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August 2026

Thursday, 27 August

Daily Programme

Films

Cinema and State
Films by Nagisa Ōshima

Among Ōshima's most ambitious works, The Ceremony, is a savage critique of the corrosive abuses of power at the heart of both a patriarchal Japanese family and the nation itself.

Films

UK PREMIERE
The Visitor

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.