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New films from Fri 21 August

See what's on, including Tony, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and more

Bring an appetite for drama as passion and tension flare in the kitchen, a haunted summer camp and a reclusive author’s mansion this week at DCA.

Follow a young Anthony Bourdain’s voyage of culinary discovery in the electrifying Tony, starring The Holdovers’ Dominic Sessa as Bourdain and Antonio Banderas as his mentor, and directed by the ingenious Matt Johnson (Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, BlackBerry).

Blood and lust await Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder in the critically adored sensation Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a daring and dreamy love-letter to the horror genre from the incredible Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). And Bill Nighy leads a stellar cast as a writer who summons his estranged family to his home for a shattering revelation in & Sons.

Our Sculpting in Time: Andrei Tarkovsky season continues with the transcendental Stalker and a 4K screening of Nostalghia, you can experience silent cinema classic Children of No Importance with a live score, we are teaming up with Take One Action! to screen TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing about the influential writer, filmmaker and community worker, Rip it Up delivers the thrilling Young Soul Rebels, a landmark in British Queer and Black cinema. Plus, we’ve added more chances to catch The Summer Bookand The Odyssey.

Published

Fri 21 Aug
Two young chefs look into a restaurant from the kitchen window
Tony
Two women bathed in an orange light
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
An elderly man reads from his own novel.
& Sons
Three men in a strange undulating room
Stalker
a black and white image of three children cowering in the corner
A still from Children of No Importance
Toni Cade Bambara  in a book store with two other women
TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Two young Black men face each other
Young Soul Rebels
A man in a roman helmet looks to the side.
The Odyssey
A girl peers out from a yellow tent
The Summer Book

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