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A man takes a photograph of another man standing next to an old cinema projector in a garden.
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New East Cinema: The Return of the Projectionist

In a remote village in Azerbaijan's Talysh Mountains, Samid, a television repairman, is trying to fix his old Soviet projector and revive the local cinema.

A man stands in front of a bleak room looking at light projected on to a wall.
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One Second & Screentalk with Dr. Jie Li and Dr. Chris Berry

This film and conversation explores the Cultural Revolution's impact on China, by looking at how cinema has been used as a tool of both resistance and propaganda.

Two women wearing pink smile at each other, one has her stomach showing to reveal a large baby bump.
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Relaxed Screening: Babes

A carefree woman gets pregnant from a one night stand in this Bridesmaids-esque comedy starring Ilana Glazer.

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Conclave + ScreenTalk with director Edward Berger

We are thrilled to welcome director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) who will be live onstage, in conversation with Barbican New Release Cinema Curator Sonia Zadurian after the film.

A small bug floats to the bottom of a pont.
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LIAF 2024: Family Film Club: Amazing Animations

This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 11 of the best, most recent short animated films.

Conclave
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Parent & Baby Screening: Conclave

Director Edward Berger's (All Quiet on the Western Front) new thriller follows one of the world's most secretive events - selecting the new Pope, tasked to Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes). 

A press still with Jodie Comer for Prima Facie
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National Theatre Live: Prima Facie

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

A grand hallway with an ensemble cast
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MET Opera Live: Tosca

The story of the tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca and her fight to save her lover from the twisted chief of police.

A group of men walk down a street in an aged photograph.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: Report to Mother + Introduction

Embedded in the socio-political contexts of Kerala in the 1980s, this road movie-come-political chronicle explores themes of grief, solidarity, and the cost of political revolution.  

2024 Cinema LIAF Best of Fest
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Cinema

LIAF 2024: Closing Night Gala - The Best of the Fest

It all comes down to this …The Best Of The Fest! The judges have deliberated, the audience votes have been added up and we’ve pulled together a final programme that celebrates the highlights. 

2024 Cinema LIAF Best of Fest
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Cinema

LIAF 2024: The Best of the Fest - REPEAT

It all comes down to this …The Best Of The Fest!

Amy Adams runs down a dark street, surrounded by dogs
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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: Preview: Nightbitch

Domesticity takes a surreal turn as Amy Adams takes on the beast that is motherhood in this hilarious dark comedy. 

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Cinema

Death Without Mercy + ScreenTalk with Waad Al-Kateab &...

Death Without Mercy captures the destruction caused to Turkish and Syrian communities after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region in the early hours of 6 February 2023.

Two young boys lie on logs by a river covered in green algae.
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Cinema

Sine Screen: Precarious Landscapes 01

Experimental films from Thailand, Vietnam, China and Korea, that look at how we relate to the land around us, through mythical, decolonial and sensory lenses.

A statue of a folder stands with a flag in its head.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: In the Name of God

This provocative documentary by Anand Patwardhan explores the intense and turbulent socio-political landscape of India in the early 1990s.