Events (W.C 13 March)
1.St Patrick’s Film Festival 2023
Various London Venues; Fri 17 – Sun 19 Mar
Irish Film London (IFL) are back with their annual St Patrick’s day film festival. Following where last year’s festival left off, the 2023 festival will take place at venues across London, from Camden to Kilburn and from West London to the West End. This year’s programme includes previews of major new releases and events catering specifically for London’s extensive Irish community.
Find more about the Screenings HERE
2. Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023
Barbican Cinema; Thu 16 – Fri 24 Mar
Celebrate the power of individuals to make a difference at the 27th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London. This year’s festival presents 10 film screenings at the Barbican from 16 – 24 March with in-depth Q&As with filmmakers, film participants, activists, and Human Rights Watch researchers following each screening. All films are also available to watch online on the Human Rights Watch Film Festival streaming platform from Mon 20 Mar at 12.01am to Sun 26 Mar at 11.59pm.
The programme covers a broad range of themes and topics and reflects the festival’s ethos of celebrating the diversity of content and perspective, but what shines through is the determination and courage of individuals to stand up for their freedom and rights.
Find more about the Screenings HERE
3. Oscar® Week 2023
This year’s best films, complete with red carpet! at Barbican Cinemas
Find more about the Screenings HERE
4. Restitution in Motion: The Call for the Return of Cultural Property
Streaming until Tuesday 21 March, Restitution in Motion is an online season of films and discussions exploring historical and new approaches to restitution.
Three new pieces of content have just been added to the programme: Statues Also Die, an early collaboration between Chris Marker and Alain Resnais; a recorded conversation with Dr Aboubakar Sanogo on his work preserving and restoring African cinema; and a written response to the programme by Dr Lennon Mhishi which considers the forms and ways that restitution can occur.
Tickets for this programme are free, but we invite and encourage donations to Ciné-Archives to support their work on restorations of Med Hondo’s early films.
5. 17 – 19 March 2023: First Name: Carmen, Close Up Cinemas
First Name: Carmen
Jean-Luc Godard, 1983, 85 min
“While many argue that Godard‘s later films pale in comparison to his seminal work from the 1960s, First Name: Carmen belies this myth. All the classic Godard trademarks are here: fatalism, romantic scorn, socialist rhetoric, visual symbolism, tortured narcissism (with Godard himself playing Carmen’s lecherous filmmaker uncle), and a healthy dose of Americanisms. Loosely based on the source of Bizet’s opera, this Carmen has its heroine rob a bank in order to fund a film she wants to make. Weaving Beethoven’s late quartets with the cacophony of Parisian traffic and high tragedy with comic farce, Carmen becomes at once a parody of the director’s own work from the 1960s and a prototype for a new cinema for its own time.” – Harvard Film Archive
Showing as part of our year long tribute: Au Contraire: Jean-Luc Godard
Find more information HERE