Dir. Spike Lee, 2026
Runtime: 105 mins
Language: English

‘Do we get stupider as we grow up?’ In his wildly popular Broadway show American Utopia, David Byrne reflects on human connections, life and how on earth we work through it. He joins the dots with his music and it all starts making sense. Spike Lee here transforms the production into immersive, dynamic cinema that radiates with astounding performances, inventive contemporary dance and political urgency. American Utopia flows like an iridescent dream vision. Work by James Baldwin, Janelle Monáe and Kurt Schwitters is highlighted among exhilarating renditions of Byrne’s solo work, as well as Talking Heads classics. According to the multi-hyphenate, we love looking at humans more than anything else. Anti-fascist and anti-racist, Byrne illuminates our responsibility to care for one another as he and his co-performers burn down the house. 

Screenings
Tuesday 25 August, 7.00pm (+ Intro by David Byrne)
Thursday 27 August, 2.00pm
Saturday 29 August, 1.30pm
Sunday 30 August, 1.10pm
Tuesday 1 September, 4.00pm
Wednesday 2 September, 10.30am

Dir. Imran Perretta, 2026
Runtime: 87 mins
Language: English

Twelve-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram wrestle to hold onto their friendship, in the wake of a traumatic police stop & search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up. 

Screenings
Friday 28 August, 4.30pm
Saturday 29 August, 7.20pm
Sunday 30 August, 3.30pm
Tuesday 1 September, 10.30am
Wednesday 2 September, 2.00pm

Dir. Andrei Tarkovski, 1986 [Re: 2026]
Runtime: 149 mins
Language: French, Swedish, w/ English Subtitles

One of two 4K restorations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films from Curzon.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

Screenings
Friday 28 August, 6.30pm

Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2026
Runtime: 172 mins
Language: English

Presented as part of the Grid Beer Film Club. Stay after the film in the MK Gallery Café for local Grid beer on tap. Meet new people and discuss the film over a beer!

Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey, is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX® film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX® film screens for the first time. The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o, with Zendaya and Charlize Theron. The Odyssey is produced by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan for their company, Syncopy. The executive producer is Thomas Hayslip. 

Screenings
Saturday 29 August, 4.00pm

Dir. Charlie McDowell, 2026
Runtime: 95 mins
Language: English

Follows the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.

Screenings
Friday 4 September, 10.30am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 4 September, 7.20pm
Saturday 5 September, 2.00pm
Sunday 6 September, 3.20pm
Wednesday 9 September, 3.20pm

Dir. Samuel Abrahams, 2026
Runtime: 95 mins
Language: English

Lady is an off-beat comedy about a lonely, narcissistic aristocrat who dupes a struggling, opportunistic director into filming her every move. But her obsession with the spotlight takes a surreal turn when she starts becoming… invisible. Blending mockumentary and magical realism, Lady satirises our desperate need to feel seen.

Screenings
Friday 4 September, 5.00pm
Saturday 5 September, 7.10pm
Sunday 6 September, 1.00pm
Tuesday 8 September, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 8 September, 4.30pm
Wednesday 9 September, 1.05pm
Friday 11 September, 10.30am (Milk & Baby)
Saturday 12 September, 2.00pm
Sunday 13 September, 3.00pm

Dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet, 2026
Runtime: 134 mins
Language: French, w/ English Subtitles

At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices. Based on novel by Constance Debre.

Screenings
Friday 4 September, 2.00pm
Saturday 5 September, 4.20pm
Tuesday 8 September, 1.30pm
Tuesday 8 September, 6.50pm
Wednesday 9 September, 10.20am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Cal Brunker, 2026
Runtime: 88 mins
Language: English

After their ship gets caught in a mysterious storm, the PAW Patrol pups crash land on an uncharted tropical island filled with dinosaurs. They meet Rex, a pup who has been stranded on the island for years and has become an expert in all things dino-related. When the PAW Patrol’s archrival, Mayor Humdinger, begins recklessly mining in hopes of exploiting the island for its natural resources, he inadvertently causes a huge, dormant volcano to erupt. The PAW Patrol pups are thrown into a series of high-stakes, dino-sized rescues bigger than anything they’ve done before, as they must stop Humdinger before everything on the island goes extinct.

