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2022
Pather Panchali
Rome, Open City
The Adversary
Battleship Potemkin
Daughters of the Dust
In Conversation with Aparna Sen + UK Premiere - The Rapist
Pandora's Box
Sankofa
Theorem
Women in Love
All the President's Men
BUG 63
Nitram
Wayfinder
The Afterlight
Burning an Illusion
In Pursuit of Silence
Gandhi
Moon, 66 Questions
Wings of Desire
Dobaaraa
I Could Go On Singing
Wayfinder
Le Havre
Certain Women
The Devil, Probably
A Star Is Born
Judy's Jukebox Singalong
Looking for Langston
Lancelot du Lac
Earwig
GoodFellas
Stranger by the Lake
All My Friends Hate Me
Bergman Island
Rosetta
Swan Song
Une femme douce
Style, Anti-style
and Influence
Robert Bresson Re-assessed
Thief
Wot! No Art
Escape from Alcatraz
L'Argent
The Spirit of the Beehive
Au hasard Balthazar
A Man Escaped
Taxi Driver
Les Anges du péché
Les Dames
du Bois de Boulogne
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
Meet Me in St. Louis
Mouchette
The Wizard of Oz
Diary of a Country Priest
Ivan's Childhood
Judy Garland
20th Century Icon
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Frequencies
Martyrs
Climax
East Palace, West Palace
Ms .45
Dandelion Dead
Irreversible
The Quiet Girl
Lux Æterna
Grave of the Fireflies
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Little Miss Sunshine
Tempo
Gregory's Girl
Them
Modern Times
Cléo from 5 to 7
Inside
To Die For
Wolf Children
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Vortex
Laika + intro
Playing with Reality + panel
Journey to Italy
Vortex + intro
Benediction
High Tension
The Long Day Closes
Enter the Void
Still Walking
In My Skin
Raça
Syndromes and a Century
Morons from Outer Space
Romance
The Velvet Queen
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Pola X
El sur
Vampyr
Criminal Lovers
Croupier
Everything Everywhere
All at Once
Millennium Actress
Pulp
The River
Akira
Black Rainbow
Mike Hodges
in Conversation
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Tokyo Story
Man Bites Dog
The Ordeal
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Sunrise
A Song of Two Humans
The Terminal Man
Baise-moi
A Farewell to Arms
The Girl Who Leapt through Time
I Stand Alone
The Red Shoes
Your Name
BUG 62
We're All Going to the World's Fair
The Funhouse
Illuminating the Wilderness
Ghost in the Shell
Miss Julie
The Woman in Black
Ennio
Firebird
The Northman
Saraband
I Confess
The Emigrants
Sebastiane
The Last Temptation of Christ
Patlabor 2
Playground
Cowboy Bebop – The Movie
Benedetta
Patlabor - The Movie
Royal Space Force
The Wings of Honneamise
The Year of the Sex Olympics
The Gospel According to Matthew
Quatermass and the Pit
The New World
Scenes from a Marriage
Worzel Gummidge Restoration Screening
CODA
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Faithless
Steamboy
Compartment No. 6
Liv Ullmann in Conversation
Maquia - When the Promised Flower Blooms
The Passion of Anna
My Night with Maud
Small Body
Une femme douce
My Neighbour Totoro
Shame
Stalker
Belladonna of Sadness
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Out of the Unkown
The Chopper
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Wuthering Heights
Babette’s Feast
Cries and Whispers
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Belle
Black Narcissus
Ordet
Hive
Lourdes
Oska Bright Lights
Persona
When Marnie Was There
Léon Morin, prêtre
Olga
Paris, 13th District
Spirited Away
The Worst Person in the World
Hostile
From Birth-Day to Something Nice to Eat
Restoration Programme 2
The Phantom of the Open
Ali & Ava
The Hermit of Treig
Somersault
The Beatles and India
Gentleman Jack
Happening
Cow
Marie Antoinette
True Things
White Riot
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
From the Caribbean to West Africa
Edric Connor’s Travelogues
The Joyless Street
Water Lilies
37 Seconds
The Camera Is Ours - Study Day
+ Independent Miss Craigie
Earth Spirit
From the Sea to the Land Beyond
Nashville
Doctor Who
Revelation of the Daleks
8½
F for Fake
For Sama
From Beside the Seaside to The English Inn
Restoration Programme 1
Rebel Dread + Q&A
42nd Street
Divines
Hamlet
Le Mépris
Paper & Glue
The Power of the Dog +
Jane Campion in Conversation
Skate Kitchen
Ali & Ava
Keep the Change
La Mif
The Real Charlie Chaplin
UNIQUE
The Duke
Moonlight
The People under the Stairs
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Towards the Light
Asta Nielsen
The Night of the Hunter
Flee
Mädchen in Uniform
The Representation of Women in Truffaut’s Films
The Souvenir Part II
The Proposition
Ballet Black
Casablanca
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Rafiki
A Fantastic Woman
T A P E x Invisible Women Present - Touched
My Beautiful Laundrette
Study Day + Acting Out - Stephen Dwoskin film screening
Desert Hearts
Mustang
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Fish Tank
Philosophical Screens
Jules et Jim
Rope
Victim
Brokeback Mountain
Go Fish
The Story of Adele H.
