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On screen this week, we open the highly-anticipated Christopher Nolan epic Dunkirk; a portrait of German artist Joseph Beuys; French political thriller Scribe; and Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma The Colours of Life a finely crafted tribute to the filmmaker. One-offs include the first two films in our Road Movies season, Road Movie and The Last Detail and the conclusion of our Crossings: Stories of Migration season, Between Fences.

Highlights: Cinema

Road Movies

Sat 22 Jul 2017 – Wed 23 Aug 2017

From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the...

God's Own Country +Q&A... (CTBA)

Starts Mon 21 Aug 2017 at 18.10

Johnny, a young sheep farmer from Yorkshire, has sacrificed his own life choices to run the family farm....

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The Last Detail (18)

Last session: today at 13.00

Hal Ashby’s follow-up to 1971’s Harold and Maude is a similarly anti-authoritarian fable.

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Fri 28 Jul - Thu 3 Aug

Fri 21 Jul - Thu 27 Jul

Scribe (15)

Tomorrow 14.05, 18.30

After a drink-fuelled breakdown, unemployed Duval receives an offer from a mysterious businessman.

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma The Colours of Life (12A)

Tomorrow 15.45, 20.15

A finely crafted tribute to renowned cinematographer Carlo Di Palma.

David Lynch: The Art Life (15)

Tomorrow 13.50, 15.50, 20.35; Fri 16.10, 20.30; Sat 14.00, 18.25; Sun 16.15, 20.30 + more times

An intimate portrait of the master director, screenwriter and producer, David Lynch.

The Beguiled (15)

Tomorrow 13.45, 15.55, 18.10, 20.20; Fri 14.20, 18.25; Sat 16.20, 20.35; Sun 13.00, 18.25 + more times

Sofia Coppola's female-centric take on the novel by Thomas Cullinan.

Dunkirk (12A)

Tomorrow 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40; Fri 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40; Sat 13.40, 16.00, 18.20, 20.40 + more times

Featuring an all-star cast, the latest work from Christopher Nolan is about the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Kedi (U)

Tomorrow 13.30, 18.00; Fri 13.55, 16.30, 20.35; Sat 13.15, 18.35; Sun 16.10, 20.35 + more times

Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in...

Beuys (15)

Tomorrow 16.10

An associative, porous portrait of Joseph Beuys which, like the artist himself, opens up spaces for ideas.

NT Live/ Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika (15)

Tomorrow 18.45

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers...

Chubby Funny (15)

Fri 13.05, 18.15; Sat 14.05, 16.10; Sun 18.15; Mon 16.20, 20.35 Tue 13.30, 18.15 + more times

Oscar thinks he’s special – he isn’t. Oscar thinks it’s everyone else’s fault – it’s not. Moving to...

The Big Sick (15)

Fri 13.35, 15.10, 17.45, 20.20; Sat 13.45, 15.10, 17.45, 20.20; Sun 12.25, 15.10, 17.45, 20.20 + more times

A joyful, emotive and ruefully hilarious story, The Big Sick is eloquent on racial anxieties but also on...

Victim (PG)

Fri 15.50, 20.25; Sat 16.05, 20.25; Sun 14.00, 18.10; Mon 13.45, 20.25 Tue 15.35, 20.25 + more times

Basil Dearden's ground-breaking 1961 thriller paved the way for the legalisation of homosexuality in Britain.

City of Ghosts (18)

Fri 18.10; Sat 20.30; Sun 14.05, 20.25; Mon 16.00 Tue 20.30 + more times

A real-life international thriller, City of Ghosts exposes a new type of warfare.

The Wizard of Oz (U)

Sat 11.00 Sun 11.00

When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a tornado she ends up in the magical land of Oz.

Mind on the Run: The Basil Kirchin Story (12A)

Sat 18.30

An intriguing look into British music pioneer Basil Kirchin.

The Case of the Three-Sided Dream (18)

Sun 15.00

The story of blind multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Queerama (15)

Mon 18.20

Crafted from the treasures of the BFI National Archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, and encompasses...

Playback

Tue 1 Aug 2017 – Fri 1 Sep 2017

This video exhibition showcases over 200 short films made by young artist filmmakers aged 16-24.

Stranger in Paradise (18)

Tue 18.30

In a classroom in Sicily, recently arrived refugees receive lessons from a teacher who has mixed reactions to...

The HOME Film Podcast #25: July 2017

Jason and Andy return for another round of reviews. This month it's A Change in the Weather, David...

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The Virus of Fear (CTBA)

Starts Wed 2 Aug 2017 at 18.15

As a group of children start their swimming lessons, one of the pool supervisors is accused of kissing...

