Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland ( Renée Zellweger ) arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in T...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 118 minutes

'The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute ...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 192 minutes

Shaun is back! And there's a new arrival in town who's a little alien... meet Lu-La. Strange lights over the quiet town of Mossingham herald the arrival of a mystery visitor from far across the galaxy...

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• Fri 18 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 87 minutes

Warner Bros. Pictures’ Joker stars Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro , and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips. ...

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• Fri 18 Oct to Thu 24 Oct
• 122 minutes

The flightless angry birds and the scheming green piggies take their beef to the next level in The Angry Birds Movie 2! When a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger, Red (Jas...

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• Sat 19 Oct
• 97 minutes

This fascinating cinema event opens with a brand-new documentary about the life and work of Paul Gauguin, one of the world’s most popular and important artists. Filmed in Tahiti, France, the Marquesas...

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• Mon 21 Oct
• 90 minutes

Do you remember the magic of your first cinema visit and the excitement of the big screen? Toddler Time aims to introduce some of our youngest audience members to the world of film. Every Tuesday a...

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• Tue 22 Oct
• 60 minutes

Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. A sour director, Zach, and his brusque assistant whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. All tell their life s...

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• Tue 22 Oct
• 143 minutes

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story. Confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide, our two young lovers...

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• Tue 22 Oct
• 127 minutes

Join us for this special preview screening followed by a live satellite Q&A with director Ken Loach. Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial...

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• Wed 23 Oct
• 145 minutes

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife ...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 180 minutes

The Phoenix is delighted to be welcoming Martin Bright , the journalist who brought this story to the world. He will be joined by journalist Peter Beaumont for a special panel discussion chaired by wr...

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• Fri 25 Oct
• 112 minutes

Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa i...

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• Sat 26 Oct
• 76 minutes

Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier...

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• Sat 26 Oct to Wed 30 Oct
• 240 minutes

Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, a clandestine group of journalists, scholars, and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto vowed to defeat Nazi lies and pro...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 95 minutes

Raymondais betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand o...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 240 minutes

A Way of Life In Amma Asante's BAFTA award-winning 2005 debut, set in Wales, single teen mum Leigh-Anne ( Stephanie James ) becomes increasingly paranoid under the constant pressure of both social se...

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• Mon 28 Oct
• 112 minutes

See the award-winning one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to cinemas from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (TV's Fleabag, Ki...

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• Mon 28 Oct to Sat 16 Nov
• 90 minutes

Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased his extraordinary genius, but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial eleme...

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• Tue 29 Oct
• 104 minutes

This new CG animated film is a cosmic fantasy, but it’s also grounded firmly in the real world. Suha is a girl just entering her teens, and she’s not happy. She’s mourning her father who died a year a...

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• Sat 2 Nov
• 75 minutes

Our Cinememories dementia friendly screenings are free for anyone over 60 and two guests of any age, such as friends, family or carers. The screenings will be shown with brighter lighting, quieter sou...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 131 minutes

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage, this mixed programme highlights the versatility of ...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 180 minutes

Hansard; noun. The official report of all parliamentary debates. See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van, The Queen), in t...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 100 minutes

Just over fifty years ago, South Korea released its first feature-length animated film. A Story of Hong Gil Dong (Shin Dong-hun, 1967) is based on a nationally famed hero story, dating back centuries....

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• Sat 9 Nov
• 68 minutes

Hui He stars as the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer, sung by Andrea Carè. Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, singing Sharpless for the ...

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• Sat 9 Nov to Mon 11 Nov
• 240 minutes

Omri, a young Israeli soldier, suffered a traumatic brain injury during a military operation in Gaza, and fell into a coma. Lying in his hospital bed, he is surrounded by his parents, sister and frien...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 81 minutes

A thoroughly absorbing psychological drama from Israeli director Itay Tal. When Anat, the scion of a distinguished musical family, learns that her newborn baby might become deaf, she decides in a mome...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 80 minutes

Having been married for 15 years, Ella and Avner seem to their friends to be the perfect couple. Avner’s faith in his marriage, however, takes a hit when he accidentally finds out that Ella is having ...

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• Sun 10 Nov
• 98 minutes

The World Premiere screening of two winning shorts On The Beaches and Home. Followed by a Q&A with the winning teams, chaired by Asher Tlalim. Booking link: https://booking.ukjewishfilm.org/show...

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• Mon 11 Nov
• 80 minutes

A unique audio-visual journey through a Jewish family’s memories of their lost Iraqi homeland. Projections of The Wolf of Baghdad graphic novel will be accompanied by 3yin, an ensemble of musicians pl...

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• Tue 12 Nov
• 120 minutes

Although Matan Yair started filming Unseen in 2012 it was only after the success of Scaffolding (UKJFF 2017) that he could complete it. It is a nuanced and sensitive film in which the line between rea...

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• Tue 12 Nov
• 68 minutes

Two years after the release of The Zookeeper’s Wife, which portrayed Antonina and Jan Żabiński’s extraordinary rescue operation during the war, this fascinating documentary sheds new light on their st...

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• Wed 13 Nov
• 70 minutes

When Yakov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from school because of her ethnicity, the widowed father decides to fight back. Despite having no political experience, he forms Shas, a new party whose aim is ...

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• Wed 13 Nov
• 92 minutes

Set in 1984, at the height of the Cold War, The Humorist tells the story of successful Russian-Jewish stand-up comedian Boris Arkadiev. Although he is embraced by the KGB and loved by the masses, Arka...

