Dir.: Feng Xiaogang; Cast: Fan Bingbing, Guo Tao, Da Peng Zhang Jiayi; China 2016, 138 min. Director Feng Xiaogang (Back to 1942) and writer Zhenyun mock the Party bureaucrats but fail...

Director: Andrzej Zulawski France/Portugal​ Comedy ​100mins Andrzej Zulawski gets in and amongst it with COSMOS, his first feature in 15 years. This French-language adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz’s 1965 novel is a top-to-bottom...

Director: Xavier Koller Cast: Necmettin Cobanoglu, Nur Surer, Emin Sivas, Erdinc Akbas 110min | drama | Turkish Swiss director Xavier Koller's road movie was the first in the crop of immigration stories that...

Director: Pierre Bismuth With: Ed Rushca, Michael Scott, DV DeVincentis, Anthony Peckham, Mike White 97min | Doc | US Well known artist Ed Ruscha made an unusual piece of art in 1979 that...

Dir.: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Cast: Max Brebant, Roxanne Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier France/Belgium/Spain 2015, 81 min. It is nearly eleven years since Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s memorable debut feature Innocence, which dealt with a teenage girl in a...

The Barbican is delighted to present New East Cinema, a new bi-monthly film series accompanied by ScreenTalks, which begin in April 2016. The series is a collaboration between the Barbican...

Director: Josh Mond USA​ Drama ​88mins Having produced the likes of MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (2011) and SIMON KILLER (2012), Josh Mond makes his directorial feature debut with JAMES WHITE, whose bland,...

Director: Mauro Herce Writers: Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz Rivas Spain/France | Documentary | 70 min Mauro Herce’s invigoratingly nightmarish DEAD SLOW AHEAD is the masterclass in sound design that your ears never knew...

Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's makes slow-burning, sensitively-observed films about the intricacies of relationships between men and women, often meeting for the first time. There is plemty of dialogue embued with...