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This holiday season, the magic begins on the big screen. Join André Rieu for his 2025 Christmas Concert – “Merry Christmas” and experience joyful carols, beautiful waltzes, and plenty of surprises – it’s the ultimate Christmas cinema event! With his fabulous Johann Strauss Orchestra, and special guests including the sensational Emma Kok and over 400 brass players bringing the majestic sound of Christmas, André’s concert is bursting with warmth, laughter, and holiday cheer. Christmas is André’s favourite time of year - and he can’t wait to share this spectacular concert with you, only in cinemas!
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DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. As the beloved cast of characters navigates how to lead Downton Abbey into the future, they must embrace change and welcome a new chapter. The place we'll always remember. The family we'll never forget. Everything has led to this. The time has come to say goodbye....
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Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography… Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this beautiful new film reveals Caravaggio as never before. Multi-award-winning filmmakers David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky delve into the hidden narratives of Caravaggio’s life, piecing together clues embedded within his incredible art. The intriguing self-depictions within his works — sometimes disguised, sometimes in plain sight — offer a rare window into his psyche and personal struggles. Join us as we unravel the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures. Caravaggio’s masterpieces are some of art’s most instantly recognisable. No one else uses his signature blend of dramatic light, intense naturalism and bold, striking figures. His incredible paintings have captivated audiences for centuries. But there lies a deeper mystery — one that still beckons us to explore. What do these masterpieces reveal about the man behind the brush? Join us as we explore the intriguing clues that help us to finally understand the life – and death – of this remarkable man.
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EXTENDED ENCORE with exclusive new material. Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience – is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the curators of the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Modern and MFA Houston ‘Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon’. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show. Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her face but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the true story of her rebellious, passionate and turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art. Exhibition on Screen’s trademark combination of interviews with world experts and a detailed exploration of her art, with new special bonus footage from the curators of the blockbuster 2026 exhibition, delivers a treasure trove of colour and emotion. This personal and intimate film offers privileged access to her works, her home, her studio and highlights the source of her feverish creativity, her resilience and her unmatched lust for life, beauty and revolution. Created in close collaboration with world experts and those who knew her. Additional new material from the curators of the groundbreaking new Tate Modern and MFA Houston exhibition. “A very watchable film about an ever-intriguing figure. Peppered with copious commentary from the usual top-notch academic and curatorial talent, [the film] strikes a fine balance between her life and work” The Guardian “A fascinating, at times darkly disturbing film, we see Kahlo’s passion and lust for life, people and politics come vividly across in this film, similar in some ways but quite different to other recent biopics about Kahlo, which highlights the source of her obsessive inspiration, productivity and endurance.” Sydney Arts Guide Directed by Ali Ray
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Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in February so that you can enjoy both film and exhibition together. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts. Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.
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This reverential and thrilling documentary is tantamount to an unofficial “making of” film of the monumental 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, also screening at JIFF 2025. Pieced together from over 220 hours of Lanzmann’s own unused footage, it grants fresh perspective on the filmmaker’s process, setbacks and philosophical musings over the 12 years it took to make his most defining work. Unlike Shoah, Lanzmann is present in almost every shot of this film, and director Guillaume Ribot uses passages from Lanzmann’s memoir, ‘The Patagonian Hare’, as narration. This reveals the unseen work that went into making Shoah, including Lanzmann’s filmmaking methods, struggles obtaining financing, and covert tactics used to gain access to interviewees such as fake passports and hidden cameras, sometimes landing Lanzmann in volatile situations when these tactics are discovered. Providentially, this year marks 40 years since Shoah released, 80 years since the end of World War II and what would have been Lanzmann’s 100th birthday.
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In the sleepy rural town of Gniewoszów, Poland, Catholics and Jews co-existed peacefully for hundreds of years before WWII. Today, there isn’t a single Jewish resident in the town. When descendants of some former Jewish residents travel to Gniewoszów from San Francisco to explore their family history, they uncover long-repressed stories of violence that occurred there, even months after the war ended. Seamlessly integrating present-day interviews with archival materials and vivid animation, this award-winning documentary focuses on the last living Holocaust survivor from the town (who now lives in Israel) and a woman who saw Jewish people murdered by their Polish neighbours when she was young. This eyewitness risks her life to tell her story, as it’s now illegal under today’s far-right Polish government to accuse the country of complicity in the Holocaust, but she hopes to learn the fate of a Jewish boy she loved over 70 years ago.