Screenings
Saturday 5 September, 10.30am
Sunday 6 September, 10.30am (Relaxed Viewing)
Saturday 12 September, 10.30am
Sunday 13 September, 10.30am (Captioned Screening)

Dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2026
Runtime: 99 mins
Language: English

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighbourhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Screenings
Friday 11 September, 4.30pm
Saturday 12 September, 7.00pm
Sunday 13 September, 1.00pm
Tuesday 15 September, 2.00pm
Thursday 17 September, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Matt Johnson, 2026
Runtime: 106 mins
Language: English

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Screenings
Friday 11 September, 2.00pm
Friday 11 September, 7.00pm
Saturday 12 September, 4.30pm
Tuesday 15 September, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 15 September, 4.30pm
Friday 18 September, 1.00pm
Saturday 19 September, 2.00pm
Sunday 20 September, 12.40pm
Thursday 24 September, 3.10pm

Runtime: 90 mins

In an era of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th century art, he was a contemporary of the Impressionists, much admired by Van Gogh and Manet.

Boldly experimental and famously witty, Whistler disrupted the strict conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of a new cult of beauty, creating “art for art’s sake” and earning himself a place in the history of great art. He found a parallel between painting and music, and entitled many of his paintings “arrangements”, “harmonies” and “nocturnes”, emphasizing the importance of tonal harmony in his work. His most famous painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), commonly known as Whistler’s Mother, is a revered and often parodied portrait of motherhood. It is arguably one of the most famous paintings in history and this film will unveil the artist behind the art.

Tate Britain is now holding the first major retrospective of Whistler in three decades. This blockbuster exhibition promises to reawaken the world to just how important Whistler is to art history, uniting world-famous masterpieces with rarely seen works. Exhibition on Screen will bring these stunning works and the incredible story behind them to cinemas around the world while the exhibition is still running, bringing this truly global artist to a global audience. This will be an unmissable chance to get to know this visually spectacular artist and the influence he has had on those who followed.

Screening
Tuesday 15 September, 7.00pm
Thursday 17 September, 2.00pm
Saturday 19 September, 7.00pm

Dir. Pablo Trapero, 2026
Runtime: 119 mins
Language: English

A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, convinced he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead of seeking forgiveness for his countless mistakes, he instead reveals a truly unbelievable secret that brings his beloved ex-wife back into his orbit. With decades of resentment, jealousy and rage on the verge of spilling over, this splintered family is forced to face an inevitable reckoning, for better or for worse. This star-studded, darkly comedic drama is led by spellbinding performances from Academy Award nominees Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) and Imelda Staunton (The Crown, Vera Drake), BAFTA nominee George MacKay (1917, Rose of Nevada), BAFTA winner Dominic West (The Wire, Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Operation Mincemeat, Ripley), and rising star Noah Jupe (Hamnet, A Quiet Place).

Screenings
Friday 18 September, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Friday 18 September, 3.25pm
Saturday 19 September, 4.25pm
Sunday 20 September, 3.00pm
Thursday 24 September, 12.30pm

Dir. Dave Green, 2026
Runtime: 103 mins
Language: English

After decades of being blown to bits by bombs, demolished by dynamite, mangled by magnets, battered by boulders, trampled by trains, tricked by tunnels, sprung by springs, steamrolled by steamrollers, maligned by misfires, bedeviled by bungees, rattled by rockets, backstabbed by bat suits, rocked by rocket skates, upended by unicycles, quaked by quake pills, rubberized by rogue bands, and hurled headlong off every cliff in the Southwest, Wile E. Coyote (Genius) finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte), he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes.

Screenings
Saturday 19 September, 10.30am
Sunday 20 September, 10.30am (Relaxed Viewing)
Saturday 26 September, 10.30am
Sunday 27 September, 10.20am (Captioned Screening)

Dir. Pedro Almodovar, 2026
Runtime: 111 mins
Language: Spanish

From iconic director Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Carmen Machi, Bárbara Lennie, Rossy de Palma and Leonardo Sbaraglia.

