Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films. John Woo’s first US film paired him with action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays an ex-marine reluctantly drawn into a ...

The most beautiful panel of the ‘Trilogy of Life’ is also the most dreamlike. No author-figure this time, just a multiplicity of interlocking tales of sexual desire, gender masquerade, vaulting ...

This year’s LFF Best Film Award winner, Adam Elliot’s tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia is a funny and moving stop-motion triumph. Grace and Gilbert are separated as children due to tragic ...

The move to sound film production brought disruption to film industries across the world. Until recently, Britain’s transition experience had been relatively unexplored. Geoff Brown’s fascinating ...

The best international short films from the LSFF 2025 programme. In a world of relentless routines and quiet absurdities, these Competition shorts, selected from across the LSFF programme, illuminate ...

In his films, Sergio Leone aimed to re-enchant cinema with stories of a mythical America, while expressing his own disenchantment and at the same time conveying the exhilaration he personally felt ...

Join fellow film lovers and explore the magnificent realism and literary adaptations of Luchino Visconti. For more details and to book your place on this course, please contact City Lit on 0207 492 ...

The second programme of International short films, selected from across this year’s LSFF programme to compete for the Best International Short Film award. Through poignant storytelling and vivid ...

A riveting documentary investigation into US and Western colonial ambition in Africa and its intersection with the US Jazz scene. This stunningly constructed documentary explores a period in which art ...

A street hockey team in south London provide powerful interconnection between place and people in the 1985 Ceddo Film Workshop documentary, screening as part of a larger event about film culture and ...

In Tsui Hark’s timeless romantic comedy, two people fall in love, are separated soon after and attempt to overcome the burden of not knowing what the other looks like. In 1937, during a Japanese air ...