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• Thu 14 Nov
• 100 minutes

Chinese Independent Film Network presents: Earth in Crisis - a Chinese eco-documentary touring season. Through the rolling hills of plastic waste can be heard the faint rustle and laughter of child...

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• Fri 15 Nov
• 120 minutes

When her younger brother Charlie (Gabriel Bateman) unexpectedly disappears into the magical universe of Playmobil, Marla (Anya Taylor Joy) must go on a quest of a lifetime to bring him home. As she se...

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• Sat 16 Nov
• 99 minutes

Bruno Ganz is superb as Sigmund Freud in this heart-rending adaptation of Robert Seethaler’s novel. 17-year-old Franz takes up a job at a Viennese tobacconist shop, where he meets the renowned profess...

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• Sat 16 Nov
• 90 minutes

On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pachais struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to come to a close, Medor...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 240 minutes

Anat and her fiancé have decided to put their wild days behind them and become ultra-Orthodox. Sarai, who was raised in a religious home, joins an all-women pagan cult. The two women may have taken di...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 117 minutes

Despite the numerous scandals, political maneuvers and recent indictments, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu is on his way to becoming Israel’s longest serving Prime Minster. A master of political spin, Netan...

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• Mon 18 Nov
• 87 minutes

This award-winning drama recounts the true story of blue-collar worker Zanis Lipke’s epic rescue operation during the war, which saved the lives of some 40 Jews. Following Nazi invasion in 1942, Zanis...

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• Mon 18 Nov
• 87 minutes

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte , a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón , and the most beloved and hated woman in Argenti...

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• Tue 19 Nov
• 205 minutes

Seven new funny, thought provoking and inventive films from both emerging filmmakers and established artists. Films screening at this event: Harry Kiri, Granny Knows Best, The Jewish Question, The...

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• Tue 19 Nov
• 80 minutes

Czechoslovakia, 1930s. Liesel and her Jewish industrialist husband Viktor build a modernist family home, an architectural masterpiece representing a bright future. That future, however, doesn't materi...

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• Wed 20 Nov
• 103 minutes

This courtroom drama exposes the political motives behind one of the most scandalous cases of miscarriage of justice in the 20th century. Known as "the Butcher of Vilnius", Franz Murer facilitated the...

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• Thu 21 Nov
• 137 minutes

Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Awar...

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• Sat 23 Nov to Sun 24 Nov
• 240 minutes

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colou...

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• Thu 28 Nov
• 180 minutes

This Holiday Season, laugh and sing-a-long with your favourite CBEEBIES Stars and be part of a fabulous interactive show for all the family. This year’s highly anticipated CBeebies Christmas Show is o...

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• Sat 30 Nov to Sun 1 Dec
• 70 minutes

Former carnival performer Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) and maid Jean (Glynis Johns) are assigned to protect the infant royal heir from tyrannical King Roderick I (Cecil Parker). While Jean takes the ba...

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• Tue 3 Dec
• 127 minutes

A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls. The intricate choreography is set to Delibes’ deli...

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• Tue 10 Dec
• 180 minutes

The perennial Christmas favourite, It's a Wonderful Life is still a staple of the festive season. This ultimate feel-good favourite, from Oscar -winning director Frank Capra , stars James Stewart as d...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 162 minutes

The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Herr Drosselmeyer t...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 150 minutes

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the mos...

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• Sat 11 Jan to Sun 12 Jan
• 240 minutes

This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both in its new home after World War II a...

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• Thu 16 Jan
• 180 minutes

The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrech...

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• Sun 26 Jan
• 240 minutes

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyricalarias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poig...

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• Wed 29 Jan
• 180 minutes

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National Opera, hailed as a triumph at its premiere in Lond...

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• Sat 1 Feb to Sun 2 Feb
• 240 minutes

Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious swan-woman by the lake, Odette, and is captivated by her. His vow of eternal love to her will have ir...

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• Sun 23 Feb
• 240 minutes

Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Roya...

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• Tue 25 Feb
• 180 minutes

In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell...

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• Sat 29 Feb to Sun 1 Mar
• 240 minutes

For the first time at the Met, Sir Bryn Terfel sings the role of the mysterious Dutchman, condemned to roam the seas for eternity, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free.

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• Sat 14 Mar to Sun 15 Mar
• 240 minutes

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise D...

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• Tue 17 Mar
• 180 minutes

In spite of each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love. The rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues will cost Mercutio’s life, causing Romeo a desire of...

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• Sun 29 Mar
• 240 minutes

Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival. While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John...

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• Wed 1 Apr
• 180 minutes

Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns with star soprano Anna Netrebko as the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Ca...

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• Sat 11 Apr to Sun 12 Apr
• 240 minutes

This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the famous jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue, celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St. Peters...

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• Sun 19 Apr
• 240 minutes

Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. The award-winning production by Dam...

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• Tue 21 Apr
• 180 minutes

A mad world of mad kings, teetering on the brink of disaster. Richard the Lionheart is dead. His brother John is King of England. Threatened from all sides by Europe, the English noblemen and even ...

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• Wed 29 Apr
• 210 minutes

Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Eliza...

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• Sat 9 May to Sun 10 May
• 240 minutes

Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling sp...

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• Thu 28 May
• 180 minutes

Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge an...

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• Thu 18 Jun
• 120 minutes