LRB Screen continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers: films in which a fresh encounter makes the city unfamiliar and mysterious again.

For the last screening of this year – though London Reviewed will continue at the Garden Cinema in 2026 – we turn to the most recent film of the series so far: Here for Life, the Artangel-commissioned and produced feature from artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson, founder of Cardboard Citizens theatre company. In a world and a city defined by finance and loss, ten Londoners make their wild and wayward way, arguing for their own terms of definition as they go. On reclaimed land between two train tracks, they find themselves on the right side of history, making their own wagers with the present tense and future hopes: with who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed.

Following its world premiere and special mention at Locarno Film Festival, Kieron Corless, writing in Sight and Sound, declared it ‘a film of great compassion and political and aesthetic ambition, in which the idea of a collective is prioritised for a change, but without sacrificing or downplaying the individual voices and idiosyncrasies that it comprises.’

Introducing the film, and discussing it afterwards with regular host Gareth Evans, will be the film’s co-director Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

Cast:
Jo Galbraith, Jake Goode, Richard Honeyghan, Kamby Kamara, Errol McGlashan, Patrick Onione, Ben Smithies, Mwiinga Twyman, Jono Whitty, Sasha Winslow