the others depart to revel at the Café Momus, Rodolfo remains behind to finish an article, promising to join them later. There is another knock at the door—the visitor is Mimì, a pretty neighbor, whose candle has gone out in the stairwell. As she enters the room, she suddenly feels faint. Rodolfo gives her a sip of wine, then helps her to the door and relights her candle. Mimì realizes that she lost her key when she fainted, and as the two search for it, both candles go out. Rodolfo finds the key and slips it into his pocket. In the moonlight, he takes Mimì’s hand and tells her about his dreams. She recounts her life alone in a lofty garret, embroidering flowers and waiting for the spring. Rodolfo’s friends call from outside, telling him to join them. He responds that he is not alone and will be along shortly. Happy to have found each other, Mimì and Rodolfo leave, arm in arm, for the café. ACT II Amid the shouts of street hawkers near the Café Momus, Rodolfo buys Mimì a bonnet and introduces her to his friends. They all sit down and order supper. The toy vendor Parpignol passes by, besieged by children. Marcello’s former sweetheart, Musetta, makes a noisy entrance on the arm of the elderly, but wealthy, Alcindoro. The ensuing tumult reaches its peak when, trying to gain Marcello’s attention, she loudly sings the praises of her own popularity. Sending Alcindoro away to buy her a new pair of shoes, Musetta finally falls into Marcello’s arms. Soldiers march by the café, and as the bohemians fall in behind, the returning Alcindoro is presented with the check. ACT III At dawn at the Barrière d’Enfer, a toll-gate on the edge of Paris, a customs official admits farm women to the city. Guests are heard drinking and singing within a tavern. Mimì arrives, searching for the place where Marcello and Musetta now live. When the painter appears, she tells him of her distress over Rodolfo’s incessant jealousy. She says she believes it is best that they part. As Rodolfo emerges from the tavern, Mimì hides nearby. Rodolfo tells Marcello that he wants to separate from Mimì, blaming her flirtatiousness. Pressed for the real reason, he breaks down, saying that her illness can only grow worse in the poverty they share. Overcome with emotion, Mimì comes forward to say goodbye to her lover. Marcello runs back into the tavern upon hearing Musetta’s laughter. While Mimì and Rodolfo recall past happiness, Marcello returns with Musetta, quarreling about her flirting with a customer. They hurl insults at each other and part, but Mimì and Rodolfo decide to remain together until springtime. ACT IV Months later in the garret, Rodolfo and Marcello, now separated from their girlfriends, reflect on their loneliness. Colline and Schaunard bring a meager meal. To lighten their spirits, the four stage a dance, which turns into a mock duel. At the height of the hilarity, Musetta bursts in with news that Mimì is outside, too weak to come upstairs. As Rodolfo runs to her aid, Musetta relates how Mimì begged to be taken to Rodolfo to die. She is made as comfortable as possible, while Musetta asks Marcello to sell her earrings for medicine and Colline goes off to pawn his overcoat. Left alone, Mimì and Rodolfo recall their meeting and their first happy days, but she is seized with violent coughing. When the others return, Musetta gives Mimì a muff to warm her hands, and Mimì slowly drifts into unconsciousness. Musetta prays for Mimì, but it is too late. The friends realize that she is dead, and Rodolfo collapses in despair.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
ACT I In the village square, preparations are under way for the wedding of Elvino and Amina, a village favorite. Only Lisa, the practical-minded innkeeper, who was once engaged to Elvino herself, is unhappy. Amina enters and expresses her happiness and gratitude to all and especially to Teresa, who brought her up after she was orphaned (“Come per me sereno”). Elvino rushes in late for the contract signing and offers a bouquet of violets to Amina in apology, then gives her a ring that belonged to his mother (Duet: “Prendi, l’anel ti dono”). Suddenly, a stranger arrives—Count Rodolfo in disguise. After accepting Lisa’s offer to spend the night at the inn he declares his love for this place that he has not seen in years (“Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni”). Noticing Amina, he is struck by her resemblance to a great love of his youth. As it grows dark, the villagers become apprehensive and Teresa explains to the stranger that a ghost haunts the town. Amused, the stranger says he’d like to see the ghost, then departs, followed by the villagers. Alone, Elvino and Amina quarrel over the count’s attentions to Amina, but Elvino soon apologizes for his jealousy (Duet: “Son geloso del zeffiro errante”). At the inn, Lisa has identified the stranger as the lost heir of the former local count. The two of them flirt, when suddenly there is a noise and Lisa hides in the closet, dropping her handkerchief. Amina enters, walking in her sleep. Rodolfo realizes that she must be the village “ghost.” Lisa, however, assumes Amina is coming to meet Rodolfo as a lover and slips away. Moved by her unconscious expressions of love for Elvino, Rodolfo leaves Amina innocently asleep on his bed. Unfortunately, the ever-inquisitive villagers choose this moment to come sneaking in to get another look at the stranger. Lisa appears with Elvino and Teresa, and everyone is shocked to find Amina in the count’s bed. Awakened by the commotion, the girl protests her innocence (“D’un pensiero e d’un accento”). For a moment, the entire village seems heartbroken over Amina’s betrayal, but soon rage sets in. In spite of Teresa’s pleas and Amina’s protestations, Elvino calls off the wedding and, with the rest of the village, turns on Amina (“Non più nozze”) In the ensuing chaos, Teresa picks up Lisa’s handkerchief. ACT II Feeling repentant, the villagers walk through a wood to Count Rodolfo’s castle, to speak to him regarding Amina’s case. Amina and Teresa enter and overhear Elvino lamenting (“Tutto è sciolto”). When he sees Amina, he reproaches her again and takes his ring from her. The villagers return to say that Rodolfo has confirmed Amina’s innocence and is on his way, but Elvino refuses to see his “rival” and leaves in despair. Amina is led away by Teresa. Elvino has decided to marry Lisa after all. He enters to lead her to church, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Rodolfo, who again proclaims Amina’s innocence, explaining to the incredulous crowd that she was only sleepwalking. Teresa appears, asking for quiet, since Amina has fallen asleep from exhaustion. She is shocked to see that Lisa is about to marry Elvino, who replies that Lisa was not found in another man’s room. When Teresa produces the handkerchief, Elvino realizes that Lisa has lied to him. Suddenly Amina appears, sleepwalking at a great height along a treacherous ledge. Afraid of waking her, the villagers watch and pray for her as she slowly reaches safety. Still asleep, Amina mourns the loss of Elvino, remembering the flowers he gave her that have since faded, and searching for her lost ring (“Ah! non credea mirarti”). Convinced of her innocence and unable to watch her suffer any longer, Elvino puts the ring back on her finger. Waking, Amina’s embarrassment turns to joy when she realizes that her dream has come true.
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
New Production. The electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan.
Saturday, 13 December 2025
ACT I Spring, 1789, at the Château de Coigny near Paris. Gérard, servant to the Countess de Coigny, mocks the aristocracy and their manners. Observing his father struggle with a piece of furniture, Gérard laments the suffering of all servants under their arrogant masters (“Son sessant’anni”). Maddalena, the Countess’s daughter, appears and Gérard realizes how much he loves her. Busy with preparations for a soirée that evening, the Countess scolds Maddalena for not yet being dressed. Maddalena complains to her servant, Bersi, about the discomfort of the current fashions and then runs out to change. Among the guests to arrive is Fléville, a novelist, who has brought with him the rising poet Andrea Chénier. After the Abbé relates the latest depressing news from Paris, Fléville enlivens the party with a pastorale he has written for the occasion. Maddalena then teases a reluctant Chénier into improvising a poem (“Un dì all’azzurro spazio”). Chénier scandalizes the guests with his criticism of the indifference of the clergy and the aristocracy to the suffering of the impoverished. The guests’ gavotte is interrupted by Gérard, who brings in a group of starving peasants. The Countess orders Gérard out along with the rabble. The guests are then invited to return to the gavotte, but they depart instead, and the Countess is left alone. ACT II Spring, 1794, along the Cours-la-Reine in Paris. The Revolution has begun, and the Reign of Terror is in full force. To fend off the Incredibile, a spy, Bersi pretends to be a daughter of the Revolution (“Temer? Perchè?”). The Incredibile is not deceived and notices that Chénier is waiting for someone in the Café Hottot. Chénier is joined by his friend Roucher, who has brought a passport so that Chénier may leave the country safely. Chénier says his destiny is to remain to find the love he has never had and to discover who has been writing him anonymous letters (“Credo a una possanza arcana”). A procession of dignitaries led by Gérard interrupts their conversation. The Incredibile takes Gérard aside to ask about the woman he is looking for. Gérard describes Maddalena to him. Meanwhile, Bersi asks Chénier to wait at the café for someone who wants to meet him. Maddalena appears and reveals to Chénier that it was she who wrote the letters. They pledge to love each other until death (“Ora soave”). The Incredibile, having seen Chénier and Maddalena together, brings Gérard to the scene. Gérard is wounded as Chénier defends Maddalena. Gérard, however, recognizes Chénier and sends him away, asking him to protect Maddalena. When the gathering crowd asks who wounded Gérard, he answers that his assailant was unknown. ACT III July 24, 1794, in the courtroom of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Mathieu, a revolutionary, is unsuccessfully urging the crowd to donate to the cause. Gérard, recovered from his wound, makes an impassioned plea for the motherland. Madelon, an old woman who has already lost her son and a grandson in the war, offers her last grandson as a soldier (“Son la vecchia Madelon”). As the crowd disperses, the Incredibile appears. If Gérard wants to have Maddalena, the Incredibile insists, he must first arrest her lover, Chénier. As Gérard writes the accusation, he is filled with remorse at the bloodshed he has caused in his rise to power. He concedes that his new master is passion (“Nemico della patria”). No sooner does he hand Chénier’s indictment to the court clerk than Maddalena appears. Gérard admits that he has laid a trap for her and that he loves her. Maddalena offers herself to Gérard if he will save Chénier. She has been a fugitive, her mother was killed in the Revolution and their home was burned (“La mamma morta”). Touched by her love for Chénier, Gérard promises to try to save him. The Tribunal convenes with an unruly mob in attendance. Chénier pleads for his life (“Sì, fui soldato”) and Gérard admits to the judges that the accusation he wrote was false. Nevertheless, Chénier is sentenced to death and taken away. ACT IV July 25, 1794, in the ruins of Paris’ St. Lazare prison. Chénier reads a final poem (“Come un bel dì di maggio”) to his friend Roucher, who then bids him a final farewell. Gérard and Maddalena are met by the jailer, Schmidt, whom Maddalena bribes with some jewels to allow her to take the place of another young woman sentenced to death. Gérard leaves to once again plead Chénier’s case with Robespierre. Maddalena tells Chénier she is there to die with him. As the day dawns, they share one final moment together (“Vicino a te”) before being taken to the guillotine.