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David and his fiancée Meg are nervously anticipating Shabbat dinner at David’s parents’ Manhattan apartment. The pressure is high because Meg’s Catholic parents are flying in from Wisconsin to meet David’s whole family. They’ve barely blessed the challah before an accident happens, and a dead body turns up in the powder room. Or was it murder? What will they do with the corpse? And how long can the Gelfands keep this a secret from Meg’s pious parents? Hilarious and rapidly paced, Bad Shabbos took home the Audience Award at Tribeca Film Festival for its keenly observed comedy about faith, family foibles and crisis management. The fantastic ensemble cast includes several familiar faces like Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) and Australian Ashley Zukerman (Succession), with a memorable turn from Wu-Tang Clan rapper Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith as the friendly doorman who lends a hand to his favourite tenants.
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Against all odds, the true love story between Joseph Bau and Rebecca Tennenbaum blossomed in the depths of the Holocaust. A gifted artist, Bau risked his life to help others by forging documents for those who managed to escape the camps. While in the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, operated by Oskar Schindler, Bau fell in love with fellow prisoner, Rebecca Tennenbaum. The two were married in a secret ceremony in the camp, a defiant act of love that was depicted in Schindler’s List. Shot in luminous black and white, this film tells Bau’s extraordinary story of hope, resistance and survival, portrayed stirringly by Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Inbar Lavi (Fauda) as Rebecca. Both a daring espionage thriller and a gripping war drama, this film is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the unbreakable bonds of love that even war can’t destroy.
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After a devastating loss, Eleanor, a sassy, wise-cracking 94-year-old, moves from Florida to New York City to live with her daughter Lisa and grandson Max. To encourage her out of the house, Lisa suggests Eleanor visit the local Jewish community centre to make some new friends. There, Eleanor accidentally winds up in a Holocaust support group where she tells a moving story of survival and resilience. But there’s one small problem – the story isn’t hers. June Squibb (Nebraska, Thelma) is perfectly cast to bring this bold and brassy nonagenarian to life. At the heart of the film is a charming intergenerational friendship between Eleanor and Nina, a young journalism student who’s inspired to write an article about Eleanor’s story. This heartwarming comedy marks an assured debut in the director’s chair from Scarlett Johansson, exploring themes of ageing, truth, loss and our human impulse to tell stories.
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After losing his job as a paralegal, anxious thirty-something New Yorker Sam takes a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters. The girls’ dad, David (Alessandro Nivola, The Brutalist), is a bassist heading off on tour with his band and their mother, Dianne (Amanda Peet), is an actor whose promising career stalled after parenthood. Sam and Dianne form a connection that blossoms into a full-blown crush for Sam. But when he’s invited to join the whole family – including his psychiatrist – at their holiday house over the summer, Sam will have to be careful to keep his feelings for Dianne contained. This hilarious comedy is Matthew Shear’s wryly observed feature debut as writer and director, and he’s clearly learnt the trade straight from the sets he worked on as an actor, including four of Noah Baumbach’s films: Marriage Story, The Meyerowitz Stories, Mistress America and While We’re Young.
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In the early 1970s, comedian Jerry Lewis was working on a Holocaust comedy film called The Day the Clown Cried. But for various reasons, Lewis walked off set before finishing the film and it never saw the light of day. Until now. This gripping investigative documentary attempts to piece together what happened with the project that haunted Lewis until his final days. It features interview footage with the comedian before his death in 2017, plus interviews with Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks and actor Harry Shearer, one of the few to see a rough cut of The Day the Clown Cried in 1979. The documentary also shows never-before-seen footage from Lewis’s film, which was once thought lost but was rescued by a Swedish film lab assistant, where the film was marked “to be destroyed”. Was Lewis ahead of his time, or was a Holocaust comedy a misguided idea from the start?