Fish Tank (15)

Starts Thu 3 Aug 2017 at 13.00

15-year-old school girl Mia's life changes when she befriend's her mother's new boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one...

Candy Mountain (15)

Starts Sat 5 Aug 2017 at 18.00

A co-production that begins in New York before meandering cross country and concluding in Canada, Candy Mountain tracks...

The Motorcycle Diaries (15)

Starts Sun 6 Aug 2017 at 13.00

Based on the journals of both Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries), Brazilian director Walter Salles...

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (15)

Starts Sun 6 Aug 2017 at 18.20

Robert Mugge’s 1980 documentary on Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

RSC Live: Titus Andronicus (Live)

Starts Wed 9 Aug 2017 at 18.45

The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s most bloody play.

Mustang (15)

Starts Thu 10 Aug 2017 at 15.50

A remarkable debut feature that exposes male aggression and highlights the limits of female subordination.

Ambulance (CTBA)

Starts Thu 10 Aug 2017 at 18.20

Ambulance is a raw, first person account of the bombing of Gaza in July 2014. We experience the...

Alice in the Cities (U)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 12.45

The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice...

The Wrong Move (15)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 15.20

With characteristic depth and style, Wim Wenders updates a late-eighteenth-century novel by Goethe, transposing it to 1970s West...

Kings of the Road (18)

Starts Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 17.20

A roving film projector repairman saves the life of a depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into...

Chicken Run (U)

Starts Wed 16 Aug 2017 at 14.00

When a famous Flying Rooster crash lands into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity...

Vanishing Point (18)

Starts Wed 16 Aug 2017 at 18.10

A vintage road movie that’s considered one of the masterpieces of the genre, Vanishing Point is a symbolically...

Little Miss Sunshine (15)

Starts Thu 17 Aug 2017 at 13.00

After Olive receives a place in a beauty pageant final, her family take a cross-county road trip to...

Landscape in the Mist (15)

Starts Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 17.40

The final film in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Silence, Landscape in the Mist continued the Greek director’s attempts to...

God's Own Country +Q&A... (CTBA)

Starts Mon 21 Aug 2017 at 18.10

Johnny, a young sheep farmer from Yorkshire, has sacrificed his own life choices to run the family farm....

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (15)

Starts Wed 23 Aug 2017 at 18.20

This hilarious road movie from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll...

Blue is the Warmest Colour (18)

Starts Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 13.00

This Palme d’Or-winning love story from Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche is an enchanting film focusing on the life...

Pansy! (CTBA)

Starts Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 18.20

Artist Paul Harfleet’s family developed an artistic work, the Pansy Project, to challenge homophobia and promote respect and...

NT Live: Yerma (15)

Starts Thu 31 Aug 2017 at 18.45

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role. A...

The Lunchbox (PG)

Starts Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 18.10

Already a classic of Indian cinema, director Ritesh Batra’s finely tuned love story was an unexpected international success....

One Hour Intro/ Hindies: New Indian Independent Cinema

Sat 16 Sep 16.45

The rise of the Hindie film (Indie + Hindi) has been an illustrious one, taking place in a...

Newton (12A)

Starts Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 18.15

Having already bagged a major prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Newton stars Rajkumar Rao, one of...

Belle de Jour (18)

Starts Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 13.00

One of Luis Buñuel’s mature masterpieces. A cool and elegant comedy of manners following a beautiful, bored doctor’s...

Ankhon Dekhi (15)

Starts Wed 20 Sep 2017 at 18.10

Multi-talented actor, writer and director Rajat Kapoor’s idiosyncratic masterpiece is one of the key works of the new...

ROH Live: The Magic Flute (Live)

Starts Wed 20 Sep 2017 at 19.00

Mozart’s glorious opera The Magic Flute is brought enchantingly to life in David McVicar’s production with beautiful sets...

Hook (U)

Starts Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 11.00

Captain Hook kidnaps his children so an adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) must return to Neverland and reclaim...

The Cinema Travellers (12A)

Starts Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 16.00

One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries to have come out of India in years, Amit Madheshiya and Shirley...

Court (PG)

Starts Tue 26 Sep 2017 at 17.50

An astonishing directorial debut, this skilfully scripted documentary-style melodrama from Chaityane Tamhane won a major prize at the...

Kothanodi (18)

Starts Sat 30 Sep 2017 at 18.00

Based on Indian folk tales, this debut feature is an impressive supernatural horror compendium. Focusing on the lives...

ROH Live: La bohème (Live)

Starts Tue 3 Oct 2017 at 19.00

When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love. But their happiness is...

RSC Live: Coriolanus (Live)

Starts Wed 11 Oct 2017 at 18.45

A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of...

