Browse concerts from the Barbican Contemporary Music programme, including artists from all forms of music, experimental collaborations and new talent.

Hoping to rekindle his father's zest for life, Filip Hammar and his best friend Fredrik Wikingsson drive him to the French coastal town where they used to spend their holidays. As they journey through ...

Classical Pride, now in its third year, exists to spotlight queer composers of the past, present and future, giving a voice and a platform to this community that has been instrumental in the ...

Akira Kurosawa’s profound adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the historical backdrop of Japan’s 16th century Civil ...

In 1942 Berlin a shy Hilde falls in love with Hans. They spend a beautiful summer together where their love entwins with acts of protest. At nine months pregnant, Hilde is arrested by the Gestapo for ...

Pirate radio was a movement. A rebellious force that gave Black British music and underground sounds a platform when mainstream stations wouldn’t. It shaped UK culture then, and its influence ...

Filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures four years of a revolution’s rise and fall, revealing how poetry, art, and music became the ...

Almost three decades since the virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, in the ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. A group of survivors live on a ...

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Lotfi Achour's previous short films Father (Père) and Law of Lamb (La Laine sur le dos) both screened in the short film ...

This audio trail lives between the breath and the concrete—tracing presence, memory, and sound throughout the Barbican Estate. Each stop offers a reflection, a response, a letter from the site itself; ...