Happy Together
My Own Private Idaho
The Woman Next Door
The Watermelon Woman
Maurice
Mississippi Mermaid
La Peau douce
African Redemption
The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey
Anne and Muriel
Fahrenheit 451
Finally Sunday!
Rent
The Black Dream
The Film Primadonna
The Bride Wore Black
The Handmaiden
Jules et Jim
Zapata's Gang
The Eskimo Baby
The ABC of Asta Nielsen
The Abyss
The ABC of Love
Beautiful Thing
All about My Mother
Thirteen
Young Soul Rebels
Shoot the Pianist
Times For
The Wild Child
Kes
The Epic of Everest
+ live score by Simon Fisher Turner
François Truffaut's Cinematic and Literary Influences
Parallel Mothers
South
My Little Eye
South + Live Score
The Surviving films of
Franciszka and Stefan Themerson
Antarctic Crossings – Postwar Shorts
Amulet
The Killing Fields
Intrepid Women
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Encounters at the End of the World
Fresh Meat 10th Anniversary
Memoria
Natural Born Killers
Hoffman
Licorice Pizza
YES & NO Salon
Exploration Now
Bigger than Life
For the Love of People... The Films of François Truffaut
The Hunger
Labyrinth
Smiles of a Summer Night
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Last Metro
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The 400 Blows
Boiling Point
Casque d'or
After Life
Season 3
BUG Special - David Bowie
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Basquiat
Love on the Run
Rome, Open City
Touching the Void
Les Enfants terribles
Querelle
Twin Peaks
Fire Walk with Me
Citizen Kane
12 Angry Men
A Clockwork Orange
L'Enfant sauvage
The Great White Silence
Christiane F.
Day for Night
Metropolis
2001 - A Space Odyssey
La Grande illusion
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
The Prestige
Stolen Kisses
Titane
West Side Story
2021
The Shout
Shall We Dance?
Fire Festival
Memento Mori
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Moving
After Love
Swan Song
Bridget Jones's Diary at 20
Carol
The Black Balloon
Philosophical Screens
Tampopo
Tampopo
It's a Wonderful Life
Muddy River
Billy Bang Lucky Man
The Great Gatsby
1970s Odd Pop and Rare Rock
Death by Hanging
The Lonely Passion of
Judith Hearne
Battle Royale
Pale Flower
The Servant
Seven Samurai
tick, tick...BOOM!
