What's On
Terrestrial Verses
Nine interlocking vignettes of everyday life offer a panoramic, politically charged view of state repression and bureaucracy in contemporary Tehran. Terrestrial Verses resonates strongly with the recent Woman, Life, Freedom protests.
Raagaverse Plays Bollywood
Melding ancient and rich Hindustani melodies with dense and dynamic Jazz harmonies, Raagaverse is an exciting Indo-Jazz fusion project spearheaded by Shruti Ramani. For this special show, Shruti will share clips from the legendary Bollywood musicals which inspire her, complemented by the band's unique take on these songs.
Daisies + Meshes of the Afternoon
This programme highlights two landmarks in feminist film: Maya Deren's surrealist short Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), and Vera Chytilova's subversive new wave farce, Daisies (1966), perhaps the most radical, confrontational film of the era.
I Am Not a Witch
Screening in the series …to glimpse: African Cinema Now! curated by Fegor Obuwoma, Rungano Nyoni's acclaimed debut feature is a visually striking satire about a 9-year-old orphan accused of witchcraft in contemporary Zambia.
A Page of Madness: Live Score by SOMNUS
Experimental music duo SOMNUS premieres a new multi-instrumental live score to Teinsuke Kinugasa's expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn't want to leave...
Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray's first film opened eyes in the West. It's a naturalistic portrait of the childhood of a Brahman child, Apu, growing up in a village far from twentieth century technology in West Bengal.
The Night of the Hunter
One of the strangest and most beguiling movies you'll ever see, from a poetic, nightmarish novel by Davis Grubb, a fable about two children fleeing from a psychotic evangelical preacher (Robert Mitchum). Charles Laughton's only film as director.
The Battle of Algiers
French Colonel Mathieu hunts for Algerian resistance leader Ali la Pointe in Pontecorvo's classic, which draws the battle lines between colonialists and Arab insurrectionists in a pulsating, "fly-on-the-wall" documentary style.
