The second part of our season of films exploring European identity reveals the dreams and calamities that followed the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and helped create the complex Europe of today.
12:08 East of Bucharest
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Sat 28 Nov 18:30 NFT2 book
A laugh-out-loud funny story about a chat-show host commemorating the revolution.
An American in Paris
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Wed 23 Dec 14:30 NFT3 book
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Sun 27 Dec 16:00 NFT1 book
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Mon 28 Dec 18:10 NFT3 book
Gershwin musical classic with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron.
And Along Come Tourists
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Fri 27 Nov 18:20 NFT2 book
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Sun 29 Nov 20:40 NFT2 book
A young man goes to work at the site of Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Black Cat + Cat People
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Sun 20 Dec 15:20 NFT1 book
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Mon 21 Dec 20:00 NFT2 book
One of the most broodingly expressionist of all early Hollywood horror films, plus Jacques Tourneur's first film.
Czech Dream
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Sun 22 Nov 20:45 NFT2 book
A serious documentary about modern Euro-consumerism or a malicious practical joke?
Duck Soup + The Coronation of Edward VII + Tunnelling the English Channel
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Sun 20 Dec 18:00 NFT1 book
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Mon 28 Dec 16:00 NFT2 book
The Marx Brothers' gleefully absurdist satire.
L'Esquive
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Sun 22 Nov 15:40 NFT2 book
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Mon 23 Nov 20:40 NFT2 book
Sweeping the César awards in France, this is a delightful wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance.
La Forteresse
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Sun 29 Nov 18:10 NFT3 book
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Mon 30 Nov 20:50 NFT3 book
A documentary portrait of a Swiss detention centre for asylum seekers.
Das Fräulein
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Tue 24 Nov 18:20 NFT2 book
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Sat 28 Nov 20:45 NFT2 book
An empathetic film set in a Zurich café staffed by three women from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.
Institute Benjamenta
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Sat 5 Dec 16:00 NFT2 book
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Sun 6 Dec 20:30 NFT3 book
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Mon 7 Dec 20:40 NFT3 book
A darkly beautiful and unsettling film that plays like a feverish dream from another era.
Journey of Hope
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Sat 19 Dec 15:50 NFT3 book
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Tue 29 Dec 18:10 NFT3 book
Affecting drama charting the troubled journey a Turkish couple undertake to start anew in Switzerland.
The King of Communism: The Pomp and Pageantry of Nicolae Ceausescu + Q&A with Ben Lewis
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Tue 24 Nov 20:30 NFT3 book
A surprising, funny and entertaining study of a destructive regime.
Mondays in the Sun
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Sat 21 Nov 18:00 NFT2 book
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Fri 27 Nov 20:40 NFT2 book
Six former shipyard workers pass the time at a bar that one of them opened after they were laid off.
Mr Arkadin
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Mon 7 Dec 20:50 NFT2 book
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Sat 12 Dec 16:00 NFT2 book
Orson Welles' labyrinthine tale of an investigation into the past of a mysterious tycoon.
No Man's Land
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Sat 21 Nov 20:30 NFT3 book
Awarded the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this remains the most ferocious film indictment of the war in Bosnia.
Perceval le Gallois
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Sun 13 Dec 16:00 NFT2 book
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Thu 17 Dec 20:10 NFT2 book
Eric Rohmer's brilliant adaption of Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian poem.
Pusher 3
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Mon 23 Nov 18:10 NFT3 book
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Wed 25 Nov 20:45 NFT2 book
A wincingly funny black comedy about a Copenhagen-based Serbian drugs kingpin.
The Rebel
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Sun 27 Dec 18:00 NFT2 book
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Mon 28 Dec 20:40 NFT3 book
Commuter Tony Hancock abandons his boring job for an artist's garret on the Left Bank.
The Shop Around the Corner
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Ernst Lubitsch's deliciously delicate comedy starring James Stewart.
Songs from The Second Floor
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Sun 13 Dec 18:40 NFT2 book
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Thu 17 Dec 18:10 NFT2 book
Roy Andersson's remarkable portrait of a northern European city on the brink of apocalyptic meltdown.
The Man Without a Past
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Sat 28 Nov 16:30 NFT2 book
One of the famously lugubrious Finn's warmest and most upbeat comedies.
This Land Is Mine
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Sat 5 Dec 18:30 NFT1 book
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Sat 12 Dec 18:20 NFT2 book
Jean Renoir's heartfelt plea for humane values, made during WW2.
Waiting For Happiness
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Mon 21 Dec 18:00 NFT2 book
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Tue 29 Dec 20:30 NFT3 book
A poetic, gently funny and deeply compassionate account of life on the edge of the Mauritanian desert.
November calendar (PDF)