Flaminia Graziadei brought A Year in London, her Anglo-Italian love story set in the city’s fashion world, to the UK’s only LGBTQ+ cinema for its UK premiere.
Flaminia Graziadei’s A Year in London, a love story set in the city’s fashion trade, had its UK premiere at The Arzner in Bermondsey on Friday 17 July 2026. The screening closed with a conversation with the director.
Graziadei is Roman by origin and has said that London is the city that shaped her as a filmmaker. A Year in London is her second feature, written with Laura Swain.
Her own LonRom Film Production made it with Rain Dogs and Orange Media. Emera Film released it in Italy on 14 April 2026.
Nina Pons plays Olivia, an Italian designer, and Melanie Liburd plays Nina Clarke, the mentor she turns to. After the two women survive a robbery together, their working bond becomes an unspoken romance. Graziadei has described the film’s long silences as a way of inviting the audience in.
Liburd grew up in Hertfordshire and took a degree in fashion design before training as an actor. She is known for This Is Us and Power Book II: Ghost.
The Arzner, on Bermondsey Square, is the UK’s only LGBTQ+ cinema. It held a second evening screening that weekend with questions for the director.