Boiling Point
Gremlins
The Passions of
Jack Clayton
The Pumpkin Eater
The Mezzotint
Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas
The Tourist
Scrooge
Titane
Aimee Victoria + The Multi
A Christmas Tale
Doctor Who
City of Death
Terry Pratchett's The Abominable Snow Baby
Black Rain
The Innocents
It's Personal + Q&A
Love + Q&A
UK Premiere
Approaching Shadows
Meet Me in St. Louis
Press Reset on Ableism + Disability On Screen – Past, Present and Future
The Shop around the Corner
Tokyo Drifter
Woman of the Dunes
Remember the Night
Room at the Top
The Shifting Spaces of
Modern Japanese Cinema
The Witches of Eastwick
After Life
The Apartment
In the Realm of the Senses
Naomi Kawase
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth + Birth/Mother
Petite maman
The Amazing Mr Blunden
The London Palladium Show
Introducing
'The Precious Things'
Holiday Startime
Boxing Day
Petite maman
Rebel Dykes
Encanto
Mr. Turner
Peterloo
Pirates
Tokyo Olympiad
Another Year
Onibaba
The Family and Home in the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema
The Hand of God
Drive My Car
Topsy-Turvy
+ Q&A with Mike Leigh
Becoming Cousteau
Naked
Shaft
Vera Drake
Yearning
Female Archetypes in Classical Japanese Cinema
Harakiri
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Sansho the Bailiff
Godzilla
Marital Relations
A Date with the Devil
Darcus Howe’s Journey from Black Power to Broadcasting
An Inn at Osaka
Love Letter
Career Girls
Black History Walks Presents
Cause for Concern
Equal Before the Law
Moonlight
My Love Has Been Burning
All or Nothing
20-22 Omega
Primitive London
Audition
Body and Soul
Ichi the Killer
In the Cut
Last Night in Soho + Q&A
Cure
Kirikou and the Sorceress
No Country for Old Men
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Dark Water
French Dispatch
Ring
Seven Samurai
The Silence of the Lambs
Anatomy of Wings
Darling
High Hopes
Mike Leigh in Conversation
The Black Arts Movement on Film
Dirty Harry
Frenzy
Short Sharp Shocks II
Abigail's Party
Blue Velvet
Life Is Sweet
+ Q&A with Mike Leigh
Summer of Soul
(... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
A Blonde in Love
The Pleasure Girls
Secrets & Lies
A Time of Change and How Japanese Film Bore Witness to It
Education
Happy-Go-Lucky
Humanity and Paper Balloons
Mandabi (The Money Order)
Meantime
Alex Wheatle
Hard Labour
I Was Born, But...
The Making of Small Axe
Murder on the Orient Express
A Page of Madness
Radio Days
Red, White and Blue
Beat Girl
Lovers Rock
Mangrove
Never Gonna Snow Again
The Outsiders
The Complete Novel
Illustrious Corpses
Last Night in Soho
The Manchurian Candidate
An Actor's Revenge
Un flic
I Am Cuba
The Long Goodbye
Nuts in May
Tongues Untied
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Denis Villeneuve in Conversation
Dutchman
Early Spring
Heat
Jules et Jim
Kiss Me Deadly
Peeping Tom
Throne of Blood
Yojimbo
Bleak Moments
Chinatown
The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice
Passport to Shame
Tokyo Story
Devil in a Blue Dress
Dune
Of Time and the City
Rocks
Seeing the Unseen
Surge
Abou Leila
BAFTA-recognised Best of 2020
Old Pals
Adam
Chicken Run
Dark Turns
Intimate Details
Sweetheart
Awkward Encounters
Narrative Encounters Shorts Programme
Cinema Architecture and Atmosphere
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
You Will Die at Twenty
Flesh and Blood
Richard Pryor
Live on the Sunset Strip
The Selfish Giant
Talking about Trees
Prime Suspect
30th Anniversary
Gallivant
Short Films by Eden and Andrew Kötting
The Maltese Falcon
Rose Plays Julie
The Souvenir
Richard Pryor
A Comedy Genius
Tlamess
The Fallen Idol
Let’s Talk (Ehkeely)
Sicario
Silver Streak
143 Sahara Street
The Big Heat
Blazing Saddles
Car Wash
Incendies
It Must Be Heaven
The Last Tree
Annette
African Odysseys Presents
The Black History of Comedy
Polytechnique
Sweet Thing
Rear Window
As Above, So Below
Laura
The Third Man
200 Meters
The Big Sleep
Copilot
The Undercover Man
Cry of the City
Lawrence of Belgravia
Saint Etienne Shorts Programme
What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?
Asunder
The Bingo Long Traveling
All-Stars & Motor Kings
Blade Runner 2049
Finisterre
How We Used to Live
Candyman
Call Northside 777
I've Been Trying to Tell You
This Is Tomorrow
Wildfire
Double Indemnity
Saint Maud
Some Call It Loving
Enemy
Prisoners
The Stranger
Sapphire
Souad
The Nanny
Souad
Stand Clear of the
Closing Doors
Vigil
The Watcher in the Woods
Ailey
Cinema Paradiso
Thundercrack!
Censor
Dead Ringer
Rebel Dread
Big Wednesday
Once upon a Time in America
Great Noises That Fill the Air
The Hateful Eight
The Star
The Wit and Wisdom of A.A. Milne
A Fear of Strangers +
The Chocolate Tree
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Almost Famous
Cutter's Way
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(Átame!)
