17 January
Activist-director and independent cinema trailblazer Penny Allen’s satirical docudrama tackles gentrification through an eccentric collective’s attempts to save their neighborhood by purchasing a residential Portland block. UK Premiere.
23 November
Following its fall in 1989, many sections of the Berlin Wall migrated to the USA. A cinematic roadtrip to these transplanted artefacts of geopolitical division becomes a nuanced reflection on ‘the free world’ of the present. UK theatrical premiere.
22 September
Bêka & Lemoine (Koolhaas Houselife, Barbicania) embark on an intimate guided tour of Tokyo, as passengers of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ryue Nishizawa and his temperamental vintage Alfa Romeo. UK theatrical premiere.
10 July
Frederick Wiseman – one of cinema’s greatest documentarians – reveals the labour involved in making a city that works for its citizens, through observing Boston’s mayor and city government, in panoramic witness to the textures of democracy in action.
23 May
A transcendent observation of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps and its ascetic Carthusian order. A rare, transformative cinematic experience. A film that more than depicting a monastery, becomes a monastery itself.
15 March
An intimate journey through the work, life and character of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto – one of the 20th century’s greatest modern designers. Screening exclusively at Barbican Cinema on Demand, 15 March - 30 April.
14 August
Artist Jill Magid’s 'post-mortem love triangle' takes us on the journey of her radical project to reanimate the privately-held archives of one of the 20th century’s most significant architects – Luis Barragán.
31 March
A transcendent observation of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps and its ascetic Carthusian order. A rare, transformative cinematic experience. A film that more than depicting a monastery, becomes a monastery itself. Future date TBA.
29 February
Headlined by Alain de Botton, this afternoon of talks will draw on the themes raised by Congregation, the Architecture Foundation's exhibition of recent religious architecture.
20 January
100 years to the day after Fellini’s birth, 20 January 2020, the UK premiere of Cineteca di Bologna’s new 4K restoration of the Italian director’s bold, lavish and kaleidoscopic love letter to the Eternal City. Introduced by Alessandro Carrera.
9 January
Are nuclear family homes an architectural tool of repression and social control? Turncoats returns for its third season tackling fundamental issues facing contemporary practice
13 November
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, two idiosyncratic films tell two of its more unusual stories: the love affair and marriage between a Swedish woman and the wall itself, and a tale of its rise and fall from the perspective of its resident rabbits.
