M+ Cinema winter edition

For the 2025 Winter Edition, M+ Cinema presents Tilda Swinton: Between Worlds, spotlighting five of the actress’s career-defining performances from the past four decades. The featured films include Caprice (1986) by Joanna Hogg, Caravaggio (1986) by Derek Jarman, Orlando (1992) by Sally Potter, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) by Jim Jarmusch, and The End (2024) by Joshua Oppenheimer—each as surprising and daring as the last.

From cinema classics to popular musical films, Indian cinema has contributed much to global visual culture. Colours of Life: A Celebration of Indian Cinema presents Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed new film All We Imagine as Light (2024)—the first Indian film selected for the Cannes main competition in thirty years and winner of the 2024 Grand Prix. S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (2022), the Oscar-winning cultural juggernaut, will grace the big screen in M+’s Grand Stair. The programme also features Pather Panchali (1955) by Satyajit Ray and Salaam Bombay! (1988) by Mira Nair, two timeless masterpieces that capture beautiful and harrowing human experiences through the eyes of a child.

Avant-Garde Now is a new series that explores the latest in moving image practices. This edition, Sensing Time, inaugurates a year-long investigation of time as both a subject of and a medium for artistic expression. Four invited artists—Takashi Makino, Raqs Media Collective, Morgan Wong, and Wu Tzuan—will present their research and artistic experiments on the topic of time through a mix of analogue and digital screenings, performances, and programmes.

Stair in the Dark presents Dissonant Pleasures, a monthly series spotlighting works hidden in the shadows of the mainstream that have nevertheless made a lasting impact on cinema. This edition spotlights luminaries of Japanese animation. Kawajiri Yoshiaki’s masterpiece Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) is an enthralling human-vampire tragedy made in the director’s iconic bloody style. At once bedazzling and heart-wrenching, Eiichi Yamamoto’s erotic fever dream Belladonna of Sadness (1973) re-emerges after decades of obscurity to captivate anime aficionados. Masaaki Yuasa continues to confuse and amaze with Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017), a surrealist comedy that turns a night in Kyoto into kaleidoscopic mayhem.