Matewan
Days of Heaven
I’m Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
A Farewell to Arms
Flame in the Streets
The Mission
Once upon a Time in the West
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Life and Legacy of
Alan Whicker
Only Angels Have Wings
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Welcome to Whicker's World
White Dog
The Sparks Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Dark Victory
The Thing
The Untouchables
All About Bette Davis
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Now, Voyager
Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom
Boyz N the Hood
Jezebel
The North Water
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
All about Eve
Bright Star
Earwig and the Witch
What the Hell Is It This Time?
Sparks Live in London
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
A Fistful of Dollars
Pool of London
The Sounds of Ennio Morricone
The Battle of Algiers
Celebrating Britain's First Black Screen Star
Ernest and Celestine
Of Human Bondage
Thelma & Louise
Culture Shock
Short Film Programme + Q&A with UNDR LNDN
Limbo
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The Horse Boy
Pinocchio
A Prairie Home Companion
Diary for My Children
(Napló gyermekeimnek)
Diary for My Father and Mother
(Napló apámnak, anyámnak)
Diary for My Loves
(Napló szerelmeimnek)
Lilting
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Girlfriends
Mandabi (The Money Order)
My Blueberry Nights
Born in Flames
The Hand
The Grandmaster
(Yi dai zong shi)
The Heiresses (Örökség)
Deerskin (Le Daim)
The Girl
What Will People Say
2046
In the Mood for Love
(Fa yeung nin wa)
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Namesake
The Two of Them
(Ők ketten)
The Company
Man about Town
Nine Months
(Kilenc hónap)
35 Shots of Rum
Adoption
(Örökbefogadás)
The Croods
A New Age
Gosford Park
Happy Together
(Chun gwong cha sit)
Head-On
Ashes of Time Redux
(Dung che sai duk)
Chungking Express
(Chung Hing sam lam)
Pinky
Riddance
(Szabad lélegzet)
Another Round (Druk)
Fallen Angels
(Do lok tin si)
The Gingerbread Man
Jumbo
Tove
Days of Being Wild
(Ah Fei jing juen)
As Tears Go By
(Wong Gok ka moon)
Distant Voices
Still Lives
Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
(Szép lányok ne sírjatok)
Binding Sentiments (Holdudvar)
Cookie's Fortune
Trottie True
(aka The Gay Lady)
The Girl +
Introducing Márta Mészáros
All the President's Men
Binti
Kansas City
Short Cuts
Black Girl (La noire de...)
How Green Was My Valley
The Player
Prêt-à-porter
Vincent and Theo
Wild Strawberries
All about My Mother
Rumble Fish
Supernova
Battleship Potemkin
Censor
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
Hope and Glory
The Father
Nashville
Ultraviolence
Beyond Therapy
The Warriors
Ahimsa
Gandhi – The Power of the Powerless
Bitter Victory
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Warrior
WolfWalkers
In the Earth
The Reason I Jump
(Relaxed Screening)
The Reason I Jump
WOMB
Women in the Films of Robert Altman – An Online Panel Discussion
Secret Honor
The Elephant Man
HealtH
Popeye
Doctor Who
Dragonfire
Quintet
The Story of Looking
Fargo
The First 54 Years
An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
O.C. and Stiggs
Le Doulos
The Beatles and India
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Streamers
The White Ribbon
The Wiz
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Fool for Love
Lift like a Girl
20 Feet from Stardom
Gunda
The Man Who Wasn't There
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Sweet Smell of Success
What's Love Got to Do with It
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Thieves like Us
Images
A Perfect Couple
Mavis!
Brewster McCloud
Broadcast News
The James Dean Story
That Cold Day in the Park
First Cow
Man Hunt
The Seventh Seal
Eraserhead
The Gleaners and I
3 Women
Alice in the Cities
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
The Killers
Mirror
Robert Altman, Outsider and Innovator - An Illustrated Online Talk
Syndromes and a Century
Beau Travail
The Big City
The Long Goodbye
Magnificent Obsession + Fear Eats the Soul
Beginning
Cléo from 5 to 7
Dreamgirls
Hair
The Human Voice
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Wonders
California Split
Car Wash
County Lines
David Byrne's
American Utopia
The Last Picture Show
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Rare Beasts
Booksmart
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
L'eclisse
Footloose
La Haine
Citizen Kane
The Shout
Siren of the Tropics
The General
The Tango Lesson
Touch of Evil
A Wedding
Whitney 'Can I Be Me'
Amazing Grace
Nomadland
Persona
Ammonite
Blow Out
M*A*S*H
Sound of Metal
