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Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey (James Stewart) finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. Shocked by what he sees and at the unfore...

HOLDING LIAT Winner – Best Documentary at Berlin International Film Festival 2025 This remarkable and moving documentary follows the capture of Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband, Aviv, kidnapped from their kibbutz on the 7th October 2023, as part of the Hamas attacks. Director Brandon Kramer, a distant US-based relative, is a witness to the enormous strain which threatens to tear the family apa...

POWER STATION When filmmaker-activists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell set out to take their street and local schools off the grid, they kickstart a solar-powered energy revolution. Eccentric and heartwarming – a real-life version of an Ealing comedy - Power Station shows how art and passionate enthusiasm can bring about positive change. POST FILM DISCUSSION Chair: William Kendall is an entrep...

ORWELL: 2+2=5 Narrated by Damian Lewis, Raoul Peck’s film delves deep into George Orwell’s final months as he struggled to complete his dystopian masterpiece 1984 . This documentary explores the prescience of Orwell’s novel, and reflects how Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, and Big Brother echo across the years. POST FILM DISCUSSION Chair: Stephen Sackur presented BBC's interview show HARDtalk for ...

CLOSING NIGHT: THE LONELIEST RACE Alex Craig’s thrilling film documents the emotional and physical trials of sixteen competitors in the 2022 Golden Globe Race. This non-stop nine-month long race is the world’s most mentally gruelling sporting event, allowing no fuel or modern technology, which only six sailors have ever managed to complete. They navigate violent storms and the threat of shipwr...

In his razor-sharp new drama, the prolific Luca Guadagnino ( Call Me by Your Name , Queer ) plunges with refreshing abandon into the murky seas of contemporary morality—and gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career. Roberts embodies chilly, seemingly self-assured Yale philosophy professor Alma Olsson, whose comfortable professional career and domest...

A life-affirming triumph of British cinema powered by a magnificent leading performance from Robert Aramayo, I Swear follows the extraordinary, resilient true story of Tourette's syndrome campaigner John Davidson's journey with Tourette's through his troubled teens and early adulthood. The young John Davidson was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at 15 years old in 1980s Britain – a time when ...

The Fifth Step by David Ireland directed by Finn den Hertog Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden ( Slow Horses , Dunkirk ) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman ( The Office , The Hobbit , The Responder ) starring in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to new...

On the opening night of Oklahoma! , renowned lyricist Lorenz Hart storms out of the performance to regale his trusty barkeep with his acidic charm. Hart knows he must face former creative partner Richard Rogers and his new collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II, but first a moment for dreams and romance. Revelling in its deceptive simplicity, Blue Moon is awash with hilarity and heartbreak, delivered t...

Inter Alia a new play by Suzie Miller Rosamund Pike makes her National Theatre debut in Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin's follow-up to their global phenomenon Prima Facie with this searing examination of modern masculinity and motherhood. Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, a true maverick at the top of her career as an eminent London Crown Court Judge. At work she’s changing and...