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18 - 19 October 2025: Andrew Kötting: The Tell-Tale Rooms


We’re delighted to welcome Andrew Kötting for a weekend of VR experience and film programmes including a sneak preview of Kötting's new feature film The Memory Blocks which premiered at this years' Edinburgh Film Festival.
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What's On

Sat 18 October, 12pm: The Tell-Tale Rooms

Sat 18 October, 12pm: The Tell-Tale Rooms

The Tell-Tale Rooms is a 12-minute father/daughter collaboration by Andrew and Eden Kötting, an immersive VR experience, that leads us on a journey into Eden’s, fantastical world.
Sat 18 October, 6pm: The Liberated Film Club: Lucile Hadžihalilović

Sat 18 October, 6pm: The Liberated Film Club: Lucile Hadžihalilović

In London for the UK premiere of her new film The Ice Queen (2025), we are delighted to welcome Lucile Hadžihalilović to curate this edition of the Liberated Film Club.
Sat 18 October, 8.15pm: The Memory Blocks

Sat 18 October, 8.15pm: The Memory Blocks

These unselfconscious performances or enactments might be bringing us close to an understanding of what Eden thinks and feels – but maybe that isn’t the point and perhaps Eden, or those close to her, have no great need for this kind of insight and the object is more a kind of quietist harmony.
Sun 19 October, 5pm: Pacifiction

Sun 19 October, 5pm: Pacifiction

Known for his distinctive and provocative style, Albert Serra creates another original, highly saturated cinematic experience. Powered by Artur Tort’s sensuous cinematography and sublimely unhurried performances, Pacifiction is utterly engrossing and overwhelming.
Sun 19 October, 8pm: This Is Our Still Life + Shorts

Sun 19 October, 8pm: This Is Our Still Life + Shorts

Prompted by Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man and filmed between 1989 and 2010 with Super 8 and digital still cameras, Andrew Kötting’s sublime home movie captures the intimacy of life with partner Leila McMillan and daughter Eden.
Tue 21 October, 8.30pm: Close-Up

Tue 21 October, 8.30pm: Close-Up

In celebration of our 20th anniversary we present the film after which our cinema and film library was named
Wed 22 October, 8.30pm: Ugetsu

Wed 22 October, 8.30pm: Ugetsu

With this exquisite ghost story, Mizoguchi created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.
Thu 23 October, 8.30pm: Boat People

Thu 23 October, 8.30pm: Boat People

One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Boat People is a shattering look at the circumstances that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to flee in the wake of the Vietnam War. Transcending polemic, director Ann Hui takes a deeply humanistic approach to a harrowing and urgent subject.
Sat 25 October, 6pm: Ugetsu

Sat 25 October, 6pm: Ugetsu

With this exquisite ghost story, Mizoguchi created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.
Sat 25 October, 8pm: Blue Velvet

Sat 25 October, 8pm: Blue Velvet

With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century.
Sun 26 October, 3.30pm: Lawrence of Arabia

Sun 26 October, 3.30pm: Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean's masterpiece stands as both the finest example of the studio-era epic, and its swan song. Perhaps even more impressive than the scale of the film is its refusal to pander to hagiography; Lawrence emerges not a hero, but a series of contradictions which complicate the usually black and white moral atmosphere of the epic.
Sun 26 October, 8pm: Parajanov – The Last Collage

Sun 26 October, 8pm: Parajanov – The Last Collage

This documentary made five years after the death of Sergei Parajanov takes us into the world of the versatile Armenian film director. Besides gaining insight into his vision through archive footage and documents, the film also presents personal reminiscences of this extraordinary artist from his friends, acquaintances and admirers.

In October

14 October - 16 November 2025: Close-Up

14 October - 16 November 2025: Close-Up

In celebration of our 20th anniversary we present the film after which our cinema and film library was named
16 - 29 October 2025: Blue Velvet

16 - 29 October 2025: Blue Velvet

With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century.
18 - 19 October 2025: Andrew Kötting: The Tell-Tale Rooms

18 - 19 October 2025: Andrew Kötting: The Tell-Tale Rooms

We’re delighted to welcome Andrew Kötting for a weekend of VR experience and film programmes including a sneak preview of Kötting's new feature film The Memory Blocks which premiered at this years' Edinburgh Film Festival.
22 - 30 October 2025: Ugetsu

22 - 30 October 2025: Ugetsu

With this exquisite ghost story, Mizoguchi created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.
31 October 2025: The Liberated Film Club: Weathergirl

31 October 2025: The Liberated Film Club: Weathergirl

The Liberated Film Club presents a Halloween special curated by Weathergirl, the programming duo comprising Brontë Dow and Freya Field-Donovan, known for their hugely popular itinerant screening series focused on funny, sad and perverse artists' moving image. Dress-up not discouraged.

Coming Soon

1 - 30 November 2025: Close-Up on Frederick Wiseman

1 - 30 November 2025: Close-Up on Frederick Wiseman

Wiseman's documentaries, shot vérité-style, are meticulously edited narratives chronicling life’s complexities through rich portraits of social and cultural institutions. His themes are expansive: democracy, power, inequality and community, to name a few; but his focus is compellingly specific and humane.
2 - 13 November 2025: Strange Encounters

2 - 13 November 2025: Strange Encounters

Curated by Hope Rangaswami, this season explores the transformative power of chance encounters through five unusual and underseen films from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Though the films differ in approach, they each straddle the millennium – a time of transition, which is reflected in the profound transformations their protagonists undergo.
5 - 23 November 2025: Vampyr

5 - 23 November 2025: Vampyr

A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds create a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.
15 - 23 November 2025: The American Friend

15 - 23 November 2025: The American Friend

International intrigue, art and homicide, film and contemporary culture form the matrix of themes that underpin Wenders’s brilliant quasi-thriller, loosely adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game.
28 November 2025: The Liberated Film Club: Morgan Quaintance

28 November 2025: The Liberated Film Club: Morgan Quaintance

For November’s final edition of the Liberated Film Club, we welcome artist and writer Morgan Quaintance as guest programmer. Of his (Liberated) Club night, he states: “in an age of issues related programming let’s get to the core of the most important and enduring one: what it means to be human”.
29 November 2025: Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 1

29 November 2025: Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 1

The first of two Edge of Frame programmes for London International Animation Festival 2025, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces.
30 November 2025: Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 2

30 November 2025: Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 2

The second of two Edge of Frame programmes for London International Animation Festival 2025, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces.

Calendar

Sun 19 Oct 12:00pm
The Tell-Tale Rooms
Sun 19 Oct 5:00pm
Pacifiction
Sun 19 Oct 8:00pm
This Our Still Life + Shorts
Tue 21 Oct 8:30pm
Close-Up
Wed 22 Oct 8:30pm
Ugetsu
Thu 23 Oct 8:30pm
Boat People
Sat 25 Oct 6:00pm
Ugetsu
Sat 25 Oct 8:00pm
Blue Velvet
Sun 26 Oct 3:30pm
Lawrence of Arabia
Sun 26 Oct 8:00pm
Parajanov – The Last Collage