A hotel waitress Madeleine who is mother to a little boy, meets a rich student François. The relation between them becomes so intense, but over time it's evident that François is trying to escape by entangling Madeleine's destiny with his.

"This is a solid, watchable drama that... evocatively tallies the costs of living on the wrong side of social and sexual conventions in the 1950s and 60s." Wendy Ide, Screen International

France 2024

French Language with English Subtitles

Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother’s exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate. Jimmy begins to dream of a different life…

"Emmanuel Courcol creates a film full of dignity and values ​​that moves you to the core without resorting to easy tears." Beatriz Martínez, Fotogramas

France, 2024

French Language with English Subtitles

The story of a family and a family business.

Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor. With: Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis.

Directed by Wes Anderson.

THE SALT PATH is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor (Gillian Anderson) and Moth Winn’s (Jason Isaacs) 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.

After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate decision to walk in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a sense of acceptance. With depleted resources, only a tent and some essentials between them, every step along the path is a testament to their growing strength and determination. THE SALT PATH is a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure - a portrayal of home, how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.

"With understated performances from Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, as well as immersive land and soundscapes that enhance the thematic pull, this portrait of loss, humanity and rebirth makes it worth the emotional investment." Courtney Howard, Variety

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas.

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

From visionary director Benedict Andrews, this acclaimed production was filmed live during a sold-out run at the Young Vic Theatre in 2014.

The running time of A Streetcar Named Desire is 3 hours and 18 minutes including an interval.

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

"Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan are a disarmingly delightful trio in a quirky and music-filled comedy set on picturesque Welsh shores." Tomris Laffly, Variety

THE ENCAMPMENTS is a brave and powerful new documentary following the Palestine solidarity protests that erupted across university campuses in 2024. With gripping footage of the protesters’ struggle, the film shows the peaceful nature of the movement and the momentous challenges it faces.

Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers and organisers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe. Timely, urgent and filled with a clear-eyed fury, THE ENCAMPMENTS is a rallying cry for those who refuse to be silenced and a message of hope for the people of Palestine.

"At only 80 minutes, The Encampments tells a fascinating, ripped-from-the-headlines story. Its brevity is apt, since the incomplete story is still unfolding, and nobody knows where or how it ends." Murtada Elfadl, Variety

Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) teaches piano at the Conservatory in Vienna. In her early forties, she lives at home, cooped up with her mother, whose influence Erika escapes only on her regular visits to porn cinemas and peepshows. Her sexuality is an affair of morbid voyeurism and masochistic self-mutilation. Erika and life travel separate paths. Until one day, one of her students gets it into his head to seduce her...

"A dark, intelligent, and thought-provoking examination of female repression." BBC.com

France/Austria 2001

French Language with English Subtitles

The Piano Teacher is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

When young mum Molly (Posy Sterling) is released from prison after serving four months, she assumes it will be a matter of hours before she can pick up her children from foster care. Instead, Molly finds herself in the mother of all catch-22s: she can’t get housing because she doesn’t have her kids living with her; but she can’t get them back without a roof over her head. When Molly reconnects with her childhood friend, and fellow single mother, Amina (Idil Ahmed), the two women join forces and take destiny into their own hands.

Written and Directed by Daisy-May Hudson

★★★★ “Powerful…an impassioned, humane and urgently performed drama.” — The Guardian

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming, and full of contradictions, dreams of experiencing

love akin to a Jane Austen novel. Instead she finds herself stuck in desperate singlehood,

spending her days working in the legendary British bookshop, Shakespeare & Co in Paris,

rather than pursuing her own ambitions of becoming a novelist. But when an unexpected

invitation to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England lands in her lap, Agathe is in for

an eye-opening and life-changing experience.

Encouraged to confront her insecurities and explore her true romantic, sexual and creative nature, in part thanks to her eccentric co-residents, Agathe realises it’s time to stop wasting her sentimental life and take control - over both her writing aspirations, and her very own love story.

Starring Camille Rutherford (Anatomy of a Fall), Pablo Pauly (The French Dispatch) and

Charlie Anson (Death on the Nile), Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is an uplifting and heart-

warming throwback to classic romance, with a modern sensibility, marking the directorial

debut of acclaimed screenwriter Laura Piani.

France, England, 2025

French Language with English Subtitles

Award-winning filmmaker Tal Amiran returns to the ArtHouse for a special showcase of his powerful short documentaries.

Tal’s first short film, Seven Days a Week - a moving portrait of legendary Crouch End paper seller Paul Saxton, premiered at the Crouch End Festival in 2015 and went on to screen at major film festivals around the globe, earning widespread acclaim.

