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Watermans is West London's arts centre and is open Wednesday to Sunday. See great films, live shows and exhibitions and discuss it all at the Guru, its unique bar and restaurant serving the best in drink, snacks and Indian dishes. In the cinema, take advantage of Wild Wednesdays – all cinema tickets £7 – all day on Wednesdays.   

Catch the new releases including: 

The Zone of Interest (12A) - Fri 23 – Thu 29 February (excl. Mon and Tues). See website for times 

From the director of Sexy Beast and Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer directs the compellingly unsettling film that recently won the BAFTA awards for Outstanding British Film, Best Film Not in an English Language and Best Sound.

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. 

The Promised Land (15) - Fri 23 – Thu 29 February (excl. Mon and Tues). See website for times 

From BAFTA nominated writer and director, Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), comes a powerful Nordic epic starring Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Another Round).

In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the uninhabitable Danish heath in the name of the King.  

The Boys In The Boat (12A) - Wed 28 & Thu 29 February. See website for times.

Directed by George Clooney, this is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.

Based on the No.1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown.

Special Event Cinema:

Dear England (15) - National Theatre Encore - Saturday 24 February 2024, 2pm. 191 minutes (including one interval)

Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game.

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.

Polish Film Talk - KINO! - The Peasants (15) - Sunday 25 February, Film talk at 1pm; Film Screening at 2.30pm (no interval) 

Michael Brooke discusses other adaptations of great 19th/early 20th-century Polish literature, involving such writers as Adam Mickiewicz, Władysław Reymont and many more.

In this latest film by DH Welchman and Hugh Welchman, a team of animators and painters work by hand to adapt a Nobel prize winning novel (Chlopi, by Wladyslaw Reymont) about an early 20th century Polish peasant woman who creates havoc by marrying an older rich man.

Children's Theatre:

Belongings (7 – 11 years) - Sunday 25 February, 3pm - Tangled Feet and Rowan Tree

We are all trying to work out our story? Who are we? Sometimes you have to find the courage to be you. Cleo arrives into a new home, unsure of what the future holds.

Developed through working creatively with young people in care, this "inspiring, engaging, beautifully evocative production” (Everything Theatre) explores a fundamental need we all share - the need to belong.

In the gallery see the latest new media exhibition:

Tenderly Towards the Tipping Point - Until Sun 14 Jan (Excl. Mon & Tues), FREE - Kaushal Sapre, Mohit Shelare, Sonam Chaturvedi, Aasma Tulika, Bazik Thlana.

How can an exhibition occupy time? Watermans presents a group of leading contemporary artists from India with a radical approach to the use of a wide variety of media in their art.

Tenderly Towards the Tipping Point brings together a multitude of artistic responses to time and the imposition of time.

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