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

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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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 with director

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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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Challengers

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

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Cinema

Parent and Baby 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.

An old lady drives a scooter down a hospital corridor.
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Cinema

Parent and Baby Screening: Thelma

At the tender age of 93, Thelma has accepted her role as a grandma and a widow. But after she is scammed out of $10,000, she kicks back into action, one mobility scooter stunt at a time...

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.

Two young boys covered in mud stand on train tracks in a rural setting, looking towards the camera.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Monster

When her young son begins to act strange, a single mother demands answers from his school, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's mysterious drama. 

Godzilla dominates a landscape.
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Cinema

All Kaiju Attack!: Mothra Vs. Godzilla + introduction...

Our kaiju celebration kicks off with one of the greatest films of the genre, a battle royale between the two most beloved giant beasts – a rampaging Godzilla against monster-God Mothra.

Two children eat biscuits on a street in an old photography from mid-20th Century.
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Cinema

Francis Alÿs: Recreations: Three Films on Children's Play

A trio of films on childhood which form a dialogue with the documentary project Children’s Games, curated in response to our Francis Alÿs: Ricochets exhibition.

A man stands leaning against a wall with one arm. He is wearing a vest and sunglasses indoors. There are film posters behind him.
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: The Fall Guy

Ryan Gosling is a down-and-out stuntman tracking down a missing actress in David Leitch's action rom-com.

A movie poster for Destroy All Monsters with lots of monsters over Japanese writing in red.
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Cinema

All Kaiju Attack!: Destroy All Monsters + introduction...

Kaiju assemble! Over 10 monsters battle it out in this excitement-packed extravaganza, featuring King Ghidorah, Rodan, Mothra, Anguirus and, of course, Godzilla.

A monster stands in a forest looking frightening.
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Cinema

All Kaiju Attack! Gamera: Guardian of the Universe +...

Shusuke Kaneko’s 1995 blockbuster trades the campy, kid-friendly surrealism of the earlier films for a darker, more realistic tone and innovative special effects.

A group of women footballers celebrate in a huge stadium, holding an award cup.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Copa 71

An inspiring documentary about the 1971 Women’s Football Cup, and sexism in the football sphere. Directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erksine