Saturday, 22 November 2025
ACT I Vienna, 1860. In the Waldners’ hotel suite, Countess Adelaide von Waldner consults a fortuneteller about the family’s financial crisis. The cards predict a rich marriage for their beautiful daughter Arabella, which would get the family out of debt, but the fortuneteller sees danger from a second daughter. Adelaide admits that their “son,” “Zdenko,” who has been warding off creditors at the door, is in fact a girl, Zdenka, who has been brought up as a boy to save the family the ruinous expense of introducing two daughters into society. Adelaide and the fortuneteller leave and Zdenka, alone, laments the family’s situation. She fears they will have to leave Vienna and she will never see Matteo again, a young lieutenant and one of her sister’s suitors whom Zdenka has fallen in love with. To keep him happy, she has been writing him love letters in Arabella’s hand. Suddenly Matteo appears and asks his best friend, “Zdenko,” to help him win Arabella—otherwise he will shoot himself. Then he rushes off, leaving Zdenka desperate. Arabella returns from a walk to find presents from her three other suitors, Counts Elemer, Dominik, and Lamoral. Although Zdenka loves Matteo, she begs her sister to favor him so he will not be heartbroken. Arabella replies that the right man for her hasn’t appeared yet—she knows that once he does, she’ll recognize him. Elemer arrives to invite Arabella for a sleigh ride. Before she goes off to change, she notices a stranger outside the window whom she had seen earlier that morning. The two girls leave as Count Waldner enters and tells his wife that as a last resort he sent a photograph of Arabella to a rich old friend and fellow officer, Mandryka, hoping he would marry her. A few moments later Mandryka himself is announced—in fact, not the old Croatian friend, who has died, but his nephew and heir. The younger Mandryka has fallen in love with Arabella’s portrait and sold one of his forests in Slavonia to come to Vienna and ask for her hand. He lends the stunned Waldner some money, then leaves with the promise of an introduction later in the day. Waldner sets off to gamble with his newfound wealth. Matteo returns and Zdenka promises him she will have another letter from her sister that evening at the Coachmen’s Ball. Arabella, alone, reflects on the decision she has to make, her thoughts turning to the stranger she saw in the street. When Zdenka returns, the sisters go off to their sleigh ride. ACT II In the foyer of the ballroom, Waldner introduces Arabella to Mandryka, who turns out to be her fascinating stranger. Their meeting begins awkwardly as Mandryka, not used to Viennese society, feels he doesn’t find the right words, but Arabella is instantly attracted by his honest and straightforward manner—it is love at first sight. Mandryka tells of his young wife who died, of his lands, and the Slavonian custom of a girl pledging her engagement by presenting her future husband with a glass of water. Arabella returns his declaration of love but asks for one last evening to bid farewell to her girlhood. The coachmen’s mascot, the Fiakermilli, enters accompanied by her admirers and names Arabella queen of the ball. Mandryka orders champagne for everyone and steps aside as Arabella bids goodbye to Dominik, Elemer, and Lamoral. Meanwhile Matteo pleads desperately with Zdenka for some sign of Arabella’s professed love. Zdenka presses a key into his hands, telling him it opens the door next to Arabella’s bedroom, and that Arabella will meet him there later this evening. Mandryka, who has overheard the conversation, is appalled. Furious, he orders more champagne, drinks recklessly, and flirts with the Fiakermilli. Waldner appears, demanding to know what’s going on, and Adelaide explains that Arabella has gone home. Assuming there must be some sort of misunderstanding, Waldner convinces Mandryka to return with him to the hotel at once. ACT III Arabella enters the hotel lobby, dreamily thinking about her future life. Matteo, who has just spent some time in a dark room with someone he thought was Arabella, is amazed to find her there and can’t make sense of her cool cordiality. Mandryka arrives with the Waldners. Recognizing Matteo as the person who was given the key, he is convinced of Arabella’s betrayal despite her protestations of innocence. His behavior leads Waldner to demand satisfaction. Suddenly Zdenka comes running down the stairs in a nightgown. Overcome with shame, she confesses she gave herself to Matteo to avert a worse disaster. While her shocked parents forgive her, Matteo happily realizes that something didn’t add up from the beginning and that he is in love with Zdenka. Mandryka, though mortally ashamed, quickly takes charge of the situation and asks Waldner for Zdenka’s hand on Matteo’s behalf. As the others retire to their quarters, Arabella asks Mandryka to have his servant bring a glass of water to her room. Left alone and unable to forgive himself for his lack of trust in Arabella, Mandryka despondently wonders how she feels about him now that she left without even saying goodnight. As he is about to leave, Arabella appears at the top of the stairs, water glass in hand. She forgives Mandryka, and they renew their promise of love.
Saturday, 30 May 2026
The season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
Saturday, 02 May 2026
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.
Saturday, 10 January 2026
ACT I England, around 1650. Plymouth, a Puritan stronghold, is threatened by siege from the Royalist troops. Distant voices herald the wedding day of Elvira, daughter of Gualtiero, the fortress’s commander. Riccardo enters lamenting that his promised bride, Elvira, loves another man—a Stuart partisan. Her father will not force her to marry against her will, it seems, so Riccardo’s friend Sir Bruno urges him to devote his life to leading the parliamentary forces. Elvira tells her uncle, Giorgio, that she would rather die than marry Riccardo. Her uncle reassures her that he has persuaded her father to let her marry her lover, Arturo. Although Arturo is a Royalist, he is heralded as he approaches the castle. Everyone gathers for the wedding celebration and Arturo greets his bride. He learns that King Charles’s widow, Queen Enrichetta, is a prisoner in the castle and soon to be taken to trial in London. Alone with the queen, Arturo offers to save her even if it means his death. Elvira returns with the bridal veil and capriciously places it over Enrichetta’s head. When he is alone again with the queen, Arturo explains that the veil will provide the perfect disguise for escape from the castle. As they are about to leave, Riccardo stops them, determined to kill his rival. Enrichetta separates them and reveals her identity. Riccardo lets them get away, knowing this will ruin Arturo. The others return for the wedding, and Riccardo tells of Arturo’s escape with Enrichetta. Soldiers rush off in pursuit. Elvira, believing herself betrayed, is overcome by madness. ACT II The townsfolk mourn Elvira’s mental breakdown. Giorgio explains that she continues to long for Arturo. Riccardo arrives to announce that Arturo has been condemned to death by Parliament. The Puritans depart. Elvira wanders in, reliving her happy past. In her madness, she mistakes Riccardo for Arturo and dreams of her wedding. When she leaves, Giorgio tries to convince Riccardo to save Arturo. At first indignant, Riccardo is finally moved to help Elvira, and the two men unite in patriotism: if Arturo returns as a friend, he shall live—if as an armed enemy, he shall die. ACT III In Elvira’s garden, Arturo reveals that love for her has brought him back to Plymouth. He overhears her sing their old love song and is torn between his affection and his loyalty to the Stuarts. Elvira herself appears and Arturo reassures her that she is his only love. Soldiers rush in to arrest Arturo. Just then, a diplomat arrives with the news of the Royalists’ final defeat and a general amnesty for all the offenders. The shock of this news restores Elvira’s senses, and all rejoice in the peace as Elvira and Arturo embrace their new happiness.
Saturday, 08 November 2025
ACT I Paris, in the 1830s. In their Latin Quarter garret, the near-destitute artist Marcello and poet Rodolfo try to keep warm on Christmas Eve by feeding the stove with pages from Rodolfo’s latest drama. They are soon joined by their roommates—Colline, a philosopher, and Schaunard, a musician, who brings food, fuel, and funds he has collected from an eccentric nobleman. While they celebrate their unexpected fortune, the landlord, Benoit, comes to collect the rent. After getting the older man drunk, the friends urge him to tell of his flirtations, then throw him out in mock indignation at his infidelity to his wife. As the others depart to revel at the Café Momus, Rodolfo remains behind to finish an article, promising to join them later. There is another knock at the door—the visitor is Mimì, a pretty neighbor, whose candle has gone out in the stairwell. As she enters the room, she suddenly feels faint. Rodolfo gives her a sip of wine, then helps her to the door and relights her candle. Mimì realizes that she lost her key when she fainted, and as the two search for it, both candles go out. Rodolfo finds the key and slips it into his pocket. In the moonlight, he takes Mimì’s hand and tells her about his dreams. She recounts her life alone in a lofty garret, embroidering flowers and waiting for the spring. Rodolfo’s friends call from outside, telling him to join them. He responds that he is not alone and will be along shortly. Happy to have found each other, Mimì and Rodolfo leave, arm in arm, for the café. ACT II Amid the shouts of street hawkers near the Café Momus, Rodolfo buys Mimì a bonnet and introduces her to his friends. They all sit down and order supper. The toy vendor Parpignol passes by, besieged by children. Marcello’s former sweetheart, Musetta, makes a noisy entrance on the arm of the elderly, but wealthy, Alcindoro. The ensuing tumult reaches its peak when, trying to gain Marcello’s attention, she loudly sings the praises of her own popularity. Sending Alcindoro away to buy her a new pair of shoes, Musetta finally falls into Marcello’s arms. Soldiers march by the café, and as the bohemians fall in behind, the returning Alcindoro is presented with the check. ACT III At dawn at the Barrière d’Enfer, a toll-gate on the edge of Paris, a customs official admits farm women to the city. Guests are heard drinking and singing within a tavern. Mimì arrives, searching for the place where Marcello and Musetta now live. When the painter appears, she tells him of her distress over Rodolfo’s incessant jealousy. She says she believes it is best that they part. As Rodolfo emerges from the tavern, Mimì hides nearby. Rodolfo tells Marcello that he wants to separate from Mimì, blaming her flirtatiousness. Pressed for the real reason, he breaks down, saying that her illness can only grow worse in the poverty they share. Overcome with emotion, Mimì comes forward to say goodbye to her lover. Marcello runs back into the tavern upon hearing Musetta’s laughter. While Mimì and Rodolfo recall past happiness, Marcello returns with Musetta, quarreling about her flirting with a customer. They hurl insults at each other and part, but Mimì and Rodolfo decide to remain together until springtime. ACT IV Months later in the garret, Rodolfo and Marcello, now separated from their girlfriends, reflect on their loneliness. Colline and Schaunard bring a meager meal. To lighten their spirits, the four stage a dance, which turns into a mock duel. At the height of the hilarity, Musetta bursts in with news that Mimì is outside, too weak to come upstairs. As Rodolfo runs to her aid, Musetta relates how Mimì begged to be taken to Rodolfo to die. She is made as comfortable as possible, while Musetta asks Marcello to sell her earrings for medicine and Colline goes off to pawn his overcoat. Left alone, Mimì and Rodolfo recall their meeting and their first happy days, but she is seized with violent coughing. When the others return, Musetta gives Mimì a muff to warm her hands, and Mimì slowly drifts into unconsciousness. Musetta prays for Mimì, but it is too late. The friends realize that she is dead, and Rodolfo collapses in despair.
