Lyrical, poetic, and mysterious, acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong's BURNING expands a Haruki Murakami short story to create a compelling, lyrical, and mysterious world that explores unr...

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• Mon 18 Feb to Tue 26 Feb
• 148 minutes

“Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, born in the black neighbourhood of some American city… Beale Street is our legacy.” James Baldwin Oscar-winning (eventually) director B...

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• Mon 18 Feb to Thu 28 Feb
• 117 minutes

The delightful Dreamworks Animation blend of striking visuals, humour and pathos that distinguished such classics as SHREK and MADAGASCAR returns with another magical tale that's not just for dragon f...

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• Tue 19 Feb to Fri 22 Feb
• 104 minutes

JELLYFISH is a very special British film that has been steadily accumulating plaudits worldwide - The Grand Jury Prize (Best Film) and the Critics Prize at the prestigious Dinard Film Festival, as wel...

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• Tue 19 Feb to Thu 21 Feb
• 100 minutes

JELLYFISH is a very special British film that has been steadily accumulating plaudits worldwide - The Grand Jury Prize (Best Film) and the Critics Prize at the prestigious Dinard Film Festival, as wel...

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• Thu 21 Feb
• 100 minutes

With CARAMEL, a perfectly judged tale of life in a Beirut beauty salon, director Nadine Labaki won international acclaim. Now, following standing ovations at Cannes (where it went on to win the Jury P...

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• Fri 22 Feb to Thu 28 Feb
• 126 minutes

The Doc'n Roll 2018 Jury prize winner for Best Music Documentary returns to celebrate the love affair between Jamaican and British youth culture told through the story of one of the most iconic labels...

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• Sat 23 Feb
• 86 minutes

The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary soul singer Teddy Pendergrass, the man who was poised to become the biggest R&B artist of all time until a tragic accident changed his life. A co...

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• Sat 23 Feb
• 106 minutes

23:30 til Late - Dark Entries, NTS and Fringe! present Patrick Cowley's School Daze a late night porn soundtrack visual celebration of the life and work of Patrick Cowley at the Rio Cinema! Cowley-sco...

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• Sat 23 Feb
• 120 minutes

Who said girls weren’t scary? Feminist horror film collective The Final Girl present a selection of short films from some of the most exciting new female voices in international genre cinema. Films...

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• Sun 24 Feb
• 90 minutes

The Rio Cinema and Concrete Soldiers Uk presents an evening of films about regeneration and people power. After filming the victory of saving Macintosh Court elder people's home for Concrete Soldie...

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• Tue 26 Feb
• 62 minutes

With CARAMEL, a perfectly judged tale of life in a Beirut beauty salon, director Nadine Labaki won international acclaim. Now, following standing ovations at Cannes (where it went on to win the Jury P...

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• Thu 28 Feb
• 126 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

The incredible, against-all-odds story of Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Tracy Edwards was a charter boats co...

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• Thu 7 Mar
• 97 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

Moving, funny, scary, and humbling stories from the world’s longest walk home from school. CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND is the incredible story of a group of children born in the beautiful but remote ...

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• Sun 17 Mar
• 93 minutes

THE QUEER ARCHIVE presents HE LOVES ME The creative platform THE QUEER ARCHIVE presents an after hours screening of the 18rated and critically acclaimed Greek/U.K film production of HE LOVES ME by ...

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• Fri 22 Mar
• 72 minutes

The film, which has been hailed as the first musical-documentary, features around 20 musical numbers shot on location in various places around Anatolia and examines the influence of ancient civilizati...

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• Sat 23 Mar
• 96 minutes

Jazz in Turkey is documentary project that explores the condition, evolution and interaction of Turkish jazz music and its musicians, in parallel to Turkish history. The film will be followed by a ...

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• Sat 23 Mar
• 110 minutes

Nublu is about the underground club and live music venue in New York run by Turkish owner İlhan Erşahin. It features big chunks of musical performances from Nublu Orchestra, Henry Threadgill’s Ensembl...

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• Sat 23 Mar
• 73 minutes

We Are Parable presents SET IT OFF As part of the “Secure The Bag” Weekender, we bring you the 1996 classic “Set it Off” starring Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah. Four lifelong friends find themselves...

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• Fri 5 Apr
• 118 minutes

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. Broadcast live from the Noël Coward Theatre and starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James in the roles created by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter i...

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• Thu 11 Apr
• 130 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

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel SMALL ISLAND, adapted by Helen Edmundson, in an epic new theatre adaptation. filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. With a ...

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• Sun 30 Jun
• 170 minutes

We Are Parable presents INSIDE MAN as part of the Secure The Bag Weekender. From the one and only Spike Lee comes his first ever studio film and his second highest grossing (After the recent BlacKk...

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• Opening Mon 18 Feb
• 126 minutes

We Are Parable presents DEAD PRESIDENTS as part of the Secure The Bag Weekender.. Anthony Curtis is about from graduate from high school in 1969, but decides he's going to fight in the Vietnam War....

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• Opening Mon 18 Feb
• 119 minutes