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Two people stand atop a wrecked car in a landscape looking out on a city.
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Family Film Week: The Boy and the World

A rare delight on the big screen – we’re hosting a special 10th Anniversary screening of the Oscar nominated animation from director Alê Abreu.

Two children play in a cardboard box.
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Family Film Week: The Imaginary

Dripping with magic and danger, this fabulous new animation from the makers of Mary and the Witch’s Flower, is a thrilling delight!

Two women hold hands whilst riding on bicycles.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: The Circus Tent

A visually stunning and poetic exploration of the inner lives of a travelling circus trope in which old age, loneliness and regret becomes magnified through Govindan Aravindan’s salient observation.

Jackie stands in profile on stage with a microphone on a stand
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Doc'n Roll Film Festival: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane...

A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal.

Two young people stand in front of a shop in a snowy town.
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Family Film Week: Special Preview: That Christmas

Join us for a special preview of this wonderful new Netflix animation, adapted from the Richard Curtis’ charming trilogy of children’s books.

A child in a blue shirt is sat in a classroom looking up at the front the room, surrounded by classmates.
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Film Africa: After The Long Rains

Ten year old Aisha is given a school assignment to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. 

A group of men in suits run forward.
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Experiments in Film: Efforts of Nature VI

This selection of old and new experimental films and spoken word looks at the human body as a place of pleasure, illness, and as a site for transcendental experiences.

Creative Learning image in music hall
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Sustainable Screen Careers in Partnership with BAFTA

A morning of advice from experts about making the film and TV industry more sustainable, for students.

A woman in traditional Indian dress stands by a window.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: Duvidha

A ghost falls in love with a new bride in this virtuoso blend of folklore and avant-garde cinema, anchored in an evocative feminist perspective. 

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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Janet Planet

Annie Baker's tender coming-of-age debut follows 11-year-old Lacie and her unconventional mother during the summer of 1991.

Women stand infront of a protest banner marching down the street.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: India Cabaret + Maid Servant + Intro

A double bill of documentaries by women and focussing on women’s rights and perspectives.

A pair of hands touch a piece of fabric
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Cinema

LPFF Opening Night: A Grain of Sand حبة رمل (performance)

One-woman show based on real events in Gaza. Performed by Sarah Agha, written and directed by Elias Matar, commissioned by London Palestine Film Festival. 

A jazz band in the 1970s plays in studio, a woman sings, a man plays the trumpet, and another plays the drums.
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Cinema

Jazz on Screen: So Watt: Jazz and Improvisation on British..

Diving into the British TV archives of the 70s, a programme of jazz and improv from the television screen. 

Two men lie by a door by a destroyed building.
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Cinema

Jazz on Screen: Noi insistiamo. Suite per la libertà subito

A photographic montage and an unconventional, free-form Japanese drama brings together two films scored by Max Roach in 1964. 

Two people play in the street with a cart
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LPFF: To a Land Unknown + ScreenTalk 

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.