Saturday, 18 October 2025
ACT I In the village square, preparations are under way for the wedding of Elvino and Amina, a village favorite. Only Lisa, the practical-minded innkeeper, who was once engaged to Elvino herself, is unhappy. Amina enters and expresses her happiness and gratitude to all and especially to Teresa, who brought her up after she was orphaned (“Come per me sereno”). Elvino rushes in late for the contract signing and offers a bouquet of violets to Amina in apology, then gives her a ring that belonged to his mother (Duet: “Prendi, l’anel ti dono”). Suddenly, a stranger arrives—Count Rodolfo in disguise. After accepting Lisa’s offer to spend the night at the inn he declares his love for this place that he has not seen in years (“Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni”). Noticing Amina, he is struck by her resemblance to a great love of his youth. As it grows dark, the villagers become apprehensive and Teresa explains to the stranger that a ghost haunts the town. Amused, the stranger says he’d like to see the ghost, then departs, followed by the villagers. Alone, Elvino and Amina quarrel over the count’s attentions to Amina, but Elvino soon apologizes for his jealousy (Duet: “Son geloso del zeffiro errante”). At the inn, Lisa has identified the stranger as the lost heir of the former local count. The two of them flirt, when suddenly there is a noise and Lisa hides in the closet, dropping her handkerchief. Amina enters, walking in her sleep. Rodolfo realizes that she must be the village “ghost.” Lisa, however, assumes Amina is coming to meet Rodolfo as a lover and slips away. Moved by her unconscious expressions of love for Elvino, Rodolfo leaves Amina innocently asleep on his bed. Unfortunately, the ever-inquisitive villagers choose this moment to come sneaking in to get another look at the stranger. Lisa appears with Elvino and Teresa, and everyone is shocked to find Amina in the count’s bed. Awakened by the commotion, the girl protests her innocence (“D’un pensiero e d’un accento”). For a moment, the entire village seems heartbroken over Amina’s betrayal, but soon rage sets in. In spite of Teresa’s pleas and Amina’s protestations, Elvino calls off the wedding and, with the rest of the village, turns on Amina (“Non più nozze”) In the ensuing chaos, Teresa picks up Lisa’s handkerchief. ACT II Feeling repentant, the villagers walk through a wood to Count Rodolfo’s castle, to speak to him regarding Amina’s case. Amina and Teresa enter and overhear Elvino lamenting (“Tutto è sciolto”). When he sees Amina, he reproaches her again and takes his ring from her. The villagers return to say that Rodolfo has confirmed Amina’s innocence and is on his way, but Elvino refuses to see his “rival” and leaves in despair. Amina is led away by Teresa. Elvino has decided to marry Lisa after all. He enters to lead her to church, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Rodolfo, who again proclaims Amina’s innocence, explaining to the incredulous crowd that she was only sleepwalking. Teresa appears, asking for quiet, since Amina has fallen asleep from exhaustion. She is shocked to see that Lisa is about to marry Elvino, who replies that Lisa was not found in another man’s room. When Teresa produces the handkerchief, Elvino realizes that Lisa has lied to him. Suddenly Amina appears, sleepwalking at a great height along a treacherous ledge. Afraid of waking her, the villagers watch and pray for her as she slowly reaches safety. Still asleep, Amina mourns the loss of Elvino, remembering the flowers he gave her that have since faded, and searching for her lost ring (“Ah! non credea mirarti”). Convinced of her innocence and unable to watch her suffer any longer, Elvino puts the ring back on her finger. Waking, Amina’s embarrassment turns to joy when she realizes that her dream has come true.
Saturday, 21 March 2026
New Production. The electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Something Beautiful is a one of a kind pop opera fueled by fantasy, featuring thirteen original new songs from the visual album Something Beautiful by Miley Cyrus. Exclusively mixed by Alan Meyerson (Dune Part One, The Dark Knight) for theatrical release. Directed and written by Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter. Produced by Miley Cyrus, Panos Cosmatos (Mandy, Beyond The Black Rainbow) and XYZ Films’ Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian and Nick Spicer.
Friday, 14 November 2025
Beautiful, bizarre and strangely addictive, the film begins as a botched hit which results in the meeting of brunette amnesiac Rita (Laura Harring – Love in the Time of Cholera) and blonde would-be Hollywood actress Betty (Naomi Watts – Birdman, 21 Grams). Taking the viewer on a memorable neo-noir trip through Hollywood’s dark underbelly, Lynch dispenses with a conventional narrative in favour of a hallucinogenic assault on the senses that will stay with you long after the credits roll. Recently voted the best film of the 21st Century in a BBC Culture poll, MULHOLLAND DRIVE is essential viewing by one of the masters of contemporary American cinema. David Lynch’s scary and seductive vision of Hollywood is a true masterpiece, weaving together a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Tuesday, 01 July 2025
“A portrait of a now-gone New York and, sadly, of Chantal Akerman herself. News from Home centres on the tension that occurs when, after yearning for new space, this sensation gives way to the reality of prolonged (perhaps even unbridgeable) distance: the inescapable condition of loneliness.” Kiva Reardon “Enveloping, graceful, maudlin and spikily class-conscious.” Andrew Simpson “Akerman’s legacy is a tender, questioning voice in filmmaking, peeling back layers of intimate dynamics.” Sophie Brown
Friday, 26 July 2019
Norwich History Festival Presents: HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE - ROTTEN ROMANS Who are the Celts? What have the Romans ever done for us? And why is Emperor Nero dousing himself in horse wee? Find out in 90 minutes of historical hijinks based on the popular children’s books by Terry Deary. Friends, Romans, Celts… lend us your ears! The all-conquering Romans rule the civilised world – and that includes “the stain” that is Britain. While the young Emperor Nero must battle his scheming mother Agrippina for ultimate power, Celt queen Boudicca gathers an army in Britain to repel the rotten Romans. Mixed up in this battle for liberation are the teenage Atti, a reluctant Roman soldier, and Orla, a young Celt with dreams of becoming a warrior like Boudicca. Will they fall on opposite sides or forge a friendship in the chaos of Celtic-inspired rebellion?
Friday, 25 April 2025
Norwich History Festival presents THE ELEPHANT MAN Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the "Elephant Man." Treves brings Merrick into his home, discovering that his rough exterior hides a refined soul, and that Merrick can teach the stodgy British upper class of the time a lesson about dignity. Merrick becomes the toast of London and charms a caring actress (Anne Bancroft) before his death at 27. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Monday, 28 April 2025
Norfolk Folklore Society, in partnership with Norwich History Festival and Reel Connections present WITCHFINDER GENERAL + Introduction & short archive film. “He has the right to hang them in the sight of God…” The Norfolk Folklore Society invites you to an unholy night of righteous terror, rural horror and East Anglian evil as they present Witchfinder General (1968) in collaboration with Reel Connections and Cinema City. Shot on location in Norfolk and Suffolk, and based on real historical events, Witchfinder General tells the harrowing story of Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed witch-hunter who blackmailed, tortured and executed his way across East Anglia during the English Civil War. Starring a viciously restrained Vincent Price, this brutal, beautiful film is widely considered a masterpiece of British folk horror. Hopkins wasn’t a fantasy - he was real. And the landscapes he haunts in the film are our own: ruined churches, wind-blown fields, lost villages. Here, horror rises not from demons or devils but from dreadful men in power. Now considered one of the most important horror films of all time, this is folk horror at its most grounded and grim: no monsters, no magic—just cruelty, fear and the terrifying collapse of order. Before the screening, Norfolk Folklore Society’s Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor will introduce the film, exploring its historical roots, folkloric themes and impact on the genre, while Shuck Zine artist Matt Willis will be selling his eerie artwork in the gallery. This event is presented in collaboration with Reel Connections, a not-for-profit organisation that uses film, music and the arts to connect people across Norfolk and the East of England. Before and after the screening, the bar will be transformed into a folk horror haven, complete with a DJ set full of sinister strings, rustic rhythms, and witchy bangers. Guests will also receive a free special-edition badge to commemorate this chilling night of East Anglian horror.
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
We're proud to have a live accompaniment from Hugo Max for this screening of Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horror. An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens. [Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror.] continues to haunt — and, indeed, terrify — modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images. By teasing a host of occult atmospherics out of dilapidated set-pieces and innocuous real-world locations alike, Murnau captured on celluloid the deeply-rooted elements of a waking nightmare, and launched the signature “Murnau-style” that would change cinema history forever. In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok — portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck, in a performance the very backstory of which has spawned its own mythology — who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land… and establish his ambiguous dominion. As to whether the count’s campaign against the plague-wracked populace erupts from satanic decree, erotic compulsion, or the simple impulse of survival — that remains, perhaps, the greatest mystery of all in this film that’s like a blackout… Check out more from Hugo Max here!
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley.
Thursday, 04 September 2025
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.
Friday, 28 February 2025
Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe is assigned the case of a series of horrific murders in a rural Chinese town. As the investigation progresses, pressure from his superiors to find the suspected serial killer mounts, leading to a hasty arrest. But while his colleagues rush to celebrate, several clues push Ma Zhe deeper into a desperate investigation of his own – leading him into a dark world where mystery hangs over his every lead. A gripping crime thriller, ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS will take you on a journey into one man’s obsession with finding the truth whatever it takes.
Saturday, 16 August 2025
Join Out at Clapham in celebrating Madonna's birthday with this special screening of A League of Their Own. Plus after party at The Cav from 8pm! Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Friday, 20 June 2025
These Outdoor Cinema screenings will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor South Lawn & Garden, Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton, BN1 6SD London: Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NH York: York Museum Gardens, Museum Street, York, Yorkshire YO1 7FR Please note that films will start after sundown so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised session time, and the film will start between 20:15 and 21:30 depending on date and location. All Outdoor Cinema tickets include a £6 credit towards a drink or snack, so be sure to arrive early to pick up your treats and settle in with your choice of seat. On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, but his uncool status as the new kid isn’t the only thing preventing him from asking her out: Bianca is forbidden to date until her older sister Kat does too – and the fiery feminist Kat’s got no plans to do so. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only man in school who could possibly be a match for Kat: the school’s mysterious bad boy.
Sunday, 20 July 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Ealing: Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NH Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.
Friday, 20 October 1995
These Outdoor Cinema screenings will take place at: East Dulwich: Jags Sports Club, Red Post Hill, Dulwich, London, SE24 9JN Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised session time, and the film will start between 20:15 and 21:30 depending on date and location. All Outdoor Cinema tickets include a £6 credit towards a drink or snack, so be sure to arrive early to pick up your treats and settle in with your choice of seat. Cher Horowitz and her friend Dionne, two of the most popular students in their elite Beverly Hills high school, play matchmakers and stay on top of the school's hierachy. Inspired by their successes, Cher takes under her wing Tai, a transfer student whose sense of style is a little more grunge than Gucci. But when her status suffers as she tries to find an advantageous match for Tai, Cher soon realises that when it comes to matters of real romance, she might just be totally clueless.
Friday, 27 June 2025
These Outdoor Cinema screenings will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor South Lawn & Garden, Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton, BN1 6SD London: Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NH Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00 depending on location) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised session time, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Sunday, 29 June 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. When nightmarish apparitions run amok in the Big Apple, the Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd) charge up their proton packs and send them back where they came from. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star in this much-loved comedy romp.
