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A woman dances on a stage in front of a jazz band.
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Cinema

Jazz on Screen: Symphonies in Black: Duke Ellington Shorts

Join us at the Barbican for a special screening event featuring 16 captivating short films that highlight the extraordinary musical legacy of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. 

A person overlooks a city
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Cinema

LPFF: Dreams and Ghosts (shorts programme) (#)

In this selection of films, characters face the visible versus the invisible. In a world where the past is always present, a yearning for a better future leads the way.

Two men stand facing each other in the desert
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Cinema

LPFF: No Other Land + ScreenTalk 

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, filmed his West Bank community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation; now an Israeli journalist wants to join his fight.

A black and white image of a man and a woman sitting by a log cabin with a large dog.
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Cinema

Silent Film & Live Music: By The Law

Thought your flat was small during lockdown? How about waiting out a Canadian winter in a primitive wooden cabin with just your husband, and a murderer, for company.  

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 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 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.  

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.  

A man and a woman embrace in the dark, both look happy.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: Alley of Ill Repute

Originally believed lost and only recently rediscovered in 2019, this pioneering film was India’s first queer film. 

A group of dancers pose on a stage in front of a mansion, they are all dancing.
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Cinema

ROH Live 24-25: Cinderella

This Christmas, be transported into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.

A man and a woman sit in a bar, and cheers each other.
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Between The Temples

Jason Schwartzman's world is turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

A group of ballet dancers in traditional, fairy-like dress dance around a stage.
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Cinema

ROH Live 24-25: The Nutcracker

Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs bring festive charm to Peter Wright’s beloved Royal Ballet production, as fairy tale magic comes together with spectacular dancing in this classic ballet.