This special event features a curated selection of Tal’s subsequent award-winning short documentary films, culminating in a screening of his latest work, Weree, a striking documentary about celebrated Outsider Artist Johnson Weree.

The programme will be as follows:

Seven Days a Week (2015, 10 min)

Sand Men (2017, 14 min)

Dafa Metti (2020, 15 min)

Weree (2024, 14 min)

The screenings will be followed by a conversation led by film historian, commentator, critic, and curator Ian Christie FBA.

Please note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

When her mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young Eve (Fantine Harduin) is sent to live with her estranged father’s relatives in Calais. The Laurent family – wealthy, neurotic and self-obsessed – own a lucrative construction company and live in a sprawling mansion house, waited on by servants. But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own.

"The film both demands and rewards our close attention, but Haneke is such a master -- his framing so precise, his form so rigorous -- that it sucks you in by default." Ben Croll, TheWrap

France/Germany/Austria 2017

French Language with English Subtitles

Happy End is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding

An emotional and hilarious story with a life-affirming message, The Last Journey is a cinematic experience that explores a loving son’s attempts to coax his aging father into reengaging with life by embarking on a joyous, heartfelt road trip through the South of France.

"Projects pure beauty and an uplifting nature in telling its central story around two men and their determination to reaffirm life’s wonder for another." The AU Review

Sweden 2024

Swedish Language with English Subtitles

Without warning, happy, successful Parisian couple Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne Laurent (Juliette Binoche) receive anonymous videos suggesting that they are being stalked. The tapes are followed by disturbingly violent, if childish, drawings.

Georges, a well-known literary talk show host, shrugs off the mysterious messages, but Anne grows increasingly distressed and fearful for their teenage son. She grows to suspect that an incident in Georges' past is behind the increasing torment.

"A creepy, complicitous thriller that ratchets up the tension even as it asks us to study the mechanics of film fright." TIME Magazine

France/Austria/Germany 2005

French Language with English Subtitles

Hidden is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

Using their social status and harsh punishments, a baron (Ulrich Tukur), a doctor (Rainer Bock) and a pastor (Burghart Klaussner) rule over a small German village. One day, the doctor falls off his horse after it trips over a wire strung between two trees. More pranks follow, seemingly without reason, all directed at the village's upper class and growing increasingly more brutal with time. There are no suspects, but a local schoolteacher (Christian Friedel) has his suspicions.

"It's [Haneke's] least aggressive and most mature film - a masterpiece from a director who is increasingly making a habit of them." Dave Calhounn, Time Out

Germany 2009

German Language with English Subtitles

The White Ribbon is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

Amidst the profound social change and political turmoil of 1960s post-war Japan, a bold generation of avant-garde artists emerged, redefining the boundaries of art through underground theatre, experimental photography, surreal illustrations, and the radical dance of Butoh.

Their groundbreaking creations not only captured the spirit of their time but also transformed the global art landscape forever. The film features over 700 artworks, rare archive footage and interviews with Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daidō, Hosoe Eikoh, Ishiuchi Miyako, Tanaami Keiichi, Yokoo Tadanori, Mishima Yukio, Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Terayama Shūji and many more.

Following the screening, there will be a Live Q&A with director, Amélie Ravalec.

Please note: Prompt start as no ads/trailers.

In Paris, one incident is seen through the eyes of several people -- Anne (Juliette Binoche), a stressed actress thirsty for success; her boyfriend Georges (Thierry Neuvic), who is a photographer; Romanian immigrant Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu), who is not legally allowed to work in France and Amadou, (Ona Lu Yenke), a caring teacher who is sympathetic to marginalised people. All become swept up in racial tensions and legal issues that stem from a single, careless act of littering.

"The most intellectually stimulating and emotionally provocative piece of European cinema of recent times." Richard Falcon, Sight & Sound

France/Germany/Romania 2000

French Language with English Subtitles

Code Unknown is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have spent their lives devoted to their careers and to each other. Their relationship faces its greatest challenge when Anne suffers a debilitating stroke. Though Georges himself suffers from the aches and infirmities of old age, he bravely ignores his own discomfort to take care of his wife, and is determined to keep his promise to her that she never go back to the hospital.

"What Haneke give us with Amour is a love story, one that is compassionate, powerful and intelligent, and that treats its protagonists and its audiences with respect." Catherine Wheatley, Sight & Sound

France/Austria/Germany 2012

French Language with English Subtitles

Amour is one of the films we're showing as part of COMPLICIT: A MICHAEL HANEKE RETROSPECTIVE

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie.

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.