Saturday, 26 July 2025
These Outdoor Cinema screenings will take place at: Ealing: Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NH Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised start time, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. A skilled London police officer is transferred to a small town that's harbouring a dark secret.
Friday, 08 August 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 18.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. Grab a seat in the pew, because you're invited to Muriel's Wedding: celebrate 30 years of the gloriously kitsch, ABBA-laden Australian comedy classic that gained a loyal queer following and made Toni Collette – and the terrible, terribly wonderful Muriel – a star. It’s as good as ‘Dancing Queen’. All Muriel (Collette) wants is to get married. A twenty-something misfit in the provincial town of Porpoise Spit, surrounded by her unsympathetic family, she longs for an escape – and she finds one. Ready to reinvent herself, she steals a blank cheque and flies herself out to a holiday resort on the quest for love (or at the least, the approval of her mean girl ex-classmates). There she meets fellow outcast Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths), and the two immediately understand each other. They set off to Sydney to live their dreams – until Muriel finds herself with an unexpected proposal.
Sunday, 24 August 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 18.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Saturday, 30 August 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 18.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. After being kicked out of a rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, only to try and turn it into a rock band.
Saturday, 16 August 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. Filmed at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, SIX the Musical Live! features the six original West End queens – Jarnéia Richard-Noel, Millie O'Connell, Natalie Paris, Alexia McIntosh, Aimie Atkinson and Maiya Quansah-Breed - each reprising their roles for a one-off, showstopping cinematic experience. Watched by audiences of over 3.5 million, the box office smash-hit and double TONY award-winning SIX the Musical has reigned supreme as a global theatre phenomenon since its 2017 debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With 5* reviews from the Telegraph, Express, Sunday Mirror, Evening Standard and more, the electrifying show follows the long-misunderstood wives of Henry VIII as they strut out of the shadow of their infamous husband to reclaim their narrative and finally tell their stories in their own words - with plenty of royally good fun along the way. Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, this musical for the ages sees the six queens - Catherine of Aragon (Richard-Noel), Anne Boleyn (O’Connell), Jane Seymour (Paris), Anna of Cleves (McIntosh), Katherine Howard (Atkinson) and Catherine Parr (Quansah-Breed) - take back the microphone through a series of infectious, empowering performances. The queens are accompanied by the sensational on-stage band, the Ladies in Waiting. SIX the Musical Live! was recorded at the Vaudeville Theatre, London with the original cast reprising their roles. The show was directed for stage by Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage and directed for film by Liz Clare, and produced by Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles and Dione Orrom. CAST Catherine of Aragon - Jarnéia Richard-Noel Anne Boleyn - Millie O'Connell Jane Seymour - Natalie Paris Anna of Cleves - Alexia McIntosh Katherine Howard - Aimie Atkinson Catherine Parr - Maiya Quansah-Breed
Saturday, 02 August 2025
These Outdoor Cinema screenings will take place at: London: JAGS Sports Club, Red Post Hl, London SE24 9JN (Doors 19:00, film approx 20:45) Brighton: Preston Manor South Lawn & Garden, Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton, BN1 6SD (Doors 18:30, film approx 20:30) Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB (Doors 18:30, film approx 20:30) York: York Museum Gardens, Museum Street, York, Yorkshire YO1 7FR (Doors 18:30, film approx 20:15) Please note that films will start after sundown so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised session time, and the film will start between 20:15 and 21:30 depending on date and location. All Outdoor Cinema tickets include a £6 credit towards a drink or snack, so be sure to arrive early to pick up your treats and settle in with your choice of seat. The greatest concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians. Renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures the band at their exhilarating best, in this new and complete restoration for the film's 40th anniversary.
Sunday, 10 August 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 18.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
Saturday, 19 July 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Ealing: Gunnersbury Park House, Popes Lane, London, W5 4NH Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires in this '80s leather-clad pop art in thrall to the Brat Pack.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19:30, film starts at approximately 21:30. All Outdoor Cinema tickets include a £6 credit towards a drink or snack, so be sure to arrive early to pick up your treats and settle in with your choice of seat. While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at 19.30, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Saturday, 28 June 2025
This Outdoor Cinema screening will take place at: Brighton: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD Norwich: The Plantation Garden, 4 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3DB Please note that films will start after sundown (approximately 20.30-21.00) so that you can enjoy outdoor cinema at its best. Doors open at the advertised start time, so be sure to arrive early to enjoy our drinks and snacks and settle in with your choice of seat. The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken to its core when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic. Arriving to help Sheriff Harry Truman and local law enforcement investigate the case, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper becomes convinced of a link between Palmer's murder and that of Theresa Banks, who died a year earlier. While Laura's parents mourn, Cooper begins his investigation – but the town’s eccentricities mean he may have to solve more than he bargained for.
Friday, 08 November 2024
PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington back home to the Peruvian jungle to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, now a resident at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family and Mrs Bird in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mysterious disappearance plunges them into an unexpected journey from the Amazon rainforest to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Friday, 27 June 2025
From Alex Ross Perry, the acclaimed director of Her Smell and Listen Up Philip and a distinctive voice in post-mumblecore cinema, comes an irreverent, genre-bending portrait of the iconic '90s indie rock band Pavement. Premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, PAVEMENTS blends authentic archival footage, contemporary documentary moments, an ironic jukebox musical, a satirical Hollywood biopic, and playful mockumentary sequences, brilliantly collapsing the boundaries between reality and fiction. As Pavement prepare for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour, the film captures surreal behind-the-scenes preparations for a musical adaptation of their songs, a museum dedicated entirely to the band's legacy, and a knowingly clichéd Hollywood biopic starring Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus. Interwoven with genuine archival footage and featuring the band members themselves alongside a cast of actors and comedians, PAVEMENTS humorously examines fan obsession, myth-making, and the cultural mechanics behind fame. This uniquely layered exploration challenges the traditional way stories about musicians are told with artistry, absurdity and humor, culminating in a refreshingly inventive and endearingly self-aware tribute to an unforgettable band. Starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, and Zoe Lister-Jones, and as themselves: Stephen Malkmus, Scott 'Spiral Stairs' Kannberg, Mark Ibold, Steve West, and Bob Nastanovich. Editing by non-fiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession).
Friday, 15 March 2024
This special is slightly longer than our regular Toddler Time shows, at 60 minutes. Join Pip and Posy for their newest cinema show. This time they've brought all their friends along too. Play, sing and laugh along with Pip, Posy, Jamila, Zac and Frankie. Featuring seven amazing episodes, interactive games and a song. Come on, Let's Play!
Friday, 11 April 2025
In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, ‘Preemptive Listening’ is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be. Siren compositions from over 20 contemporary musicians form a resonant voice to ask; Does an alarm have to be alarming?
Friday, 04 July 2025
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Friday, 27 June 2025
The QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore fat beauty and liberation, gender-affirming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline, Switchboard in the UK.
Monday, 30 June 2025
The QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore fat beauty and liberation, gender-affirming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline, Switchboard in the UK.
Friday, 20 June 2025
A vibrant dive into the heart of a working-class seaside town, Queering Blackpool charts the rise of its drag and LGBTQ+ scene - from the bold pioneers who built it to the new generation carrying the glittering torch. Through candid interviews, rare footage, and show-stopping performances, the film celebrates the resilience, rebellion, and fierce joy that makes Blackpool a queer sanctuary. Both a tribute and a promise, it captures the soul of a town where identity takes centre stage. Q&A with the Filmmakers after the film.
Thursday, 02 October 2025
Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music to bring audiences a unique big screen experience. This reimagining of the iconic Nosferatu (1922) features Radiohead’s Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) albums. An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu (1922) is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau’s Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws - perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Don’t miss out on the chance to experience this imaginative new take on an iconic horror classic!
Friday, 27 June 2025
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love awaits. This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family and will transport you into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.
Tuesday, 03 March 2026
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost. Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.
Wednesday, 05 November 2025
Lise, the only daughter of Widow Simone, is in love with the young farmer Colas, but her mother has far more ambitious plans for her. Simone hopes to marry her off to Alain, the son of the wealthy proprietor Thomas. Desperate to marry Colas rather than Alain, Lise contrives to outwit her mother’s plans. 65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. This affectionate portrayal of village life combines exuberant good humour and brilliantly inventive choreography in what is undoubtedly Ashton’s love letter to the English countryside. La Fille mal gardée whisks us away into pastoral bliss with Ferdinand Hérold’s cheerful score and Osbert Lancaster’s colourful designs.
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisan courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart. But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking. As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber... Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker; the only way to save him is for the Nutcracker to defeat the Mouse King and find a girl to love and care for him. A flicker of hope comes in the form of the young Clara, whom Drosselmeyer meets at a Christmas party. With some magic, a cosy Christmas gathering turns into a marvellous adventure. Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, The Nutcracker is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages.
Wednesday, 01 October 2025
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia’s twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain: sleeping with the man she hates in order to save the man she loves. Can she find a way out? A star-studded cast includes soprano Anna Netrebko performing the role of Tosca, tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and bass-baritone Gerald Finley as Scarpia, with Music Director of The Royal Opera Jakub Hrůša conducting his first new production in the role. An alternative, modern-day Rome provides the backdrop for Oliver Mears’ unmissable, gripping new production of Puccini’s thriller.
Monday, 09 February 2026
Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures. Woolf Works is a collage of themes from Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves and Woolf’s other writings. Created in 2015 for The Royal Ballet, this Olivier-award winning ballet triptych captures the heart of Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love awaits. This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family and will transport you into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.
Tuesday, 03 March 2026
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost. Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.
Wednesday, 05 November 2025
Lise, the only daughter of Widow Simone, is in love with the young farmer Colas, but her mother has far more ambitious plans for her. Simone hopes to marry her off to Alain, the son of the wealthy proprietor Thomas. Desperate to marry Colas rather than Alain, Lise contrives to outwit her mother’s plans. 65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. This affectionate portrayal of village life combines exuberant good humour and brilliantly inventive choreography in what is undoubtedly Ashton’s love letter to the English countryside. La Fille mal gardée whisks us away into pastoral bliss with Ferdinand Hérold’s cheerful score and Osbert Lancaster’s colourful designs.
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisan courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart. But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking. As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber... Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker; the only way to save him is for the Nutcracker to defeat the Mouse King and find a girl to love and care for him. A flicker of hope comes in the form of the young Clara, whom Drosselmeyer meets at a Christmas party. With some magic, a cosy Christmas gathering turns into a marvellous adventure. Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, The Nutcracker is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages.
Wednesday, 01 October 2025
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia’s twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain: sleeping with the man she hates in order to save the man she loves. Can she find a way out? A star-studded cast includes soprano Anna Netrebko performing the role of Tosca, tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and bass-baritone Gerald Finley as Scarpia, with Music Director of The Royal Opera Jakub Hrůša conducting his first new production in the role. An alternative, modern-day Rome provides the backdrop for Oliver Mears’ unmissable, gripping new production of Puccini’s thriller.
