Experiments in Film: La force diagonale – Saturday 24 January 2026 at 14:00, Barbican Cinema 3, London

Join us for a compelling journey through history, memory and creative resilience with La force diagonale (The Diagonal Force), a feature-length experimental film by Annik Leroy and Julie Morel that brings together intimate portraits from across Europe. Filmed in Sarajevo, Görlitz and Belgium, the work collects powerful testimony—from a former tram driver recounting life during the siege of Sarajevo to personal stories of postwar discrimination and the search for belonging—turning moments of trauma into expressions of human creativity and renewal. Inspired by the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the film meditates on our capacity to bring something new into a world shaped by historical wounds and transformations, culminating in a striking movement sequence featuring the dancer Claire Vivianne Sobottke with readings by Claudia von Alemann and others.

Full details: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/experiments-in-film-la-force-diagonal-12-screentalk