Screenings
Friday 25 September, 2.00pm
Sunday 27 September, 3.00pm
Tuesday 29 September, 7.00pm
Wednesday 30 September, 10.30am
Tuesday 6 October, 2.00pm
Wednesday 7 October, 3.00pm

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun, 2026
Runtime: 112 mins
Language: English

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder, Hacks) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star (Gillian Anderson, The X-Files, Sex Education), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Screenings
Friday 25 September, 10.30am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 25 September, 4.30pm
Saturday 26 September, 2.00pm
Tuesday 29 September, 2.00pm
Friday 2 October, 7.10pm
Saturday 3 October, 2.00pm

Dir. Ridley Scott, 2026
Runtime: 118 mins
Language: English

Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity, with survivors being terrorized by roaming scavengers called “Reapers.” The protagonist is Hig, a pilot who survived the flu that killed everyone he knew, his wife included. He lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting ex-Marine. Hig sometimes heads off in his 1956 Cessna, where he can fish and pretend things are how they used to be. When a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life might exist if he flies a bit further. He risks it all. to chase a possible haven in Grand Junction.

Screenings
Friday 25 September, 7.00pm
Saturday 26 September, 4.25pm
Sunday 27 September, 12.30pm
Tuesday 29 September, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 29 September, 4.30pm

Dir. Indhu Rubasingham
Runtime: 120min

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy. Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

Screening
Saturday 26 September, 7.00pm
Wednesday 30 September, 2.00pm
Tuesday 20 October, 7.00pm

Dir. Kent Jones, 2026
Runtime: 97 mins
Language: English

A long time ago Ed Saxberger wrote a book of poetry that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work, he must reassess his genius. The wild card in the group is Gloria, a talented and mercurial theatre actress who toys with affections and who is all set to be admired by Saxberger.

Screenings
Friday 2 October, 10.30am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 2 October, 4.50pm
Saturday 3 October, 7.10pm
Sunday 4 October, 3.10pm
Tuesday 6 October, 4.30pm
Wednesday 7 October, 10.20am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Michael Sarnoski, 2026
Runtime: 120 mins
Language: English

The Deatsh of Robin Hood is a darker reimagining of the classic Robin Hood tale. Set of its time, the film sees the title character grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder; a battleworn loner who finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.

Screenings
Friday 2 October, 2.00pm
Saturday 3 October, 4.30pm
Sunday 4 October, 12.40pm
Tuesday 6 October, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 6 October, 7.00pm
Wednesday 7 October, 12.30pm

Dir. Andrei Tarkovski, 1983 [Re: 2026]
Runtime: 125 mins
Language: Italian, Russian, w/ English Subtitles

One of two 4K restorations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films from Curzon.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Screenings
Friday 9 October, 6.50pm

Runtime: 190mins

In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred – even love itself can be bought for the right price. A native of this hedonistic underworld, Manon is caught between twin desires when she falls in love with the student Des Grieux. Steadfast and devoted, he offers the possibility of an honourable life. Yet, the riches promised by the world of Parisian society remain tempting…

Manon’s inner turmoil and struggle for survival lie at the devastating heart of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s novel. In this signature work of The Royal Ballet, MacMillan’s nuanced understanding of human psychology makes for an unflinching look into the moral degradation of Manon’s Paris, while all its decadence and decay are brought to life through Jules Massenet’s score and Nicholas Georgiadis’s designs.

Screening
Sunday 1 November, 2.00pm

Runtime: 215mins
Language: French

Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the fiercely independent Carmen attracts the attention of Don José. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but his obsession knows no bounds. Damiano Michieletto’s searing production returns, casting scorching light on the lust, violence and destructive desire of Bizet’s ever-popular opera.

