From his beginnings as a godfather of filmic Surrealism to his remarkably fertile exile in Mexico to his late-career renaissance as a titan of international cinema, Spanish-born director Luis Buñuel’s richly varied body of work reveals a consummate film-poet whose films overflow with unforgettable, dreamlike images.

"Because you're sick of knowing exactly what you're going to get and you're sick when you get it." The Liberated Film Club continues its monthly fixture, featuring a special guest introducing an unknown short and feature. We're thrilled to welcome Chinese-British novelist, essayist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo as our special guest for this second instalment.

Tarkovsky belongs to that handful of filmmakers who, with a small, concentrated body of work, created a universe. Though he made only seven features, thwarted by Soviet censors and then by cancer, each honoured his ambition to crash through the surface of ordinary life and find a larger spiritual meaning: to heal modern art's secular fragmentation by infusing it with metaphysical dimension. Coinciding with our season on the Russian auteur's close friend, Sergei Parajanov.

One month on from his passing, we pay tribute to the great Jonas Mekas with an evening of films by him and his friends, including Lost Lost Lost on 16mm. Comprising fourteen years of filming, starting from his arrival in America as a political refugee, Lost Lost Lost documents the New York counterculture of the '50s and the development of Mekas' own filming style.

Born in the Soviet Republic of Georgia to Armenian parents, Parajanov studied cinema at the illustrious VGIK in Moscow under Aleksandr Dovzhenko. After he saw Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood, he disowned his earlier films and re-dedicated himself to cinema with the astonishing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. This season presents Parajanov's four key-features and three shorts, including new digital restorations and 35mm prints. Alongside this we're thrilled to present a parallel programme of screenings, performances, talks and discussions.