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 ...

Werner Herzog’s beautiful, stylised foray into vampire territory is a rich, resonant tribute to an earlier German cinema. Stunning images from Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein and superb silent-movie style ...

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 ...

Murnau’s vampire classic remains one of the greatest of all horror movies, genuinely unsettling in its depiction of the wizened, barely human Transylvanian Count Orlok as a threat not only to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join us for this fun and accessible introductory crash course, presented by season curator and film critic Christina Newland. This session will look at the life, work and influence of Luchino Visconti ...

In the Second World War, an orphaned Syrian brown bear is adopted by Polish solders, before taking a journey that sees him arrive in Scotland where he becomes a symbol of hope for all those who ...

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 ...