Rear View

Rear View is our look back at film history with themed selections and special screenings, featuring films very rarely screened in cinemas. Our Kafkaesque Cinema selection, in partnership with the University of Leeds, features five films that resonate with ideas in the writings of novelist Franz Kafka. The selection includes Ferdinand Khittl’s The Parallel Street from West Germany, Hugo Santiago’s Invasión from Argentina, and Ousmane Sembene’s Xala from Senegal, screening on 35mm.

In partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute, we present a selection of films based on the work of sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, in the year of the centenary of his birth. The selection features Marek Piestrak’s Pilot Pirx’s Inquest, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, and a short film programme with legendary animators the Quay Brothers in attendance.

Rear View also includes a selection of Japanese film masterpieces from the BFI Japan 2021 touring programme, with two Akira Kurosawa films – Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood, Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story, and Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses.