Somerset House films screenings 2018: Inception, Labyrinth, Call Me By Your Name and Blue Velvet announced

(Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House © James Bryant Photography)

The first four films to be screened this summer at Somerset House, London's occasional open-air cinema, have been revealed and it's a strong line-up.

All films this year will take the 'theme of dreams, focusing on fantasies, reveries, nightmares and nocturnes.'

Inception is first up, Christopher Nolan's mind-bending epic, followed by beloved Bowie musical adventure Labyrinth, last year's delicate and dream-like Call Me By Your Name and David Lynch's 80s cult classic Blue Velvet.

Across fourteen summer screenings, 2,000 films fans will settle down with picnic boxes in the courtyard of the Neoclassical building, in front of a state-of-the-art outdoor screen with digitally projected surround sound.

“Films and the subconscious have always had an uncanny affinity with one another, and to lose yourself within a film is to enter a type of dream state," said David Cox, Film4 Summer Screen programmer.

"This year we’re giving our audience the chance to dream together for a fortnight in an environment that encourages just this sort of shared transport, with films that offer flights of fantasy and inner journeys of discovery, explore worlds where things aren’t quite what they seem and – perhaps most importantly - celebrate inspiration, hope and desire.”

Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House takes places from 9 to 22 August. Tickets will be available from May, when full festival line-up details will be announced.