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Two women look at a wall that has photographs and notes pinned on to it.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Bye Bye Tiberias

Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career, Hiam Abbass returns home in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.

An animation of a closed shop front.
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Cinema

LIAF 2024: Disrupting the Narrative: When Worlds Collide

Taking viewers on unexpected journeys across London, Libya, South Africa and beyond into personal histories and deep into emotional landscapes of the heart.

Madhvi Parekh, Village Opera-2, 1975. © Madhvi Parekh. Courtesy DAG.
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Art & design Cinema Tours & public spaces

The Imaginary Institution of India: BSL Tour

A British Sign Language tour of the exhibition, exclusively for D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors, highlighting key artworks. 

Edward Said laughs against a wall.
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Cinema

LPFF: Edward Said: The Last Interview + Intro

Coinciding with the reissue of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine (Fitzcarraldo Editions), we present Mike Dibb’s celebrated extended conversation with the ground breaking literary scholar.

A man takes a photograph of another man standing next to an old cinema projector in a garden.
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Cinema

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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Cinema

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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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Babes

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

A small bug floats to the bottom of a pont.
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Cinema

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.

A grand hallway with an ensemble cast
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Cinema

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!

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.  

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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Special Event: Kensuke's Kingdom

A young boy finds himself washed ashore on an island in the Pacific, in this animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel.