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What makes a CineMaster?

Years of experience, global renown, a career of landmark films and a public fascination with every move they make – and that’s just for starters.

Our ongoing season celebrates directors and key figures from filmmaking history, and gives you the opportunity to watch their work on the big screen.

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Barnard

CineMasters: Clio Barnard

July 2026

British director Clio Barnard, whose fifth feature I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning premiered to acclaim at Cannes earlier this year, has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British cinema.

Our latest CineMasters season looks back at Barnard’s previous four feature films, beginning with her experimental documentary The Arbor. Focusing on the life and work of playwright Andrea Dunbar, the film combines documentary and performance, with actors lip-syncing to recordings of Dunbar’s family and friends. It earned Barnard the Best New Documentary Filmmaker award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. We'll also be screening Rita, Sue and Bob Too, directed by Alan Clarke and adapted from Dunbar’s work.

Barnard’s social-realist films include The Selfish Giant, a beautiful and heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Bradford. She returned to the region for the tender cross-cultural romance Ali & Ava, while in Dark River—loosely adapted from Rose Tremain’s novel Trespass—she explores grief, trauma and family conflict through the story of a woman returning to her rural Yorkshire home following her father’s death.

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Jonze

CineMasters: Spike Jonze

August 2026

From his roots as a skate photographer and music video director, Spike Jonze has created visually and narratively surreal films that embed the human condition at their core. We'll revisit Jonze's collaborations with Academy award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the metafictional comedy dramas, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation.

Join us on Sunday 23 August for a screening of Her plus a panel discussion exploring the work and worlds of Spike Jonze, as well as an exploration of society's personal relationship with A.I. represented in the 2013 film by Scarlett Johansson as the operating system Samantha designed to meet Theodore's (Joaquin Phoenix) every need.

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Tarkovsky

CineMasters: Andrei Tarkovsky

September 2026

One of the cinema's most visionary, celebrated and influential filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky made just seven features before his tragically early death at the age of 54. Characterised by metaphysical and spiritual explorations of the human condition, each film is an artistic masterpiece of extraordinary visual beauty, and they all stand as enduring classics of world cinema. As his final two features are re-released in 4K remasters for the first time, we are taking the opportunity to screen all seven films in a CineMasters season. Our chronological programme charts the trajectory of Tarkovsky’s career from being a radical new voice of anti-war cinema, to a visionary subverting the sci-fi genre, and finally to a political exile from the Soviet Union grappling with questions of national identity and the threat of nuclear war.

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