What’s On Week Ahead

Anna Sten plays a hat maker caught in a love triangle and challenges involving a room rental scam and a winning lottery ticket.

Fri 14 - Thu 20 Feb

Memoir of a Snail is the bittersweet remembrance of a lonely woman called Grace Pudel, who retells her life story to a humble garden snail named Sylvia.

Writer, film historian and Silent London blogger Pamela Hutchinson bring us a presentation highlighting the influence of 1920s Soviet silent comedies.

In this Lunchtime Talk, discover Deepwood—a live, audio-based deep-listening experience with a tree using real-time plant data. With Creative Director Tom Bailey and Plant Biosensor Designer Danilo Oliveira Vaz.

Until Thu 20 Feb

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.

A small-time black-marketeer loathe to shed his capitalist ways tries to work the chaos of the Bolshevik takeover to his advantage.

Until Wed 19 Feb

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

Recognised widely as a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, The House at Trubnaya Square is a delightful comedy of manners satirising contemporary life in Moscow during a time of ever-shifting, often contradictory, policies.

Until Thu 20 Feb

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.

In this event BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage co-host teams up with one of the UK’s top materials scientists Mark Miodownik, and melons of various shapes and sizes, to explore why some come apart in funnier ways than others.

Until Thu 20 Feb

Bring Them Down is a tense and gripping thriller about two warring families set against the harsh landscape of rural west Ireland.

Plunge yourself into the time-splicing, dimension-shifting world of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry in this romantic sci fi, now celebrating its 21st anniversary and back on the big screen for a special Valentine's Day screening.

Fri 14 - Thu 20 Feb

Mahdi Fleifel delivers a gritty, captivating drama about young Palestinians caught in an eternal state of exile.

I Was Born, But is director Yasujiro Ozu's film that looks at family life through the eyes of two young mischevious brothers, new to their Tokyo neighbourhood.

Join us this half-term for double feature of Aardman Animation’s new feature film Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wrong Trousers, starring everyone’s favourite duo Wallace & Gromit.

Dustin Hoffman gives an Oscar®-nominated performance as an unsuccessful actor who poses as a woman to try for a part in a hit TV series.

Wim Wenders's beguiling drama is a poignant, warm-hearted portrait of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, played by Cannes Best Actor prize-winner Koji Yakusho.

Until Sun 23 Feb

From the co-director of How to Train Your Dragon comes an incredible journey of survival, love and selflessness, featuring gorgeous animation and stunning voice performances.

Buster Keaton is both touching and very, very funny in this spoof cowboy film as Friendless, a hapless soul who decides to try his hand at cattle ranching after failing to find a big city job.

Eddie Murphy plays the lead in this comedy send-up of every horror film ever.

Sun 16 - Tue 18 Feb

Chantal Akerman’s film, shot in the grime of 70s New York, bridges the distance from Brussels through dictated letters from her mother.

Until Wed 19 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.

Calling all romantics, film fans, and manic pixie dreamers—get ready to test your knowledge of the most unforgettable cinematic love stories

This February half term we are inviting young people aged 8-14 and their guardians to join us for a workshop hosted by Dr. Libby Miller. A playful, interactive exploration of robotics made with everyday items, you'll get to explore creative tech, and build a Shonkbot.

Thu 20 - Fri 21 Feb

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

Thu 20 - Thu 27 Feb

Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Martin Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.