An all-star cast brings this white-hot drama to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas as the jealous and despairing Don José. Following his 2023 Royal Opera debut, Sesto Quatrini returns to conduct Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Screening
Sunday 15 November, 2.00pm

Runtime: 170mins

At a cosy Christmas party, young Clara meets the mysterious magician Drosselmeyer, who gives her a nutcracker doll. When the guests have departed and the house is asleep, Clara sneaks downstairs in search of the doll. Instead, she finds Drosselmeyer, who whisks her away on a journey into a whole world of enchantment: fantastical landscapes of flurried snow and glittering confection where toys come alive and the magic never stops.
Peter Wright’s production of this festive family favourite sparkles to the wondrous swell of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral score, alongside the glow and grandeur of Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs.

Screening
Sunday 13 December, 2.00pm

Dir: Barrie Kosky
Runtime: 350mins
Language: German

An earth in ruin. The twilight of the Gods.
Deception leads to treachery, then devastation, when Siegfried is tricked into betraying Brünnhilde. Learning the truth of her beloved’s innocence, Brünnhilde at last returns the ring to the Rhinemaidens, before ordering that Valhalla be swallowed in flames.

For the long-awaited finale of Wagner’s epic saga, director Barrie Kosky situates the rich apocalyptic drama in a contemporary world of dream-like turmoil. Antonio Pappano, Conductor Laureate of The Royal Opera, returns to take on the impassioned, otherworldly music – including Siegfried’s transporting Funeral March and Brünnhilde’s electrifying Immolation Scene. The brilliant cast is led by Elisabet Strid, Andreas Schager and Mika Kares, who together with the full forces of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus bring opera’s greatest journey to its shattering end.

Screening
Sunday 7 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Netia Jones
Runtime: 210 mins
Language: Italian

Spurred on by a bet, two young men hatch a plan to test the fidelity of their girlfriends. What follows is a slippery game of seduction and power, the four lovers plunging into a dizzying world of shifting reality, where truth becomes increasingly unstable.

Così fan tutte has lost none of its sting since it first scandalised audiences in 1790. In her Main Stage debut, Netia Jones, Associate Director of The Royal Opera, reimagines Mozart’s comedy of manners through a sharp contemporary lens, where 18th-century romantic trickery meets deeply satirical high-tech deceit. Taking on the roles of the lovers is an exciting young cast led by Louise Alder, Simone McIntosh, Mingjie Lei and Huw Montague Rendall, with Gerald Finley as their manipulative game-master Don Alfonso and Emily Pogorelc as Despina. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts, bringing out the exquisite melodies that underpin the provocative, and resolutely modern, themes at the heart of the opera.

Screening
Sunday 28 February, 2.00pm

Runtime: 170mins

At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows him down a rabbit hole, events become curiouser and curiouser…As Alice journeys through Wonderland, she encounters countless strange creatures. She’s swept off her feet by the charming Knave of Hearts, who’s on the run for stealing the tarts. Confusion piles upon confusion. Then Alice wakes with a start. Was it all a daydream?

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography. Joby Talbot’s score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century. Bob Crowley’s wildly imaginative, eye-popping designs draw on everything from puppetry to projections to make Wonderland wonderfully real. The result shows The Royal Ballet at its best, bringing together world-class dance with enchanting family entertainment and ingenious music and design.

Screening
Sunday 28 March, 2.00pm

Runtime: 205mins

Princess Odette is bound by a curse, turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. The spell can only be broken by a pledge of eternal love. When she meets Prince Siegfried, he is immediately enamoured by her fragile beauty and pledges to free her. But freedom is not promised for Odette as Von Rothbart conspires to thwart the lovers’ plans.
Liam Scarlett’s production for The Royal Ballet brings together Tchaikovsky’s towering score and John Macfarlane’s picturesque designs to create an enduring ballet spectacle of love, treachery and forgiveness.

Screening:
Sunday 25 April, 2.00pm

Runtime: 170mins

Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed lovers is transformed in Kenneth MacMillan’s mesmerising ballet. The flourishing of young love is just as present in Romeo and Juliet’s meeting on the balcony as in their final moments when they desperately cling to life in the tomb. Prokofiev’s evocative music sets the scene for stolen romantic moments and deadly feuds and sweeps the ballet towards its inevitable and tragic conclusion.

Screening
Sunday 30 May, 2.00pm