Slapstick Festival 2026

This specially curated programme of short comedies showcases Fazenda at her riotous best, including: Her Torpedoed Love (1917) and Heart and Flowers (1919).

Comedy legend Harry Hill joins Sean Foley for a hilarious cinematic trip to Harry’s very own Desert Island Stan & Ollie.

The ultimate Desert Island Stan & Ollie experience as Harry Hill introduces his favourite Laurel & Hardy feature of all time — newly restored and revealed only when the lights go down.

A witty and stylish comedy, Olive Thomas plays a small-town schoolgirl who ventures to an elite finishing school and discovers the excitement and complications of independence, flirtation and fun.

In this screening and discussion, film historian Pam Hutchinson and comedian, actor Lucy Porter celebrate some of these overlooked acts inspired by Laurel & Hardy.

Our Hospitality brings action movie thrills to a high-stakes comedy of manners, with extravagant period costumes, dramatic landscapes, and some classic Keaton railroad stunts leading to a truly breathtaking climax.

A rare opportunity to experience one of Yasujirō Ozu’s most captivating early silent comedies on the big screen.

Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, a wholesome all-American girl whose picture-perfect life implodes when her parents suspect she’s gay and ship her off to “True Directions,” a pastel-coloured conversion camp run by the hilariously zealous Cathy Moriarty, with RuPaul as the reformed ex-gay counsellor in high heels.

Join us for a special screening of Atoll K (Utopia), presented in a brand-new BFI restoration that returns Laurel & Hardy’s final feature to its original clarity and charm.

In a city of humanoid animals, a hustling theatre impresario's attempt to save his theatre with a singing competition becomes grander than he anticipates even as its finalists find that their lives will never be the same.

Slapstick 2026 concludes with a big-screen return for one of the sharpest and most prescient political comedies ever made.