Monday, 09 February 2026
Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures. Woolf Works is a collage of themes from Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves and Woolf’s other writings. Created in 2015 for The Royal Ballet, this Olivier-award winning ballet triptych captures the heart of Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Hitchcock’s first Daphne Du Maurier adaptation remains one of his most chilling works: a timid young woman (Joan Fontaine) meets and falls madly in love with a wealthy widower (Laurence Olivier) whilst working as a lady’s companion in Monte Carlo. After a whirlwind romance, she travels to her new home, the misty English country estate Manderley, but finds her newlywed bliss short-lived when she discovers that Rebecca – her husband's first wife, and object of withering housekeeper Mrs. Danvers’ (Judith Anderson) fixation – wields a ghostly hold over everything and everyone who lives there.
Friday, 08 August 2025
A tale of switchblades, speeding cars and teen torment. James Dean is luminous as the troubled Jim, object of Natalie Wood’s affection and Sal Mineo’s adulation.
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Presented by Dark Matter and Round Table Books Join us for an illuminating evening with writer, art historian, and founder of A Black History of Art, Alayo Akinkugbe, in conversation with curator and educator Bolanle Tajudeen. In Reframing Blackness, Akinkugbe challenges the historical erasure of Blackness in mainstream art history. This discussion will delve into key themes from the book, shedding light on the intersections of race, feminism, and cultural narratives in art. Expect a thought-provoking conversation on how we can rethink art history, challenge dominant narratives, and celebrate the contributions of Black artists. Whether you’re an art lover, artist, student, or simply curious about the untold stories of Blackness in art, this event is not to be missed. The event will include an audience Q&A, book sales with Round Table Books and a book signing. About Reframing Blackness Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored. In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void. Exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, as well as Blackness in museums, in feminist art movements and in the curriculum, Alayo unveils an overlooked but integral part of our collective art history. Refreshing and accessible, this promises to start a much-needed conversation in culture and education. Alayo Akinkugbe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and graduated with an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023. She runs the Instagram platform @ABlackHistoryofArt, which highlights Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day; and hosts the podcast A Shared Gaze. Alayo is a contributing editor and writes the column ‘Black Gazes’ for AnOther Magazine. She was awarded a curatorial research grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for the exhibition Entangled Pasts: Art Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts. Alayo was on the advisory panel and contributed to the book African Artists: From 1882 to Now, published by Phaidon in 2021, and has written for publications including Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors. Reframing Blackness is her first book. Bolanle Tajudeen is a curator, cultural leader, and founder of Black Blossoms, an expanded curatorial platform and online art school supporting artists from diverse backgrounds. She is also a curator at the Bristol Legacy Foundation, where she leads projects reimagining public spaces and cultural narratives. In 2024, she launched Bolanle Contemporary, a gallery dedicated to showcasing exceptional work from artists often underrepresented in the art world. Founded in 2024 Bolanle Contemporary supports artists committed to artistic excellence. The gallery promotes artists from diverse backgrounds, offering a platform to reach wider audiences. Bolanle Contemporary hosts exhibitions that enhance public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Dark Matter is an inclusive marketing agency that works collaboratively to connect Black audiences with culture and the arts. Find out more here. Round Table Books is an inclusion-led bookshop. They sell books for every reader and run community projects, based in the heart of Brixton. They work with authors and illustrators that celebrate underrepresented experiences. Find out more here.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Taste of Freedom (2023) Original title: Смак Свободи Director: Alexander Berezan Runtime: 117 minutes Language: Ukrainian with Eng Sub Age Rating: 12+ Production: Ganzafilm Production Distributor: Splendid Film Synopsis: A young cook dreams of becoming a top chef in the big city. Her life changes when she discovers a rare 1929 cookbook by Ukrainian culinary pioneer Olga Franko. As she embraces traditional cooking, she also rediscovers her cultural roots and personal strength. Cast: • Iryna Kudashova • Pavlo Li • Tetiana Malkova • Tomasz Sobczak • Irma Vitovskaya • Rimma Zyubina Themes: Tradition vs modernity, female empowerment, food heritage
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Director: Tamara Kotevska Writer: Dan Crane Runtime: 80 minutes Genres: Documentary, Experimental Languages: Arabic, English Distributor: Together Films Age Rating: PG (recommended 9+) Synopsis: The Walk follows Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet representing a young Syrian refugee girl, on her journey from the Turkish-Syrian border across Europe in search of a safe home. A mix of vérité documentary and fantastical semi- scripted sequences, the film is a modern fairytale that highlights refugee experiences and resilience. Themes: Refugee crisis, childhood trauma, artistic activism, human rights. Notable Screenings: DOC NYC, CPH:DOX, Folkestone International Film Festival
Friday, 27 June 2025
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice? Relaxed screenings are designed to make cinema-going easier for those needing additional support, including neurodivergent audiences and those living with dementia. Find out more here: https://www.picturehouses.com/blog/relaxed-screenings
Friday, 22 March 2024
Based on the popular graphic novel by the North American writer Sara Varon, ROBOT DREAMS tells the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in NYC during the '80s.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Rocky Road to Berlin (2024) Original title: «Я, «Побєда» і Берлін» Country: Ukraine Duration: 104 minutes Genre: adventure, road movie, comedy Based on Kuzma Skryabin’s novel of the same name. Release in Ukraine: March 14, 2024 Language: Ukrainian with Eng Sub Age Rating: 12+ Produced by: UPHub with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and Golden Tile Written by: Oleksiy Komarovskyi, Nina Shulika, Anatoliy Krym Directed by: Olga Ryashina Executive Producers: Oleksiy Terentyev, Yuriy Artemenko, Olga Panteleimonova Director of Photography: Dmytro Nedria Production Designer: Mykola Kishchuk Cast: Ivan Blindar, Maria Stopnyk, Volodymyr Heva. Synopsis: The freewheeling 90s in the former USSR. Driving an old Pobeda car, Kuzma, an aspiring musician, sets out to Berlin together with his friend Bard three days before a scheduled concert. Rumors say there is a collector there who is ready to exchange the “yellow beast” for a Mercedes 600. Kuzma promises his girlfriend Barbara to return home in a new car, and the band members to be on time for their gig. From the very first minutes of the journey, things go awry. However, one thing is certain: the adventure will help the heroes find their true destiny. Home for Ukraine (Independent Film) Directed by Ksenia Bugrimova Filmmakers: Independent project, filmed in Surrey, UK Notable Narrator: Andrew Castle (former tennis champion) Co-narrator: Yulia Ivanova Language: English (dubbed) Release Year: Circa 2022 Synopsis: Home for Ukraine is a heartfelt documentary that intertwines the story of former British tennis champion Andrew Castle with that of Yulia Ivanova, a refugee from Mariupol. Their lives meet under the UK’s Homes for Ukraine programme, as Andrew opens his home to a family that has nowhere left to return to — their city has been wiped off the map. The film explores the themes of survival, resilience, and the search for peace far from home. It also features rare pre-war footage of the Azovstal Metallurgical Combine, filmed on 23 February 2022 — the day before the full-scale invasion. Today, the site no longer exists, making these images a haunting record of what has been lost.
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
For one night only, Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour, “This Is Not A Drill”, Live from Prague, in cinemas around the world. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “Is This The Life We Really Want?”. Waters will also debut his new song, “The Bar”. Waters will be joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake to deliver an unforgettable performance with a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious planet home.
Monday, 04 November 2013
A charming animated version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler's magical tale of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her loyal cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them all with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone.
Monday, 23 June 2025
S/HE IS STILL HER/E - THE OFFICIAL GENESIS P-ORRIDGE DOC Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now. In this authorised but raw and personal documentary, award-winning director David Charles Rodrigues (GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH) documents the final year of P-Orridge’s existence as they grapple with mortality and, in the process, reveal the many sacrifices and ultimate payoffs of a life that transcended boundaries. Featuring William Burroughs, Brion Gyson, Timothy Leary, Alice Genese (Psychic TV), David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets), Nepalese monks, African witch doctors, and a special cameo by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, plus never-before-seen archival treasures, including performances from Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
A showcase of fresh, fearless filmmaking from the next generation of storytellers. This diverse selection of student films highlights the incredible talent emerging from film schools across the globe. Very bold and inventive, the range of styles and techniques on display is impressive. Don’t be fooled by the word “student” — the quality here is outstanding, with work that easily holds its own alongside more seasoned productions. Come and discover tomorrow’s filmmakers, today. FEATURING: A MATTER OF POULTRY | dir. Nandini Bapat | 13 min | United States An ordinary guy on the cusp of starting his dream job finds out he's pregnant with an alien parasite. GRUB | dir. Cameron Elie | 7 min | United States Rumours swirl about an Alien's involvement in crimes such as murder and kidnapping. HEARTWARE | dir. Leander Behal | 15 min | Germany After his colleague self-destructs by eating ice cream, Android Clu tries to process his emotions. HYBRID | dir. Sophia Marriott | 16 min | United States Bella, an influencer and her best friend, Evelyn, an MIT graduate, are developing A.I. beauty assistants. LIMINAL | dir. Kyle Williams | 18 min | United Kingdom Riley has lived for eight years on the space shuttle LIGO 74, he now has one mission: to get back home. OVER THERE | dir. Shuqi Li | 5 min | United Kingdom A jobless woman is forced by financial pressure to sell her body and transform her consciousness into the digital world. S.I. SUPERFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | dir. Ash Williams | 11 min | United Kingdom Overwhelmed by an ever-growing pile of homework, two students build a deep-thinking, S.I. - Superficial Intelligence to do it for them. WASTELAND | dir. Servaes Dewispelaere | 23 min | Belgium An algorithmologist begins to question his beliefs when a woman shows up at his office.