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Both a globetrotting search for long-lost treasure and a concert film, this documentary tells the incredible story of a group of historians, record collectors and musicians rediscovering and reviving Jewish music from 1930s Berlin. On Kristallnacht, the night of November 9, 1938, Nazis violently attacked Jewish people and businesses in Germany, including the two Jewish-run record companies in Berlin at the time, Semer and Lukraphon. Almost all of the companies’ original music materials, lyrics and sheet music were destroyed. Committed detective work on the part of historians and record collectors interviewed in the film has led to the rediscovery and painstaking reassembly of shellac records (pre-dating vinyl records) found in collections across the globe. Today, this historic music lives on through the Berlin-based Semer Ensemble, a group of musicians who have revived and reinterpreted the unearthed recordings, performing them live for audiences around the world.
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Based on the bestselling autobiography by Roland Perez, this exuberant and heartrending film pays tribute to a love like no other – a mother’s love for her child. In 1963, Roland is born to Esther, her sixth child in their close-knit Jewish immigrant family living in the Parisian suburbs. When Esther learns that Roland has been born with a club foot, she vows to ensure her son lives not just a normal life, but a fabulous one. She enlists the help of a determined specialist and the pop songs of Sylvie Vartan (who makes a cameo in the film) to help Roland defy all expectations and learn to walk. This joyful crowd-pleaser is vibrantly shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist) and features a powerhouse performance from Leïla Bekhti (Paris, je t’aime) as the fiercely devoted Esther. The film absolutely smashed the French box office, counting over 1.5 million admissions.
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To others in her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, Bati’s life looks ideal. She’s married to Lazer and together, they have three beautiful children. Behind closed doors, however, the young couple’s marriage is strained, and their lives are rocked when Lazer is blackmailed with photos capturing his secret affair with another man. Desperate to protect her family from scandal, Bati tries everything to seduce her husband back to their marital bed. But in her struggles with this crisis, Bati makes some surprising discoveries about her own sexuality and desires. Nir Bergman (co-creator of the series In Treatment) won the Best Directing prize for Pink Lady at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival where it had its world premiere. Screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich brings lived experience from her upbringing in a Haredi community, telling this nuanced and compassionate story from a woman’s perspective with moments of lightness softening the drama.
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A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying any closer ties to the regime. Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia stand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious. At the same time, these images project contempt for the imperfect and weak. Riefenstahl’s aesthetics are more present than ever today-but is that also true for their implied message? The film examines this question using documents from Riefenstahl's estate, including private films, photos, recordings and letters. It uncovers fragments of her biography and places them in an extended historical context. How could Riefenstahl become the Reich's preeminent filmmaker and keep denying any closer ties to Hitler and Goebbels? During her long life after the fall of Nazism, she remained unapologetic, managing to control and shape her legacy. In personal documents, she mourns her "murdered ideals". Riefenstahl represents many postwar Germans who, in letters and recorded telephone calls from her estate, dream of an organizing hand that will finally clean up the "shit-hole state". Then, her work would also experience a renaissance, in a generation or two this time could come-what if they are right?
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RISING: Voices of Protest and Hope reveals the astonishing power of ordinary Israelis rising from catastrophe to fight for the soul of their homeland. There’s Eran, a grieving father turned activist; Yossi, a therapist who survived the October 7 attacks and immediately began treating others; Elana, a bereaved mother and protest leader; Oded, a choreographer turned crisis responder; and Ayellet, a trauma psychologist helping others understand the profound impact of the war on levels both personal and collective. These five people are part of an unprecedented grassroots uprising in Israel, fighting to defend democracy, end the bloodshed and bring the hostages home. Director Esther Takac (The Narrow Bridge, winner of the JIFF 2022 Audience Award) brings professional expertise to this documentary as a child and adult psychologist specialising in trauma. Through raw, intimate interviews with the four participants, RISING asks urgent questions: how do we hold onto our humanity, resist surging authoritarianism and heal from collective trauma?
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A film about four women who survived Auschwitz as teenagers. Despite their traumas and haunting memories, they have lived to nearly one hundred and are now among the few remaining to bear witness to the Holocaust. They live in Stockholm, have been friends for decades, and share a deep passion for playing bridge. Life proceeds as usual, but suddenly everything changes with Hamas' terror attack and the relentless war in Gaza that follows. A unique film about the Holocaust and the art of survival.
