In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Bresson constructs his unforgiving vision of original sin out of starkly perceived details, rooting his characters in a dehumanizing material world that withholds any hope of transcendence.

Has' oneiric trance film famously uses a Russian doll structure to leap across time and space, following its unlikely hero across a series of bleak, frightening yet strangely exuberant, landscapes, largely set in a dream Andalusia. The Saragossa Manuscript fully deserves its legendary status as one of most unclassifiable and extraordinary cult/art films of the postwar European cinema.

One Minute Volume Ten is the tenth in the series of artist moving image programmes curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry. The programme is an eclectic mix of films all within the duration of one minute by artists at varying stages of their careers.

Peter Greenaway studied as a painter so it’s no surprise that his early films tend to prioritize visual and structural elements over their slender narratives. This programme presents 8 of Greenaways early films, ranging from his shorts to the epic 3-hour The Falls.

Close-Up, in collaboration with Pushkin House, are delighted to present a film programme dedicated to the acclaimed Soviet and Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov. This special series of events features the UK premiere of his most recent work, Fairytale, and offers the opportunity to explore the major facets of his cinematic universe.

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujirō Ozu.

Mascara Film Club presents a group screening that focuses on Russian imperialism within the broader scope of history. The films included in this program engage with themes of annihilation and extraction, analysing Russia’s infrastructural control and erasure of indigenous, religious and cultural practices.

Made two years before Hitler came to power, Fritz Lang’s first sound film is a great psychological thriller, a trenchant treatise on crime and justice, and a vivid portrait of the rapidly disintegrating Weimar Republic. For once, such words as ‘seminal’, ‘unmissable’ and ‘masterpiece’ are not just hype.

Dick Arnall, the hugely influential producer of many of Britain's most important animators, and a key figure in Channel 4's Animate! commissioning series in the 1990s and early 2000s, would have been 80 this year. This programme gathers just a handful of the numerous often award-winning titles he either produced or consulted on.