• SEASON 2
    Growing Pains

    For TANKtv’s second season, twelve visionary directors return to that first great adventure, childhood – the joyful, dizzying precipice on which we slide and tumble, without yet knowing if its bumps and bruises will strengthen or scar. Childhood is knotted into the history of filmmaking. From cinema’s earliest days onwards, it has been mined relentlessly to produce some of the form’s most instinctive and innovative experiments. This steady preoccupation reveals an eye-opening variety of definitions and concerns. Filmmakers return to childhood because while it is universal, it is rarely identical. Whether delving deep into the turbulent experience of our earliest years or tracing their reverberations into adolescence and adulthood, these twelve films journey back to where it all begins.

  • The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut | 1959

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    The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut | 1959

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    Taking its title from an idiom for raising hell, The 400 Blows follows, often breathlessly, the antics, trials and tribulations of an unforgettable young protagonist: Antoine Dionel, played by a 13-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud. Persecuted by his school teacher and half-neglected by his parents, Antoine is everywhere deemed incorrigible. With restless resourcefulness (otherwise classified as petty criminality), he avoids school in order to smoke cigars, read Balzac and – best of all – go to the movies.

  • A Separation

    Ashgar Farhadi | 2011

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    A Separation

    Ashgar Farhadi | 2011

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    In Asghar Farhadi's film a middle-class Iranian family is being thrown into tumult. Nadar and Simin are evidently still in love, but they argue bitterly about the state of their country and are torn between their loyalty to their daughter, Termah, and Nadar's ageing father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's and must stay in Iran. Simin is prepared to divorce Nadar. Anything to get Termah away from her home country.

  • Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki | 2011

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    Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki | 2011

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    When a young migrant, Idrissa, is discovered in a shipping container in the port town of Le Havre, he is befriended by an ageing shoeshiner who decides to hide him from the authorities in his own home. Set against the refugee crisis, and Europe’s disinterested attitude towards it, Aki Kaurismäki’s deadpan film is a simple and uplifting account of the importance of human solidarity.

  • The White Ribbon

    Michael Haneke | 2009

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    The White Ribbon

    Michael Haneke | 2009

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    In a rural German village on the eve of the First World War, a doctor’s horse trips on a hidden wire as he returns from town. It’s the first in a string of disturbing and violent incidents which mysteriously beset the community, involving a large cast of characters whose sallow faces suggest years of repression and secrecy – none more so than the troublingly inscrutable children’s.

  • The Class

    Laurent Cantet | 2008

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    The Class

    Laurent Cantet | 2008

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    Set almost entirely in a classroom in an underprivileged high school in the outskirts of Paris, The Class revolves around an idealistic young teacher and his unruly students. But this is no Dead Poets Society. Avoiding all the hoary clichés, Laurent Cantet weaves a complex drama of authority, allegiance and betrayal. The Class returns us with bracing immediacy to that essential early laboratory of human drama: the classroom.

  • The Adjuster

    Atom Egoyan | 1991

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    The Adjuster

    Atom Egoyan | 1991

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    The Adjuster is a film constructed of disparate, gradually coalescing parts. Noah is an insurance claims adjuster who infiltrates the private lives of the victims of house fires, while Hera, his wife, makes secret recordings of the films she censors for her work. They live with their son and Hera’s sister in a show home on an unfinished housing development. This unconventional and isolated household emerges as central to a cryptic exploration of family and exile.

  • Zazie dans le Métro

    Louis Malle | 1960

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    Zazie dans le Métro

    Louis Malle | 1960

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    In Zazie dans le Métro, Louis Malle adapted a supposedly unfilmable novel into an inexhaustible stream of raucous cinematic invention. At the centre of it all is ten-year old Zazie, on a trip to visit her eccentric uncle in a 1950s Paris teeming with colour, seafood and car horns. Beneath the light-hearted irreverence are darker undercurrents of worldly knowledge, never far from the reality of childhood, which give depth to the film’s palpable sense of play.

  • The Wind Will Carry Us

    Abbas Kiarostami | 1999

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    The Wind Will Carry Us

    Abbas Kiarostami | 1999

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    A man arrives in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Welcomed as an esteemed guest, his exact identity and the reason for his visit remain unknown, ambiguously referred to as an ‘engineer’. With a young boy as his unofficial guide, he is drawn into the village’s patient rhythms and rituals while the spectre of death casts a long, ambiguous shadow over its sunlit days.

  • Ivan's Childhood

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1962

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    Ivan's Childhood

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1962

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    Ivan is a twelve-year-old scout for the Russian army, undertaking dangerous missions across the German border at the height of World War II. Haunted by visions of his idyllic life before the war, he is forced to  immerse himself in violence and find unlikely friends in soldiers. Displaying stark and sweeping expressionism, Tarkovsky tells his troubling story with unflinching clarity and deep compassion.

