https://www.watermans.org.uk/whats-on/

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: 

One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, along with Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warinner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II.

Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky (played by Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more.  

Poor Things (15) - Fri 19 -Thu 25 January, (excl. Mon and Tue). See website for times.

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).

Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.

Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation. 

Special Event Cinema:

KINO! - Sweat (15) - Sun 21 January, Film talk at 1pm; Film Screening at 2.30pm

Join Michael Brooke to discuss foreign and Polish filmmakers who have made films abroad like Sweat director Magnus von Horn and The Peasants co-director Hugh Welchman.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of Sweat that follows the life of a fitness guru and influnecer, Sylwia. All is going well until she shares her loneliness just before an important TV appearance.

Winner of eight 2020 Polish Film Festival Awards including  Best Director - Magnus von Horn, Best Actress in a Feature Film - Magdalena Kolesnik, Best Cinematography in a Feature Film - Michel Dymek. 

Royal Opera House Live – Rusalka (12A) -  Wed 24 January, 6.45pm - This production of Dvořák's opera was filmed live in 2022 FROM THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 

 Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back. 

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák's lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity's attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) in the title role. 

NT Live – Dear England (15) - Thur 25 January, 7pm 

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. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Rupert Goold (Judy) directs this spectacular new play. 

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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