The wildly intricate, very darkly funny and critically lauded new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, is surprisingly a costume drama but, unsurprisingly from the director of DOGTOOTH, THE LOBSTER and THE KIL...

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• Thu 17 Jan to Thu 24 Jan
• 120 minutes

Sundance award-winning documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS tells the astonishing story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of 19, that they are identical triplets, separated at bi...

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• Thu 17 Jan
• 97 minutes

It is love—not blood—that defines a family. Hirozaku Kore-eda’s 2018 Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a richly observed look at life from one of modern cinema’s most masterly, insightful and exquisitely se...

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• Thu 17 Jan to Sun 20 Jan
• 121 minutes

Fresh from his breakout role in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, Timothée Chalamet turns in another dazzling performance in BEAUTIFUL BOY the in turn realist and poetic story of a family's struggle and survival ...

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• Fri 18 Jan to Thu 24 Jan
• 120 minutes

In the summer of 1973, five men and six women embarked on a 101-day experiment devised by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés. Aboard a small raft named Acali, they drifted across the Atlantic. Th...

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• Fri 18 Jan to Thu 24 Jan
• 98 minutes

LSFF 2019: NEW SHORTS: MIDNIGHT MOVIES Our choice selection of bite-sized horrors served up as is LSFF tradition: at (just about!) midnight. Expect hints of Under the Skin sprinkled with Stranger...

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• Fri 18 Jan
• 91 minutes

LSFF 2019: CLUB DES FEMMES: I WANT A DYKE FOR PRESIDENT Queer films to #FuckTrump. These short works, new and old, remind us another world – one radical – is possible and that queer filmmakers an...

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• Sat 19 Jan
• 90 minutes

LSFF 2019: A CONSTELLATION OF COSMIC QUEENS “I don’t fear blows because I am a warrior.” In this kaleidoscopic offering of Afrofuturist short works, we’re taken into the orbits of the Cosmic Que...

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• Sat 19 Jan
• 90 minutes

A chance to see all the winning films from this year’s LSFF in one programme. See LSFF 2019’s Best UK and International short films, and many more fresh from Awards glory! Full programme announced on ...

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• Sun 20 Jan
• 90 minutes

Fresh from his breakout role in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, Timothée Chalamet turns in another dazzling performance in BEAUTIFUL BOY the in turn realist and poetic story of a family's struggle and survival ...

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• Thu 24 Jan
• 120 minutes

“I made a conscious decision because of Stevie Wonder not to be superstitious.” In a period of political uncertainty, economic gloom and a fairly joyless festive period, one nugget of comedy cultur...

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• Sat 26 Jan
• 95 minutes

Is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live. It marks the playwrights 18th collaboration with the National Theatre, and acclaimed director Neil Amfiel...

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• Thu 31 Jan
• 180 minutes

A Biopic on the life of the legendary American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, on his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. Exploring the sacrifices and costs on the Nation an...

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• Wed 13 Feb
• 181 minutes

A preview of a very special British film which has been steadily accumulating plaudits worldwide - The Grand Jury Prize (Best Film) and the Critics Prize at the prestigious Dinard Film Festival, as we...

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• Wed 13 Feb
• 120 minutes

BORDER (15) Valentine's Day Preview + Goody Bag Sub-titled. Fantastic in every sense of the word, BORDER is a decidedly alternative offering for Valentine's Day from the writer of the cult ...

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• Thu 14 Feb
• 110 minutes

Most Israelis pass through the central bus station in south Tel Aviv as fast as they can. It is dirty and decaying, its maze of corridors a haven for drug addicts. The story of an ambitious vision and...

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• Sat 16 Feb
• 100 minutes

CONCRETE SOLDIERS UK An exhilarating and inspirational journey which reveals the battles being fought against the big developers and local councils who are splitting apart communities in the name o...

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• Tue 26 Feb
• 62 minutes

Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law - they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of ...

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• Fri 1 Mar
• 94 minutes

Join us at the Rio Cinema in Hackney, London on 14th April 2019 for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating exploration of some of the wildest places on earth. We’ll be joined by Jenny Graham, an enduran...

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• Thu 14 Mar
• 180 minutes

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama. America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Jo...

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• Tue 14 May
• 180 minutes