Thursday, 29 May 2025
How would you live your life if you got a second chance? By 2064, the planet is on the brink, devastated by climate collapse. Henrik is a brilliant young physicist whose team develops a fusion reactor capable of providing endless clean energy. But when their invention is hijacked for profit, the dream turns into a nightmare. In a final bid to save humanity, the UN deploys a radical form of time travel, one that sends a person’s consciousness back to the moment of their birth. Henrik is chosen to go back and steer the world away from disaster. But when things go wrong, he wakes up in an unfamiliar body, facing a very different life, and the same ticking clock. This is a thought-provoking and emotionally rich film that blends grounded drama with speculative sci-fi. It asks urgent questions about identity, accountability, and why, despite all we know, we still struggle to change.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
The year is 2147. Earth is silent, scorched, and dying. A chemical war has rendered all men sterile, and humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. In an underground bunker, conservation biologist Tania (Sophie Gaëlle) works tirelessly to preserve the species, aided by VIDA (voiced by Paz Vega), an AI system with a growing sense of self. Their isolation is disrupted by the arrival of Azarías (Jalsen Santana), a mysterious traveller whose presence challenges the fragile balance they’ve maintained. This is a visually arresting sci-fi drama that delves into themes of survival, trust, and the complexities of human–AI relationships. A significant contribution to Caribbean science fiction cinema.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Sci-Fi-London: Authorised Realities Only - Shorts Programme 6 Step into a world where dystopia is not a destination, but a condition of existence. Here, speculative futures and altered presents become lenses through which to examine our fractured reality. From the ruins of civilisation to eerily familiar techno-utopias gone awry, each film in Authorised Realities Only offers a distinct vision of what happens when systems fail, identities fragment, and technology rewrites the rules of being. FEATURING: FISH | dir. Bishrel Mashbat | 6 min | United States An obscenely wealthy couple's night out, at an elite and very eccentric restaurant shows that money can buy anything. DO BANGLADROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC TAGORE? | dir. Aleem Hossain | 3 min | United States In the year 2065, a Bangladeshi-American documentarian explores what the Bangladroids recall of their homeland. DISSOCIATION | dir. Hugo Livet | 5 min | France In a world devoid of humans, ordinary objects come alive, borrowing the forces of nature to transcend their static existence. FACTORY DROP | dir. Petja Pulkrabek | 15 min | Germany In the year 2118, a gigantic skyscraper called the Factory rises above the ruins of the old world. In the lower floors, forced labourers toil tirelessly to produce diamonds. KINTSUGI ANGEL | dir. Lukas Huffman | 10 min | United States Filmmaker Lukas Huffman crafts a haunting visual poem featuring the wearable sculptures of Erika Senft Miller. PROJECT AETERNA | dir. Dennis Sungmin Kim | 16 min | Korea, Republic of Humanity’s enduring desire for eternity in a world that relentlessly pursues technological progress at all costs. THE GENERATORS | dir. Georgie Cowan-Turner | 13 min | Ireland Oscar and his ailing husband struggle with a medical system where energy credits are the new currency. THE POWER OF INK | dir. Karen Elaine Lutz | 7 min | United States When society divides into sectors and drones are everywhere, who can you really trust? WILBERT WIRE | dir. Ricky Townsend | 13 min | New Zealand You would expect a robot to be many things, but perhaps not a student at your local art school.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
BEST WAYS TO OPTIMISE YOUR LIFE - SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 The ultimate guide to living smarter, longer and maybe even stranger. Ever dreamt of living forever, measuring your happiness, or entrusting your fate to algorithms? Curious what happens when death disappears, or when a pill promises a better version of reality? In this collection of sharp, darkly funny, and speculative shorts, life hacks take some very unexpected turns. Welcome to the future of self-improvement—side effects included. FEATURING: ANWAR | dir. Fawaz Al-Matrouk | 19 min | Canada Anwar is a sci-fi about a mother who chose to live forever, and a son who longs for heaven. DEEPHEIST | dir. Glen Vivaris | 10 min | United States Four activists race to steal the code of the first A.G.I. CEO. GLIESE | dir. Jorge Guimerá | 20 min | Spain Nacho wakes up on the advanced planet Gliese, where he discovers that death does not exist. HAPPY PEOPLE | dir. Balázs Budavári | 15 min | Hungary Everyone displays their Happiness Index on their neck. At his mandatory Annual Happiness check, Kristóf thinks hiding his number will help him. LAST NIGHT | dir. Ryan Mack | 14 min | United States After falling for his client, a seemingly straightforward in-home massage takes an unsettling turn. WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH | dir. Tristan Patrick Sherfield | 10 min | United Kingdom Brian's night out takes a seriously wrong turn when he and his mate Reg ingest some bizarre pills. PARK ASSIST | dir. Robert Sluys | 8 min | Netherlands An android tests its brand-new human parking assist system.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Caihong City, a post-apocalyptic wasteland where glitches, unicorns and desperation swirl beneath neon skies. In the slums of this fractured metropolis, a dying Chinese genius named Liu Junjie races to complete a Supertask—an impossibly complex challenge that could earn him passage into the neighbouring utopia, Furui City. But as he builds ‘the map’ (a perfect virtual replica of Caihong), a strange glitch appears, and with it, everything begins to unravel. Enter Serioja, a cryptic Russian drifter, and Lavinia, a fierce, self-destructive Romanian prostitute. Together, they set out across the rainbow-lit sectors of the city, chasing answers and uncovering a truth darker than any of them imagined. A sci-fi fairy tale of filth, loneliness, and corrupted dreams.bIt’s glitchy. It’s grimy. It’s glorious.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
We are happy for you to bring your dog along to this special dog-friendly screening (you're welcome without a dog too). Before the screening there are a few things to consider: If you attend this screening with a dog, you'll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, we will provide bowls of water around the screen. We will leave lighting levels a little higher than usual during the screening and lower the volume of the soundtrack. Please be aware that we reduce capacity when offering ‘dog-friendly’ screenings, so there may be fewer tickets than usual. We limit dogs to: one dog to one adult. For further information, see dog-friendly screening policy in our cinema. When a bumbling security guard accidentally feeds a top-secret growth formula to Digby, an Old English Sheepdog, the oversized pup escapes, sparking wild adventures and panic across the country. Join us for a truly tail-wagging treat as we present a special dog-friendly screening of Digby, The Biggest Dog in the World! For the first time at this cinema, you can bring your dog and your kids to enjoy this charming 1973 British comedy on the big screen. Whether you’re nostalgic for Digby’s oversized antics or introducing the next generation to this cult classic, it’s the perfect family outing—with paws included! Why not stick around after the screening for SCI-FIDO—our legendary pet cosplay parade? Let’s see your dog in their finest sci-fi or fantasy costume. Prizes, photos, and intergalactic cuteness guaranteed!
Saturday, 21 June 2025
ERROR 404: LOVE NOT FOUND - SHORTS PROGRAMME 3 We’re all pretty obsessed with dating apps these days, swiping, matching, ghosting, and these stories take that obsession to the next level. In these futuristic worlds, dating is a bit different: from sniffing someone’s scent to see if there’s a match, to navigating relationships with sex robots, and even aliens. Explore how we might chase connections when the rules get rewritten and things get a bit… strange. FEATURING: FIRST SIGHT | dir. Andrew McGee | 19 min | United Kingdom Luna's dating life takes a dark turn in this story about love, loss, and augmented reality. GOOSEBUMPS | dir. Jessica Riches | 5 min | United Kingdom A horny woman finds ways to keep busy when she sends her sex robot back to the factory because he is no longer able to satisfy her. DON'T WATCH THIS | dir. Daniel Pineros | 15 min | United States A woman slowly realises she's a character in a movie. Everyone around her dismisses her as delusional—unaware that she's the only one who knows we are watching. MARRIAGE UNPLUGGED | dir. Florine & Kim Nüesch | 15 min | Switzerland, United Kingdom Suzanna and Andrew have been unhappy for a while. When yet another argument prompts the couple to venture into a sex robot shop. SHEPHERD MOON | dir. Michaela Wadzinski | 11 min | United States The power struggle between an alien and her human test subject gets complicated when they both see their relationship differently. THEY | dir. Aaron Margolis-Greenbaum, Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum | 5 min | United States Deaf people navigate finding love with the assistance of artificial intelligence. THE SPACE YOU NEED | dir. Sam Peter Jackson | 21 min | United Kingdom Julian is facing a slump in his relationship. So will his fiancé Leo's trip into orbit provide them with just the space they need to get back on track? PLOP | dir. Darius Shu | 7 min | United Kingdom A desperate woman from the society of rejected singles, known as the Leftovers, takes a bold leap of faith on a revolutionary new dating app.
Thursday, 29 May 2025
What if you could hit pause on life itself? Charlie (Myles Erlick), a 29-year-old aspiring video game designer, sees his world change when his friend Gibbs (Sean Astin), a toy shop owner, hands him a mysterious device that can stop time. Suddenly, Charlie’s world becomes a playground where seconds freeze and possibilities multiply. But messing with time isn’t just a trick. As Charlie dives deeper into this strange power, he’s forced to confront the ethical dilemmas and personal consequences that come with bending reality. Caught between ambition, regret, and temptation, he must decide whether controlling time means controlling his fate or losing it altogether. A fabulous feel-good movie with some brilliant game graphics —Ready Player One?
Sunday, 22 June 2025
In a future where memories can be stored, hacked or wiped in the digital cloud, reality feels more fragile than ever before. These stories dig into the chaos of trying to hold on to or erase the past through risky brain surgery, dodgy implants and technology that messes with your mind. From twisted tales of love to mind-bending glitches, this collection asks what it means when your memories no longer belong to you. DARK CLOUD MEMORIES | dir. Seung-hee Jung | 12 min | Korea, Republic of In a world where memories are stored digitally in the cloud. A young woman undergoes brain surgery for perfect recall. GOODBYE WORLD | dir. Kimia Ipakchi | 11 min | United Kingdom Set in a world where human beings are digitally uploading their consciousness, it is GIRL’s turn to sign up. DECKSDARK | dir. Unknown | 16 min | United Kingdom In a realm where consciousness is encased within neural implants, Logan, a Decksdark, finds himself intertwined with an ethereal entity. HUBBLE TENSION | dir. Brandon Foy | 13 min | United States A chronically distracted man undergoes an experimental eye treatment, only to face unexpected consequences that distort his reality in increasingly surreal ways. NEURO | dir. Wes Ellis | 14 min | United States In the late 1970s, and after a traumatic event on their honeymoon, a struggling couple visit an experimental, and borderline unethical, memory research facility. OK/NOTOK | dir. Pardeep Sahota | 13 min | United Kingdom Loretta attempts to navigate a turbulent world, a new stranger in her life and unskippable adverts. THE REWIND | dir. Mikel Wisler, Diana Porter | 11 min | United States Josh is desperate to get back his wife, He turns to a new technology that allows users to re-live a difficult moment.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Norma’s life has stalled since her partner Henri mysteriously vanished. Stuck in a dead-end job and raising their child alone, her only escape is sleep, where Henri still visits her in vivid, lucid dreams. But when she wakes one morning inexplicably pregnant, those dreams begin to bleed into waking life. As reality twists and time unravels, Norma talks to a new employee at her firm, Mikka, a person linked to Henri and his sleep experiments, who has some secrets of her own. Together, they explore the fragile boundary between the subconscious and the real, chasing answers buried deep in the mind. A quietly surreal, hypnotic and deeply human story, the film explores grief, longing, and the power of dreams to both heal and haunt. Dreams can be a refuge. But what if they become the only place that feels real?
