London-based filmmaker Ursula Mayer presents her recent film Medea (2013) alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea of 1969. The programme features an introduction by the artist.
Part road movie, part film essay, part contemplative travelogue, Mark Cousins’ latest film is a richly textured and poetic journey amongst the history, geography and imagination of Albania, followed by a Skype Q&A with director Mark Cousins.
The deserved winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 2014 Oscars, Paolo Sorrentino The Great Beauty is a dazzlingly ambitious and beautifully filmed love letter to Rome.
Captain Scott's doomed race to the South Pole is captured in a silent film from 1924, stunningly restored in 2010 by the BFI and with a new score by Simon Fisher Turner.
Winner of Best European Film in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, The Selfish Giant is a pitch-perfect portrayal of working class families in strife.
An ice-cool psychological thriller, The Consequences of Love is the mesmeric story of former stockbroker Titta di Girolamo (Paulo Servillo), serving out a life-sentence from Cosa Nostra in an anonymous hotel in a Swiss-Italian town near Lake Lugarno.
A programme of live music, performances, screenings and special events, generated through exciting collaborations with established and emerging record labels, artists and music organisations.
Having chronicled the Pol Pot regime in documentaries such as 2003’s S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, director Rithy Panh returns to the subject with this deeply felt account of a childhood endured in various Khmer Rouge labour camps.
Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen.
