When Fink, an idealistic, left-leaning Broadway playwright, turns up in ’40s Hollywood to write a movie screenplay, he finds the sunlit land of promise rather darker, lonelier and more complicated ...

In an era of escalating government control and imperialism, a maid begins a torrid affair of sexual games with her employer. Isolating themselves from society in a world of mutual obsession, their ...

Béla Tarr explores a shadow-steeped mode of infernal quasi-surrealism in this adaptation of co-writer László Kraszahorkai’s 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance. A small Hungarian town is rocked by ...

Award-winning Polish cinematographer and long-time Roman Polanski collaborator Pawel Edelman joins us to discuss his creative practice. A long-time collaborator with Roman Polanski, award-winning ...

In Naoko Yamada’s colourful anime, a trio of teen outsiders form a band, enabling them to escape the challenges of everyday life. Shy Totsuko sees people as colours. She’s attracted to fellow pupil ...

Attraction, insecurity and aggressive power play figure in Roman Polanski’s superb debut feature. Polanski’s feature debut – one of the most impressive in all cinema – is a model of modest but ...

Explore how Bertolt Brecht’s texts influenced Straub-Huillet and British cinema with a panel of academics. Joint ticket offer available with the screening of History Lessons + intro on Sat 16 Mar at ...