Friday, 20 June 2025
Jump into a surreal, dystopian world where everyone wears a paper bag over their head— literally! This breathtaking animated feature blends politics, philosophy and cyber-noir into an eclectic vision of the future. In a city of conformity and control, one disillusioned government employee accidentally stumbles upon a mysterious rebel movement challenging the system. What follows is a hypnotic journey through dreamlike cityscapes, corporate nightmares, and whispered revolutions. With stunning animation and a voice cast that includes Asia Argento, Gaspar Noé, and Anurag Kashyap, this movie isn’t simply another animated indie film, it offers something much more. If you like your sci-fi with brains, beauty and a healthy dose of rebellion, don’t miss this future cult classic.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Sci-Fi-London: Somewhere out There- Shorts Programme 5 From deep space to the odd bit of cat-sitting gone wrong, these stories explore the strange side of life across the universe. Expect ambitious missions, accidental encounters, and a few questionable decisions; whether you’re stuck on a space station, behind enemy lines, or just trying to keep things from falling apart back on Earth. A collection full of surprises, heart, and a healthy dose of the unexpected. FEATURING: DISTANT BLUESHIFT | dir. Aloysius Ong | 11 min | Singapore A young boy believes his father is on a faraway space station. But AI technology will alter the father-son relationship in ways he could never have imagined. EUREKA! | dir. Kris Borghs | 10 min | Belgium An extraterrestrial duo crosses the universe to share technological insights with less brilliant minds. On one peculiar planet, things don't quite go as planned. EXIMO | dir. Mayed Al Qasimi | 20 min | United Kingdom Merald and Shaylyn, two skilled engineers, are part of a pioneering mission to the outer reaches of Earth’s solar system. INTERCEPTION | dir. Peter McCully | 9 min | New Zealand Danny’s big weekend away from the chore of cat-sitting is about to turn weird, or worse still - downright dangerous! OCEAN'S PLAYBOOK | dir. Samual Dawes | 30 min | United Kingdom Owen and his team are handed an ultimatum after being caught stealing a priceless piece of art from none other than his eccentric brother. THE EDENBOUND | dir. Andrew McGee | 13 min | United Kingdom Amid an unending planetary war, a pilot’s loyalty is tested when she crashes into enemy territory.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
Sci-Fi-London: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror From its origins as a London fringe theatre play to its meteoric rise, fall and resurrection as the biggest cult film of all time, this is the definitive story of The Rocky Horror Show. With intimate access to its creator Richard O’Brien and other major players such as Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Lou Adler, the documentary explores what makes the play and film so singular: Its groundbreaking and transgressive themes, iconic performances and epic songs that took over popular culture. The cult phenomenon that sprang around it is unparalleled, and created not only the midnight screenings which continue to this day, but also a safe haven for those who have ever felt different or marginalised. Come for SCI-FIDO, or Brunch—dress for glamour, camp or just in your PJs. This wonderful documentary will warm your heart.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Welcome to the badlands of post-apocalyptic Serbia—where everything’s broken, brutal, and boiling with rage. When a young warrior’s family is slaughtered, there’s only one thing left to do: pick up a sword, hop on a bike, and carve a bloody path across the wasteland. But revenge isn’t simple, and neither is survival. Along the way, he must face deranged warlords, radioactive cults, and visions that may not be real… or may be worse than reality. Ćeranić delivers a gritty, full-throttle epic bursting with punk energy, twisted folklore, and stunning set-pieces. With bone-crunching fights, strange visions, and a world held together with scrap metal and sheer anger, this film is a remarkable Serbian production and is a gloriously unhinged ride through the ruins. If you like your cinema loud, mad, and covered in dust, this one’s for you. Maybe bring earplugs!
Sunday, 22 June 2025
In a future where Earth’s atmosphere has become toxic, survival depends on an expensive drug, manufactured and tightly controlled by the powerful biotech corporation Aethera. The wealthy live safely behind sealed barriers, while the rest of the population struggles to survive in crumbling cities beneath a poisoned sky. A rising model and the public face of Aethera is exposed to a mysterious experimental compound at a party, and her body begins to undergo frightening changes. As her transformation accelerates, she uncovers a disturbing conspiracy behind Aethera’s so called miracle cure and the true cost of society’s dependence on it. Egan delivers a slick and stylish sci-fi thriller exploring biohacking, identity, and the cost of corporate ambition. Visually striking and sharply told, The Fix offers a thought-provoking glimpse into a future where the boundaries of humanity are dangerously unclear.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
In a desolate future, Theodore (Elias Koteas) serves a life sentence alone on a remote planet, his only companion the haunting echoes of his past. His solitude is disrupted by the arrival of Niyya (Briana Middleton), a new inmate whose presence forces Theodore to confront memories he thought he’d long suppressed. As their uneasy coexistence unfolds, paranoia and mistrust grow, blurring the line between reality and delusion. A gripping piece of cerebral sci-fi, the film explores isolation, memory, and the fragile nature of identity. Both stark and lyrical, it’s a haunting meditation on what connects us—and what we try to leave behind. Are memories real if they have no connection to the world we now live in? Can we ever truly leave it all behind?
Friday, 20 June 2025
Edgar thinks he can see the future, his wife thinks he’s lost the plot, and his daughter isn’t sure what to believe. But when strangers appear at their door, saying they are from Double Star Accounting, it’s clear something very odd is going on. Written and directed by Chris Messineo, this film is a sharp, unsettling and darkly funny feature that plays with perception, truth and quiet paranoia. Tightly scripted and confidently performed, it’s a story that keeps you guessing and leaves you thinking. Low on budget but high on invention, this is a great debut and a fine example of indie sci-fi at its best—imaginative, clever, and just the right side of unhinged.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
A colourful group of furry, plush-like aliens descends from the sky with a seemingly grim mission: to exterminate humanity and put an end to the damage inflicted on Earth. But these visitors are no ordinary invaders, brought to life through intricate puppetry rather than visual effects, they have a soft, almost playful feel that contrasts with their apocalyptic goal. As the aliens meet a range of humans, their views begin to soften through a series of awkward yet heartfelt interactions. Blending musical numbers, dry humour, drama and a splash of classic sci-fi, the film explores themes of identity and human connection to oneself and the world around. With a deliberately measured pace and lo-fi aesthetics, the story leans into surrealism, and through its puppetry and catchy soundtrack, this existential musical invites viewers to reflect on empathy, hope, and the possibility of coexistence in an increasingly fragmented world—think The Day the Earth Stood Still meets The Flumps!
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Screenwriting Salons are designed to give writers a forum to share, discuss and develop their work. Through guided discussion, writing exercises and feedback, you’ll have a chance to move your idea forward – and have a dedicated time and place to write, once a fortnight. Whilst these sessions are ideal for anyone with a project already underway, everyone is welcome – whether you’ve only got the seed of an idea and want to see where it might go, or even if you’d just like the opportunity to spend some time with fellow writers. Come along and see where your ideas might take you! Hosted by Abigail Webber, a writer, script editor and lecturer in Screenwriting. Programmed in partnership with the Sir John Hurt Film Trust.
Wednesday, 02 July 2025
Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
Friday, 04 July 2025
To follow the acclaim for An American in Paris, which won him the 1951 Oscar for best picture, songwriter-turned-producer Arthur Freed charged screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green with writing a musical based around some of his own most popular early songs. The result was a nostalgic tribute to the Hollywood of a bygone era starring Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, the swashbuckling silent star at a film studio grappling with the coming of sound. From the iconic scene in which Lockwood, smitten with young actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), dances home during a downpour singing the title song, to the extended ballet sequence featuring Cyd Charisse in a parody of the gangster film, Singin’ in the Rain represents the musical genre at its most energetic and ambitious.
Sunday, 06 July 2025
Winner of Best Narrative Feature at The South London Film Festival 2025. The touching story of a child from a Pontic refugee family who managed to survive and thrive against all odds, thanks to his immense talent and resilience in the face of social and personal challenges. Music, love, family, friends, fishing, creativity, people of the night, hardcore fans, and intense conflicts come together to create the mosaic of his life. This film is a tribute to legendary singer, Stelios Kazantzidis, whose voice touched the hearts of all Greeks around the world. A film for those who loved him and those who wish to discover him.
Sunday, 20 July 2025
Winner of Best Documentary Feature at The South London Film Festival 2025 50 years since the violence that divided the island of Cyprus. The Divided Island brings the ‘Cyprus problem’ back into focus, revealing untold stories and unravelling the intricate history that still reverberates today. Amidst the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, the world has largely forgotten the frozen divide that has left Nicosia as Europe’s last divided capital. Join us for this special screening and Q&A on the 51st Anniversary of the invasion of Cyprus.
Friday, 22 August 2025
A newcomer to a prestigious ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amidst a series of grisly murders.
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Friday, 15 August 2025
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
Friday, 27 June 2025
John Huston’s much-loved adventure pits a prim missionary and a cynical river captain against German gunboats and natural hazards in East Africa in 1915. The African Queen is surrounded in legend: for the unlikely pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart (who won his only Best Actor Oscar for his performance), and the logistical nightmares and clashes of temperament which attended the shoot.
Friday, 18 October 2024
The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump's ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Friday, 30 May 2025
We're delighted to welcome members of the filmmaking team for a Q&A after the shows. In attendance will be: Sat 7 June - Hackney: - Tim Key Sun 8 June - The Gate: James Griffiths, Tim Key, Tom Basden Sat 14 June - Greenwich: Tim Key Sun 22 June - Ritzy: Tim Key, Tom Basden Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates and former lovers agree to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
Thursday, 09 June 2022
Are you a Movie Buff, a Film Connoisseur or a Wannabe Director? Ready to show off your movie knowledge whilst winning some one of a kind prizes and supporting charity all at the same time? Then get yourselves down to The Big Ritzy Quiz the first Sunday of every month. Our fantastic Ritzy Picturehouse team will be your Quiz Masters, putting your knowledge to the test!
Friday, 04 July 2025
A semi-autobiographical tale based on Spielberg's own childhood. Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
From visionary director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy and Stoker) comes The Handmaiden, a sumptuous and exhilarating period thriller inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel 'Fingersmith'. Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s, a young handmaiden named Sookee (Kim Tae-ri) is hired by Hideko (Kim Min-hee), a reclusive heiress who lives in a sprawling mansion under the watchful eye of her domineering Uncle Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong). But Sookee harbours a secret: she has been recruited by Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo), a scheming con artist posing as a Japanese Count, to trick Hideko into entrusting him with her fortune. However, when Sookee and Hideko begin to develop unexpected emotions for each other, they start putting together a plan of their own. With breathtaking visuals, grandiose set design and frenzied humour, The Handmaiden is one of the year’s most anticipated films - an opulent and labyrinthine tale of deception, romance and triple-crossing that marks a career high for one of modern cinema’s most thrilling auteurs.
Friday, 09 May 2025
Presented in partnership with the Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre, this special screening opens with a live performance of traditional klezmer music by the University of Edinburgh’s student band, led by Dr. Phil Alexander. The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust. An interview with the 99-year-old Lasker-Wallfisch, the only living survivor to have played in one of the camp orchestras, frames the documentary. The film highlights the stories of three other musicians from all over Europe: showcased in a series of powerful performances. The film touches on themes of loss, longing and cultural memory and addresses head on the barbaric and murderous regime at the Nazis' most notorious death camp. The film reflects on the power that music had during the War, amidst a cacophony of pain and degradation, offering a note of defiance and hope.
Friday, 30 May 2025
It started as a concert. It became a celebration. Join an unparalleled lineup of rock superstars as they celebrate The Band’s historic 1976 Thanksgiving Day farewell performance. Directed by Martin Scorsese, “The Last Waltz” is not only “the most beautiful rock film ever made” (The New Yorker)…it’s “one of the most important cultural events of the last two decades” (Rolling Stone)! Featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and more.
