The Arzner - London's LGBTQ+ Cinema & Bar

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Scary Movie

Thu 11 Jun to Thu 18 Jun

Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer's crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe.

Erupcja

Fri 12 Jun to Tue 30 Jun

While on vacation in Poland, Bethany (Charli XCX) breaks away from a romantic itinerary planned by her doting boyfriend, Rob, fearing that a marriage proposal is imminent. Reuniting instead with an old friend, Nel, the two women rekindle a uniquely combustible chemistry over the course of a few days in a chaste but burning trust predicated on sapphic synchronicity and a mutual penchant for poetry.

Enzo

Fri 12 Jun to Thu 18 Jun

Enzo, 16, defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship, a path far removed from the prestigious life they had envisioned for him. In their chic villa in the sun-drenched South of France, tensions simmer as relentless questions and pressures weigh on Enzo's future and dreams. On the construction sites, however, Vlad, a charismatic Ukrainian colleague, shakes up En...

Madfabulous

Fri 12 Jun to Tue 23 Jun

In the late 19th century, Henry Cyril Paget is the flamboyant fifth Marquess of Anglesey who smashed society's notions of class, gender and decorum, squandering a multimillion fortune before his heartbreaking untimely death.

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Extended Intro

Fri 12 Jun

Celebrate Pride Month with this newly restored piece of queer cinema history! This screening will begin with a pre - recorded extended introduction from the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener. The work of artist and photographer James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus is a breathtaking and outrageous erotic visual poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful male sex - w...

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Extended Intro

Dog-Friendly: Legendary Children (All of Them Queer) + Q&A

Sat 13 Jun

To coincide with the Dog Pride event in Bermondsey Square, we are hosting a dog-friendly screening of the documentary Legendary Children followed by a Q&A with director, Rob Falconer, and some of the cast. Titled after Holly Johnson's iconic anthem, Legendary Children (All Of Them Queer) follows many of the original pioneers of the 1972 and first European Pride March during events over the summer...

Dog-Friendly: Legendary Children (All of Them Queer) + Q&A

Exclusive Preview: She's the He! + Director Q&A

Sat 13 Jun

This is an exclusive preview courtesy of the team behind She's the He for Pride Month at The Arzner. This screening will be followed by a live-streamed Q&A with writer & director Siobhan McCarthy. Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumours. It's all a joke until Ethan realises: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing fri...

Exclusive Preview: She's the He! + Director Q&A

Fundraiser Q&A: Madfabulous

Sun 14 Jun

All ticket profits from this event will be donated to Southwark Pride. This screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with writer Lisa Baker, producer Paul Baker & costume designer Francisco Rodriguez-Weil. We will also have some of the costumes from the film for the Q&A. When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890s North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair...

10s Across the Borders: Q&A + The Arzner Ball

Sun 14 Jun

This screening and event is in partnership with Get Busy. We will be screening the brand new documentary 10s Across the Borders followed by a Q&A with the director Chan Sze-Wei. After this screening, we are then clearing out our bar and hosting the very first The Arzner Ball in collaboration Get Busy. There are two ticket options: Ball1) A ticket for just the film + Q&A Ball 2) A ticket for th...

10s Across the Borders: Q&A + The Arzner Ball

Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide + Panel Discussion

Mon 15 Jun

There are five ticket/donation options to choose from. Please donate what you feel comfortable paying. All of the ticket money will be donated to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestine). Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) and The Arzner presents No Pride in Genocide , a global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The fourth edition of...

Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide + Panel Discussion

Kokomo City + Director Q&A

Tue 16 Jun

This screening will be followed by a live-streamed Q&A with director D. Smith. Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

Cactus Pears + Director Q&A

Wed 17 Jun

This screening will begin with the short film Two Black Boys in Paradise. The screening will then be followed by an in-person Q&A with director Rohan Kanawade. Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried.

Dress-Up Preview: Lesbian Space Princess

Thu 18 Jun

Dress-up is encouraged but not mandatory. There will be a prize for best-dressed. We will be serving themed cocktails, such as Clitopolis Sunrise and Straight White Malien Slime. A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from evil incel aliens.

Dress-Up Preview: Lesbian Space Princess

Stand-Up with Pride: LGBTQ+ Comedy

Thu 18 Jun

The Arzner Presents: Stand-Up with Pride Stand-Up with Pride is a stand-up comedy night in our cinema with hilarious LGBTQ+ comedians to commemorate Pride Month. This event will be hosted by movie-star Norma Desperate. Our line-up includes: Alex Mitchell (Britain's Got Talent, Queers On Podcast & Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Finalist) Aaron Simmonds (Disabled Coconut, The ...

Lesbian Space Princess

Fri 19 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from evil incel aliens.

Cactus Pears

Fri 19 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.

Madonna: The Confessions Tour Party

Fri 19 Jun

To celebrate Pride Month and Confessions Tour 20th anniversary, we are screening the official Confessions Tour concert film! This is a Madonna PARTY ; not just a screening! Ticket holders are welcome to sing, dance and go wild for the Queen of Pop! There will be Madonna-themed cocktails & Madonna tunes in the bar. Filmed in its entirety at London's Wembley Arena during her worldwide sold-out 25-c...

Sapphic Space

Sat 20 Jun

To celebrate Pride Month and the release of Lesbian Space Princess, we have a Lesbian Alien double bill. We will be screening: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (76 mins) The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Lesbian Space ...

Father's Day: Finding Nemo

Sun 21 Jun

This screening is targeted at gay dads & their children for Father's Day; however, everyone is welcome to attend. The aim of this screening is for dads (and other parents & guardians) to socialise & meet-and-greet. After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Spectra: Pride Month

Sun 21 Jun

Spectra is a monthly screening program that celebrates bold storytelling from emerging and independent filmmakers. This month's them is Pride. If you have a film you'd like to share with us for consideration, please submit it via the form on our website.

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Scary Movie

Thu 11 Jun to Thu 18 Jun

Erupcja

Fri 12 Jun to Tue 30 Jun

Enzo

Fri 12 Jun to Thu 18 Jun

Madfabulous

Fri 12 Jun to Tue 23 Jun

Pink Narcissus (4K Restoration) + Extended Intro

Fri 12 Jun

Dog-Friendly: Legendary Children (All of Them Queer) + Q&A

Sat 13 Jun

Exclusive Preview: She's the He! + Director Q&A

Sat 13 Jun

Fundraiser Q&A: Madfabulous

Sun 14 Jun

10s Across the Borders: Q&A + The Arzner Ball

Sun 14 Jun

Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide + Panel Discussion

Mon 15 Jun

Kokomo City + Director Q&A

Tue 16 Jun

Cactus Pears + Director Q&A

Wed 17 Jun

Dress-Up Preview: Lesbian Space Princess

Thu 18 Jun

Stand-Up with Pride: LGBTQ+ Comedy

Thu 18 Jun

Lesbian Space Princess

Fri 19 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

Cactus Pears

Fri 19 Jun to Thu 2 Jul

Madonna: The Confessions Tour Party

Fri 19 Jun

Sapphic Space

Sat 20 Jun

Father's Day: Finding Nemo

Sun 21 Jun

Spectra: Pride Month

Sun 21 Jun