  • Our Little Sister

    Hirokazu Koreeda | 2015

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    Our Little Sister

    Hirokazu Koreeda | 2015

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    Our Little Sister is a film about how families are made and remade. Three sisters living together in an old house in Kamakura, Japan, travel to the funeral of their estranged father. There they meet Suzu, the half-sister they never knew about. Suzu is whisked back to Kamakura and through her eyes, director Hirokazu Kore-eda portrays the motions of everyday life as a miraculous discovery.

  • We Need To Talk About Kevin

    Lynne Ramsay | 2011

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    We Need To Talk About Kevin

    Lynne Ramsay | 2011

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    We Need to Talk About Kevin is a nightmarish modern parable of the vicissitudes of childhood and parenthood both. Eva (Tilda Swinton), once a successful and carefree travel writer, lives a solitary life in suburban America, haunted by the atrocious crimes committed by her eponymous son. Lynne Ramsay’s gripping, somnambulant film pursues Eva’s attempts to piece together her fragmented memories of Kevin’s childhood and find sense in the face of devastation.

  • In Bloom

    Nana Ekvtimishvili | 2013

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    In Bloom

    Nana Ekvtimishvili | 2013

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    In Bloom is a story of that most passionate of romances: the teenage friendship. Eka and Natia are two best friends navigating the capricious terrain of early adolescence as their country, Georgia, takes its own first, shaky steps into its restored independence. Against the background of civil war, the girls contend with the various pressures of tradition, family life and their own tempestuous relationship in this caustic reflection on the volatility of adolescence.

SEASON 11
Forbidden Colour

These kaleidoscopic films by visionaries Bergman, Bidgood, Bakari, Greenaway, Herzog, Pasolini, Ozu, Jarman and Rosso represent the most enchanting, troubling and shocking uses of colour in cinematic history.

SEASON 10
Lives of the Saints

There can be no sainthood without struggle, and for Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Margaret Tait, Carl Th. Dreyer, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Christopher Newby, Liv Ullman, Toshio Matsumoto, Timothy Neat, Jamil Dehlavi and Edward Bennett, the divine vision is in the details.

SEASON 9
Conception

TANK’s ninth season, featuring films by John Cassavetes, Jean Cocteau, Terence Davies, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Derek Jarman, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Mike Leigh, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen and Yasujiro Ozu, show that between the idea and the story there is a universe of possibility.

SEASON 8
Escape

With films by Kryzsztof Kieślowski, Deniz Gamze Egüven, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Ozon, Cristian Mungiu, Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jean Vigo, Michael Haneke and Louis Malle – offering stories that cross borders, identities and contexts – this season looks at escape anew, not as resignation from our environment, but as re-engagement with it.

SEASON 7
Back to Earth

TANK presents ten films selected by the curators at Serpentine Galleries, as part of their multi-year project Back to Earth. Showing films by Agnès Varda, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gianfranco Rosi, Charlie Chaplin, Luc Jacquet, Bela Tarr, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier and Babak Jalali.

SEASON 6
Ritual

This season, we present 10 films spanning six decades by directors who train their lens on this ancient human practice, who, in doing so, capture the often unsaid behaviours and gestures that make us us. Showing films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew Haigh, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Corneliu Porumboiu, Aki Kaurismäki and Atom Egoyan.

SEASON 5
Metamorphosis

We are pleased to be showing you 10 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Béla Tarr, Paweł Pawlikowski, Gabriel Axel, Robert Bresson, Olivier Assayas and Atom Egoyan.

SEASON 4
On Versimilitude

This season, we are pleased to be showing 12 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Roy Andersson, Andrea Arnold, Hal Hartley, Denis Villeneuve, Peter Strickland, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mia Hansen-Løve. Through rich storytelling and technical nuance, these directors bring to light cinema's raw power to move and to persuade, and perhaps, to flicker more truthfully than life itself.

SEASON 3
Sculpting in Time

We look at films spanning five decades that approach time in profound ways, featuring Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Yorgos Lanthimos, Roy Andersson and more. From the hyper-real to the arcane, each provides its own portal into what Tarkovsky described as the “inner, moral qualities essentially inherent in time itself”.

SEASON 1
Beyond Varda

With director Agnès Varda’s death in 2019, the film world lost a leading (and too-often overlooked) member of the Nouvelle Vague, a cinematic innovator and a pioneering voice. This season of TANKtv marks that legacy with 10 films by female directors for whom Varda laid a cinematic foundation.