Saturday, 16 December 2023
One marathon to rule them all! To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Return of the King, join Frodo and the Fellowship for an all-day adventure that might just rival any quest to Mordor: catching all three chapters of The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy on the big screen. This screening includes a 15-minute interval between films, with a total runtime of 12 hours and 7 minutes. Please note that due to licensing requirements at Duke's at Komedia only, attendees must be 18 or over.
Friday, 20 June 2025
Directed by Rupert Julian, and based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, classic silent horror masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera stars Lon Chaney, in one of his most grotesque performances as the crazed man without a face, who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, and falls in love with the voice of a young opera singer. Infatuated, he kidnaps her, dragging her to the depths below where she will sing only for him.
Sunday, 06 July 2025
Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation. Screening from a newly restored 2K DCP.
Friday, 25 July 2025
Underpinned by complex moral themes and spectacular vistas of Monument Valley, The Searchers follows a grizzled war veteran (John Wayne in one of the best performances of his career) on an obsessive five-year odyssey to rescue his niece from the Comanches who abducted her. It’s a grim quest, but one which is miraculously purified of its furies in a final moment of epiphany. For many, it’s the greatest film in the genre. ★★★★ “In the flawed vision of The Searchers we can see Ford, Wayne and the Western itself, awkwardly learning that a man who hates Indians can no longer be an uncomplicated hero.” – Roger Ebert
Friday, 01 August 2025
New 2K digital restorations of six short films by Lynch: Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995), Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place.
Friday, 04 July 2025
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
Friday, 20 December 2019
A classic family animation based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. A restless young snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on a whale's tail. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the snail feels very small in the vastness of it all. But when the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail who saves the day.
Friday, 03 October 2025
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual journey. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Asil, a young Syrian refugee, tells her story through Little Amal, a 12ft puppet symbolising millions of displaced children. Little Amal’s journey from the Syrian border in Turkey across Europe is one of compassion and discovery. The Walk is not a typical documentary. It mixes vérité documentary with fantastical semi-scripted elements to create a fairytale for children and adults alike.. London Breeze Film Festival is delighted to once again be supporting Refugee Week and this year's theme of 'Community as a Superpower'. Join us at The Ritzy and follow the 3,000-mile journey made by Little Amal and her puppeteers representing every child's need for comfort, welcome, safety and a home. The screening will be followed by a free 30-minute interactive puppetry demonstration from the world renowned Little Angel Puppet Theatre, who will bring along two puppets made and operated in similar ways to Little Amal - made by the creators of the War Horse puppets.
Friday, 14 February 2025
Animated special feature adapted from the picture book story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler that follows a little fish with a big imagination who entertains friends with tall tales. One day, Tiddler gets lost but is saved by his own storytelling.
Friday, 15 August 2025
In the homely little town of Deerfield, an FBI agent disappears into thin air during an investigation into the mysterious murder of teenager Teresa Banks. Prompted by a series of strange, haunting visions and uncanny supernatural encounters, fellow Agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan), becomes certain that the murderer will strike again. Meanwhile, a year on from these events in the nearby town of Twin Peaks, Homecoming Queen Laura Palmer is on a hedonistic path leading nowhere good... At once prologue and epilogue to Lynch's iconic television series, Fire Walk With Me entered into cult history with the same strange, heady brew of folksy Americana and weird symbolism. Screening in a beautifully restored version join us in a world where the birds sing a pretty song and there’s always music in the air. Costumes and logs welcome. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 20 June 2025
As part of David Lynch’s Dream Theatre our year-long celebration of the inimitable filmmaker, we’re thrilled to bring his groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks to the big screen for the first time. Step in between the fir trees and solve one of the small screen’s most enduring mysteries: who killed Laura Palmer? Season 1, Episode 5: The One-Armed Man The investigation progresses as Agent Cooper questions Laura's psychiatrist, Dr. Jacoby, who has some suspicions of his own. Meanwhile, Gordon Cole, Cooper's supervisor, calls in; mill owner Josie Packard spies on Ben Horne and Catherine Martell; Deputy Hawk tracks down the One-Armed Man from Cooper's dream; and Audrey Horne decides to begin her own investigation. Season 1, Episode 6: Cooper’s Dream Agent Cooper, Sheriff Truman and company have tea with eccentric local the Log Lady, who tells them there was another suspicious man around on the night Laura died - and leads them to discover a macabre crime scene in the woods. James and Donna take Madeleine Ferguson, Laura's doppelganger cousin, into their confidence.
Friday, 27 June 2025
As part of David Lynch’s Dream Theatre our year-long celebration of the inimitable filmmaker, we’re thrilled to bring his groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks to the big screen for the first time. Step in between the fir trees and solve one of the small screen’s most enduring mysteries: who killed Laura Palmer? Season 1, Episode 7: Realisation Time Agent Cooper and team pay a special visit to One Eyed Jack's, while Audrey Horne attempts to go undercover as a hostess there. Meanwhile, Josie Packard shares her suspicions with Truman about Catherine Martell's intentions, and Dr. Jacoby receives a phone call from the dead Laura Palmer. Season 1, Episode 8: The Last Evening Agent Cooper and Sherif Truman's investigation builds to a terrifying conclusion as they hone in on Jacques Renault, now their prime suspect, who has details to divulge about Laura Palmer’s final hours.
Sunday, 13 July 2025
When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality.
Sunday, 12 December 2021
All Vinyl Rejoicing In Reggae Of All Styles So what goes on? * Miss Feelgood (Shirley Slattery) And Debbie Golt (both formerly of Sisters of Reggae) will play fabulous full sets later in the evening - going head to head 1 2 1 at the end and ... Mc Mad X will be gracing the mic with her topnotch inimitable style. * Kicking off with a welcome set from the Resident/Guest Djs * Followed by superb short sets from Womxn who may be resuming DJ-ing, not playing that often or have never played out and who have stunning record collections - they always step up brilliantly! The host DJ’s are on hand to help as needed. On April 6th Vinyl Sisters are hosting an extra special one off night where they will be joined by their Vinyl Brothers!
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
The Windrush Caribbean Film Festival (WCFF) brings the stories of the Windrush generation and their descendants to life through the lens of film. Now in its sixth year, the festival connects audiences across the UK and the global diaspora through powerful storytelling that explores identity, migration, and belonging. www.windrushfilmfestival.com The programme includes the acclaimed documentary Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, celebrating the legacy of of the trailblazing British funk band whose music gained cult status in the US despite being largely overlooked at home. The film shines a light on their cultural significance as Black British pioneers in music. The screening will also feature a selection of short films: Remembering BRAFA, marking the 40th anniversary of the song that became Hackney’s answer to Live Aid, animated shorts courtesy of Film London’s FLAMIN Animations programme. Dédé (Ancestor) by Yasmine Djédjé-Fisher-Azoumé, an exploration of diasporic female identity through the lens of Ivorian folklore and feminine iconography, and Mother Tongue by Duncan Senkumba, a vivid journey through Uganda’s urban and natural landscapes that reflects on language, identity, and home. Love Language by dir: Damien Nembhard dives deep into gritty social dynamics, told through the lens of modern-day love languages and emotional manipulation. and Cocoa Butter Wishes a short film by the OYA Emerging Filmmakers Y6 Cohort, when a mysterious birthday gift, a jar of cocoa butter, turns out to house a Genie, an aspiring 20-something writer struggles to figure out what’ to wish for. WCFF 2025 is presented in partnership with ALT A REVIEW, multimedia platform founded by Joy Coker. ALT A REVIEW (www.alt-africa.com) dedicated to amplifying voices of Black, Brown, and minority ethnic creatives across arts, film, theatre, and beyond, in both print and digital. For more details on the full festival line-up and screening locations, visit: www.windrushfilmfestival.com
Friday, 18 July 2025
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor. Part of David Lynch's Dream Theatre, a year-long tribute to an artist from another place. Our monthly screening of a Lynch masterpiece will also be paired with one film cited as an inspiration.
Friday, 25 April 2025
Wind, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation. Journeying through rivers, coastlines, and open seas, spanning the UK, the Netherlands, and France, Wind, Tide & Oar creates a contemplative space, addressing themes of ecology, heritage, traditional skills, and maritime history. Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft, upended by the invention of mechanised power. Through the film’s reveries, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with and responsibility to the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability, and our care for the world around us.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
The Windrush Caribbean Film Festival comes to Brixton with an evening that explores the power of food to shape identity, inspire entrepreneurship and connect generations. We will screen three compelling films – Sugar Dumplin, Burnt Milk and Roots of Resilience – each highlighting how food is more than nourishment. It is memory, healing, history and heritage. These cinematic stories set the stage for a powerful conversation about building a food business rooted in Caribbean culture. Panel Discussion Following the screenings, join us for a 50-minute panel with two exceptional Caribbean food entrepreneurs. Together they will discuss: How Caribbean culinary traditions shaped their path into business The challenges and achievements of building a food enterprise in Britain What it means to honour cultural roots while growing a brand How the values of belonging, being and becoming influence their work and legacy This event will resonate with food lovers, aspiring entrepreneurs and anyone interested in Caribbean culture and storytelling.
Sunday, 22 June 2025
In Wings of Desire, director Wim Wenders’ most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Every day, Dammiel (Bruno Ganz) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist whose eloquent expression of her doubts and fears makes him yearn for a life where he can feel happiness and love.
Friday, 04 July 2025
Kaya Scodelario (Skins) as Cathy and James Howson as Heathcliff lead an impressive British cast in this timeless tale of two of the most memorable lovers in literature. A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer's daughter. One of the most startlingly original, gritty and radical adaptations of Emily Brontë's novel nevertheless remains utterly faithful to the text’s essential roots. Eschewing none of the style that made her early work so unique, Andrea Arnold captures the spirit of life on the Yorkshire moors and the danger of an illicit romance. Beautifully shot by Robbie Ryan, who makes the most of the harsh climate and misty landscape, this is a refreshing take on a familiar story.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Follow the adventures of Xavier, Yadina, and Brad, as they travel back in time to meet famous heroes of the past and learn how to be their own heroes of the present! Episode 3: I am Mary Shelley Mary Shelley shows Xavier that it’s okay if he doesn’t like telling spooky stories around a campfire, he should tell stories his own way. Episode 4: I am Harry Houdini Harry Houdini shows Brad that when he’s scared, he can take a deep breath to calm down and feel better.
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler Directed by: Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon Starring: Patsy Ferran, Kit Harington, Sir Lenny Henry, Hugh Skinner, Tracey Ullman A half hour family film based on the much loved picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. ZOG is the story of a keen young dragon who wants to learn how to fly, roar, and breathe fire in his first years at Dragon School. He’s desperate to impress his teacher and win a golden star, but he’s accident prone and each year he has to be helped by a kind young girl who patches up his bumps and bruises. Then in Year Four, he has to capture a princess - can the young girl help him with his trickiest challenge yet?
Monday, 21 June 2021
Pearl and Gadabout are now a flying doctor trio, caring for creatures including a mermaid, a unicorn and a sneezy lion. However when bad weather forces them to land at the palace, Pearl is locked up by her uncle, the king.