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Constructed entirely from archival footage of the trial itself and contemporaneous news coverage, The Eichmann Trial documents the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. After being apprehended in Buenos Aires, the former Nazi officer was taken to Jerusalem to face justice. The entire court proceedings, lasting almost four months, were filmed and broadcast on televisions around the world – for many, this was the first time they’d come to understand the full extent of the Nazi atrocities during World War II. An editor by trade, this is Elliot Levitt’s debut feature as director, but his editing skills shine in this story assembled from thousands of hours of footage. Levitt situates us in 1961 so concretely, it’s almost as if we’re watching the trial unfold in real time. This is a profound return to a pivotal moment not only in legal history but also for Holocaust awareness and education.
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In the summer of 1923, writer Franz Kafka was convalescing by the seaside at Graal-Müritz when he met Dora Diamant – the last love of his life. The two were like night and day – Kafka, a fragile 40-year-old man dying of tuberculosis and riddled with self-doubt over his writing, and Diamant, a lively and rebellious young woman dreaming of dancing on the stages of Berlin. But their cosmically fated connection lifted Kafka throughout the final year of his life despite his devastating illness. Based on the best-selling novel by Michael Kumpfmüller, The Glory of Life recounts the metamorphic romance between Kafka and Diamant that took them from the Baltic Sea to Weimar-era Berlin to Kafka’s final days in a sanitorium outside Vienna. Where many accounts of Kafka focus on his writings, this poetic and tender drama spotlights Kafka’s inner life, and the joy and acceptance he found with his beloved Dora.
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This sumptuous historical romance follows a young virtuoso pianist named François Touraine. His piano teacher, a Jewish woman named Rachel, recognises great promise in him, so she guides him in his studies to be accomplished enough to enter the conservatory. Years go by and their relationship evolves into more than just student and teacher. But their life together falls under grave threat when the Nazis invade Paris. François is presented with an opportunity to help Rachel, but it comes at a great cost. The Pianist’s Choice is furnished by meticulous period detail in its production design and a soaring score composed by Dimitri Naïditch (who also wrote music for Claude Lelouch’s Chacun sa vie). Oscar Lesage (The Substance) gives a charismatic performance as François alongside Pia Lagrange and Zoé Adjani in this humanistic drama about the personal moral crossroads we face during politically challenging times.
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An edge-of-your-seat thriller that tells the real-life story of a death camp escape. In 1942, Polish Jewish men Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik are prisoners of the Chelmno extermination camp, put to work as gravediggers for their own people. When a taunting game of target practice for the Nazi officers becomes deadly, it’s the final straw for Solomon and Michael. They make a plan to escape and, against all odds, become the first people to provide eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. Guided by astounding performances from the two lead actors, Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Invisible Man, The Haunting of Hill House) as Solomon and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Denial) as Michael, The World Will Tremble depicts the harrowing but sadly little-known experiences of two heroes who risked everything to tell the world their story. The film is a technical marvel, with stunning cinematography, a moving musical score and impressive period production design.
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Sir Frank Lowy has lived many lives. Born in Slovakia in 1930, he lost his father in the Holocaust, he fought in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and left Israel in 1952 for Australia to join family members who had settled in Sydney. There, Lowy met fellow immigrant John Saunders and together they opened their first shopping centre in Sydney in 1959, which led to the multi-billion-dollar international shopping centre empire, Westfield Corporation. At the age of 88, Lowy decided to return to Israel to live there for the remainder of his life. Through archival footage and intimate testimony, this documentary sees Lowy reflecting on his long life as he approaches his 95th birthday. He considers what has shaped his resilience and his indelible Jewish identity, and faces the confronting aftermath of the Hamas attacks by visiting massacre sites and meeting with survivors.
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If you aren’t familiar with Tommy Tycho, you’ve definitely heard one of his musical arrangements many times throughout your life. His arrangement of Australia’s national anthem is the official version played at major sporting and community events to this day. From the late 1950s to the early 2000s, Tycho, a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, was the preeminent musical director in Australia and one of the most accomplished musicians in the country. He was one of the earliest faces seen on Australian television as Channel 7’s first musical director in 1956. He composed over 3000 musical compositions and arrangements throughout his life and toured as a musical director and accompanist for artists like Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Sammy Davis Jr and many more. Through archival materials and interviews with an array of famous faces from Australia’s music industry, including Julie Anthony, Barry Crocker, James Morrison, Todd McKenney and Rhonda Burchmore, this documentary celebrates the indelible mark Tycho left on our country’s cultural landscape.
