What’s On Week Ahead

Until Thu 30 Jan

Jesse Eisenberg cements his reputation as a gifted filmmaker with this witty and heartfelt portrait of two estranged cousins honouring their roots.

Until Thu 30 Jan

Nicole Kidman is the high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Until Thu 30 Jan

Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.

Until Thu 30 Jan

Director Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux, The Childhood of a Leader) monumental drama is an ambitious American epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish Hungarian architect who flees Europe at the end of World War II to rebuild his life in an unfamiliar land.

Is Jazz is a space for 18-30(ish)-year-olds to share your own creative practice and explore other peoples' in a low-stakes, supportive, informal way.

Until Thu 30 Jan

The latest from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela), Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.

Fri 31 Jan - Thu 6 Feb

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.

In this Lunchtime Talk, the co-founders of experiential design studio Ottomata, will share their approach to crafting personally reflective interactive installations.

Fri 31 Jan - Thu 6 Feb

1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.

To kick off our season of Chantal Akerman’s films playing throughout February and March, the curator of the BFI’s retrospective Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception, Isabel Stevens, takes us on a whistlestop tour of the director's preoccupations, influence and filmmaking brilliance.

Sat 1 - Sun 2 Feb

Je Tu Il Elle tells the story of the last three moments of a young girl’s adolescence, painfully approaching adulthood, and who will have to give up something of herself to conform to it.

In this workshop with our friends at Stockport Fungi, you'll discover how to cultivate tasty oyster mushrooms using recycled and repurposed materials. Plus, you'll get to take home your very own reusable kit. This workshop is perfect for beginners.