6th–11th
May 2025
across London

Programme

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Alia Syed made her early 16mm films at the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative in the mid-1980s, using the Co-op’s optical printer as a means to explore issues of identity and representation. Read More

In Focus: Alia Syed

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Renate Sami (Berlin, 1935) is a filmmaker and translator whose work resists narrow categorisations. Her films are extremely diverse in form and content, oscillating between the poetic, the observational and the political. Read More

In Focus: Renate Sami

Sep 1 —
Sep 11

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Meta Incognita: Missive II is the second part of a triptych of films that utilises different histories while focusing upon recognisable locations along and within the River Thames: from Millbank Prison (now the site of Tate Britain) to Second World War architecture on the Essex coastline. Read More

Alia Syed: Meta Incognita

18:30
Wed 08 Sep

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Open City Documentary Festival opens with new films by Margaret Salmon and Laida Lertxundi Read More

Opening Night: Icarus (after Amelia) + Inner Outer Space

Sep 9 —
Sep 13

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Another Gaze - Feminist Film Journal

The Critics Workshop is an immersive five-day programme developed with the Another Gaze editorial team that will provide an introduction to the ethics and methodologies of feminist film criticism for 12 selected participants. Read More

Critics Workshop

10:00
Thu 09 Sep

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We invite you to submit a working draft of your text, in any stage of completion for one-to-one tutorials with not/nowhere. Read More

Writing Surgeries with not/nowhere

12:30
Thu 09 Sep

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In this workshop we will consider the practicalities and possibilities of self-organising independent film tours of community spaces, meeting halls and cinemas. Read More

Organising a Film Tour

14:30
Thu 09 Sep

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Through visual presentations, sonic installations, and conversation, this session aims to reflect upon the extremis of London in lockdown and to imagine new possibilities of how we might choose to re-inhabit the city space. Read More

The Return to the City

17:00
Thu 09 Sep

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Join us for the launch of a special issue of MIRAJ (Moving Image Review & Art Journal) that engages with the current crisis, providing testimonies to the experience of the past the year and imagining new strategies in a post pandemic world. Read More

Launch of MIRAJ Special Issue: “Artists’ Moving Image, Isolation and Covid-19”

18:15
Thu 09 Sep

Ciné Lumière - Institut français

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The latest film by acclaimed filmmaker Rosine Mbakam is a portrait of Delphine, a young Cameroonian woman now living in Belgium. Read More

Delphine’s Prayers / Les prières de Delphine

18:15
Thu 09 Sep

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From Where They Stood is a meticulous investigation into a rare set of clandestine photographs taken by prisoners in concentration and extermination camps during the Second World War. Read More

From Where They Stood / À pas aveugles

18:20
Thu 09 Sep

Bertha DocHouse

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Tatiana Mazú González constructs an oblique portrait of the female experience of coal country through archive footage, geological maps, landscape shots, photographs and text message exchanges with her aunt Read More

Shady River / Río Turbio