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Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.
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One secret could tear this family apart.. Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost? Filmed live from the West End, this new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke (Follies, Good), exploring the clash between morality and independence, traditions and progress.
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Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend. Finn den Hertog directs the provocative and entertaining production filmed live from @sohoplace on London’s West End.
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Ballet in three acts (1948) Encore screening! This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family that transports audiences into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true. Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, life for Cinderella (Fumi Kaneko) is dreary and dull is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love with the prince (William Bracewell) awaits.
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Ballet in two acts (1960) 65 years after its premiere, The Royal Ballet invites you to (re)discover Frederick Ashton’s ballet of pure sunshine. Lise (Francesca Hayward), the only daughter of Widow Simone, is in love with the young farmer Colas (Marcelino Sambé), but her mother has far more ambitious plans for her. Simone hopes to marry her off to Alain, the son of the wealthy proprietor Thomas. Desperate to marry Colas rather than Alain, Lise contrives to outwit her mother’s plans. Whisking us away into pastoral bliss with Hérold’s cheerful score and Osbert Lancaster’s colourful designs, this affectionate portrayal of village life combines exuberant good humour and brilliantly inventive choreography in what is undoubtedly Ashton’s love letter to the English countryside.
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Ballet in three acts (2015) Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures, set to an original score by Max Richter. A collage of themes from ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ‘Orlando’, ‘The Waves’ and Woolf’s other writings, this Olivier-award winning ballet triptych captures the heart of Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit.
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Ballet in two acts (1892) The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker; the only way to save him is for the Nutcracker to defeat the Mouse King and find a girl to love and care for him. A flicker of hope comes in the form of the young Clara, whom Drosselmeyer meets at a Christmas party. With some magic, a cosy Christmas gathering turns into a marvellous adventure. Peter Wright’s ‘The Nutcracker’ has enchanted audiences since its 1984 premiere by the Company. Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, ‘The Nutcracker’ is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages.
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Ballet in two acts (1841) The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost. Peter Wright’s atmospheric and bewitching 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, ‘Giselle’ conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.
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Opera in two acts (1791) Princess Pamina (Grammy-winning American soprano Julia Bullock) has been captured. Her mother (Kathryn Lewek), the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino (Samoan-Kiwi tenor Amitai Pati) with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno (Huw Montague Rendall), embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it… Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production, with the star cast assembled led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.
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Opera in three acts (1853) Live and love, to the last breath. At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisan courtesan Violetta (Ermonela Jaho) is introduced to Alfredo Germont (Giovanni Sala). The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart. But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking. As intimate as it is sumptuous, ‘La traviata’ features some of opera’s most famous melodies. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.
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From 20th Century Studios, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe. Starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, the film is written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere” by Warren Zanes. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” also features Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s long-time confidant and manager, Jon Landau; Paul Walter Hauser as guitar tech Mike Batlan; Stephen Graham as Springsteen’s father, Doug; Odessa Young as love interest, Faye; Gaby Hoffman as Springsteen’s mom, Adele; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin; and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive, Al Teller. Arriving only in cinemas October 23, 2025, the film is produced by Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber. Tracey Landon, Jon Vein, and Zanes executive produce.
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Two shows only! From Michelangelo to Bernini, from Raphael to Borromini, this film immerses you in a journey through the four Papal Basilicas in Rome and their treasures. As the Jubilee Year of Hope unfolds, we look back to Pope Francis' opening of the previous Jubilee of Mercy, opened in 2017. This documentary takes you on a journey through the four Papal Basilicas in Rome and their treasures: St. Peter’s (one of the 25 destinations most visited by travellers from all over the world), St. John in the Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls. Four majestic buildings – each with a precious papal altar, each a treasure trove of timeless works of art and a destination for millions of travellers and pilgrims over the centuries – play the leading role in our encored film tour. Introduced with excerpts from 'A Roman Journal' by Stendhal recited by Adriano Giannini, their stories are told by Antonio Paolucci, Paolo Portoghesi, Claudio Strinati and Micol Forti.
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The Travellers is a poignant, funny and heartwarming family story from acclaimed filmmaker Bruce Beresford. Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends & past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.