Andrei Tarkovsky's extraordinary and haunting exploration of exile, memory, and faith returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.

A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 1981, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what Ishmael Reed calls the "triteness of everyday life."

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. 

Éléonore drives West. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.

A raw, improvisational “meta–soap opera” directed by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) that captures Black working-class life in late-1970s Harlem with startling intimacy. 

This special programme brings together four shorts from between 1984 – 1992 by music video director Richard Heslop with an intro from archivist Nicole Atkinson.