The Ballad of Shirley Collins (CTBA)

Starts Sat 21 Oct 2017 at 17.50

Rob Curry and Tim Plester's documentary sets out to explore the story behind English folk icon Shirley Collins.

Halloween at HOME Hocus Pocus (PG)

Starts Sun 29 Oct 2017 at 11.00

After three centuries, three witches are resurrected on Halloween night, and it’s up to two teenagers, a young...

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG)

Starts Sun 26 Nov 2017 at 11.00

A young boy named Kubo embarks on a magical quest to locate a suit of armour worn by...

NT Live/ Follies (Live)

Starts Thu 30 Nov 2017 at 18.45

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to...

ROH Live: The Nutcracker (Live)

Starts Tue 5 Dec 2017 at 19.00

The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker doll....

NT Live/ Young Marx (12A)

Starts Thu 7 Dec 2017 at 18.45

Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is...

Edward Scissorhands (12A)

Starts Fri 8 Dec 2017 at 18.10

A reinterpretation on the Frankenstein story, Edward’s inventor unfortunately dies before he finishes his creation leaving him to...

Meet Me in St. Louis (U)

Starts Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 20.30

A sparkling musical with stellar performances from Minnelli’s ensemble cast. In one of her finest displays, Set in...

The Muppet Christmas Carol (PG)

Starts Sun 17 Dec 2017 at 11.00

An all singing, all dancing take on the classic Christmas tale, starring Michael Caine in the role of...

Batman Returns (15)

Starts Mon 18 Dec 2017 at 20.10

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can...

ROH Live: Rigoletto (Live)

Starts Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 19.00

The corruption of innocence is at the heart of Verdi’s potent tragedy in David McVicar’s production for The...

ROH Live: Tosca (Live)

Starts Wed 7 Feb 2018 at 19.00

Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a...

RSC Live: Twelfth Night (Live)

Starts Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18.45

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck,...

ROH Live: Carmen (Live)

Starts Tue 6 Mar 2018 at 18.30

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in...

NT Live/ Julius Caesar (12A)

Starts Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 18.45

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that...

ROH Live: Macbeth (Live)

Starts Wed 4 Apr 2018 at 19.00

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of...

ROH Live: Swan Lake (Live)

Starts Tue 12 Jun 2018 at 19.00

Swan Lake has had a special role in the repertory of The Royal Ballet since 1934.

Coming soon: Cinema

The Virus of Fear Q&A

Wed 2 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Ventura Pons for a post-screening Q&A.

England is Mine Q&A

Thu 3 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Mark Gill for a Q&A following this preview screening.

Preview/ England is Mine (15)

Thu 3 Aug 2017

England is Mine offers an amusing and evocative portrait of singer-songwriter Steven Patrick Morrissey.

The Ghoul (15)

From Fri 4 August

A haunting psychological mystery from first-time director Gareth Tunley that occupies the mind of a character introduced to...

Candy Mountain + Intro

Sat 5 Aug 18.00

This screening will be introduced by Jason Wood, Artistic Director: Film at HOME.

Ambulance Q&A

Thu 10 Aug 18.20

We will be joined by director Mohamed Jabaly for a Q&A following this screening.

Landscape in the Mist Intro

Sat 19 Aug 17.40

This screening will be introduced by Ally Davies, Engagement Assistant at HOME.

Le Doulos (12)

Tue 12 Aug 2003 – Wed 23 Aug 2017

A stone-faced Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on...

God’s Own Country Q&A

Mon 21 Aug 2017

We will be joined by director Francis Lee for a Q&A following this preview screening.

Pansy! Q&A

Thu 24 Aug 2017

We will be joined by artist Paul Harfleet for a Q&A following this screening.

Ankhon Dekhi Q&A

Wed 20 Sep 2017

We will be joined by actor, writer and director Rajat Kapoor for a post-screening Q&A.

Zoology (15)

From Fri 22 Sep

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for...

Panel Discussion: India’s Independent Cinema – Past, Present and Future

Tue 26 Sep 2017

This screening will be followed by an informal panel discussion exploring Indian independent cinema.

Kothanodi Intro

Sat 30 Sep 2017

This screening will be introduced by Alexandra Delaney, Birmingham City University.

The Ballad of Shirley Collins Q&A

Sat 21 Oct 2017

We will be joined by producer Paul Williams and directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester for a Q&A...

Disability Film Season

Mon 4 & Wed 6 December

The second Disability Film Season is part of a programme of events planned for December to mark UK...

One Film Wonders

Throughout March

From Phase IV, The Widow, One-Eyed Jacks, Nil By Mouth and Barbara Loden’s astonishing Wanda there is a...

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