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A hand holds a photograph showing a child in uniform standing in Tiananmen Square. Both the earlier photo and person holding the image are stood in the same location.
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Blink of an Eye: Beijing’s Urbanisation on Film

A selection of short documentary and experimental films that trace urban construction and development in Beijing and its surrounding areas across five decades.

Two men bathe in a night pool.
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Night Fever + ScreenTalk

An evening of experimental film, marking the publication of the new book Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark (Walther Koenig, 2024).  

Two woman in the 1980s walk Hollywood Boulevard
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Parent and Baby Screening: MaXXXine

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Mia Goth stars in this soon-to-be-classic slasher film set in the dark depths of 1980s Hollywood, as we follow Maxine's journey towards stardom, despite a spate of murders engulfing the city.

Image of man leaning against wall by a window
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Cinema Talks & events

Cardboard Citizens: More Than One Story + ScreenTalk

More Than One Story is a series of nine monologue films exploring the multiple realities of homelessness. Join us for the first public screening and a panel discussion with author Malorie Blackman.

Two woman in the 1980s walk Hollywood Boulevard
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Members' Screening: MaXXXine

Mia Goth stars in this soon-to-be-classic slasher film set in the dark depths of 1980s Hollywood, as we follow Maxine's journey towards stardom, despite a spate of murders engulfing the city.

A young girl makes arts and crafts in the Barbican Cinema Cafe.
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Cinema Talks & events

Family Friendly Shorts and Creative Workshop with Accumulate

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Join us for a free programme of family short films and a drop-in creative workshop as part of Whitecross Street Party.

A dog and robot walk down the street in New York.
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Relaxed Screening: Robot Dreams

A dog and a robot romp around New York in the 1980s in this animated comedy.

A middle aged man stares directly ahead, with stints in his eyes holding them open.
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Accelerate or Die + ScreenTalk with Jake Chapman &...

 Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism? 

A man and a woman sit on a divan on stage laughing with each other.
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Cinema

NT Live: Present Laughter

Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward's provocative comedy about an actor's whirlwind of fame, sex, love and panic.

Two men stand on the stairs of a beach chatting, over a stormy sea.
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Cinema

blur: To the End

Depicting the extraordinary and emotional return of blur, captured during the year in which they made a surprise return with their first record in 8 years, the #1 album ‘The Ballad of Darren’.

A young couple lie in tall grass, gazing into each other's eyes.
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Senior Community Screening: Banel & Adama

A young couple living in remote Senegal, whose star-crossed love is in conflict with family tradition, face a new challenge as drought hits their village.

an architectural photo
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Art & design Cinema Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Lewerentz Divine Darkness

This documentary sheds new light on one of twentieth century architecture's most enigmatic figures.

A young boy stands against a wall, that holds a photo of an older boy.
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Cinema

New East Cinema: 1489 + ScreenTalk

When a young Armenian soldier disappears at the start of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, his sister sets on filming their family as they navigate between hope and grief.

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
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Relaxed Screening: Challengers

Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

A person wearing a bandana nad large round glasses shouts next to a person wearing heavy makeup and hair curlers, grimacing.
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Cinema

Stewart Home's Occasional Film Club: City of Lost Souls +...

The latest iteration of Stewart Home’s Occasional Barbican Film Club took as its starting point Shakespeare Tower, bringing unlikely pairing of two very different examples of queer underground cinema.