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Tuesday, 13 May
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Nora Turato: pool7
The first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, graphic design, video and sound.
Films
An Unfinished Film
4:00 PM
8:45 PM
January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.
Films
Seeking Mavis Beacon
4:20 PM
A DIY investigation to uncover the woman behind the face of ‘Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing’, an educational software programme developed in the 1980s. 
Films
Queer East Festival 2025
UK PREMIERE
Bel Ami
6:10 PM
In a sleepy town in China, a middle-aged man is unwilling to endure a stagnant existence, and experiencing true love, decides to come out of the closet.
Films
Riefenstahl
6:30 PM
An insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, but continually denied any closer ties to the regime.
Talks & Engagement
Speaking Futures
WIP: Sharing Space with Joshua Woolford
7:00 PM
A series of performance-based work in progress crits led by Diasporas Now in collaboration with 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. The first session in the series showcases work in progress by transdisciplinary artist Joshua Woolford.
Films
Spectres
The Cinema of Jacques Rivette
Haut bas fragile (4K Restoration)
8:20 PM
Inspired by MGM’s low budget musicals of the 1950s, Rivette crafts an all-singing all-dancing sojourn through a sweltering Parisian summer in this captivating story of love, friendship and liberation.