An intimate portrait Jamaican-born reggae producer, businessman, father, son, and pillar of the Brixton community, Blacker Dread. Plus Q&A with director Molly Dineen, and part of the South Norwood Community Festival.
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CHI M’HA VISTO + Q&A
After the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Alessandro Pondi followed by nibbles and drinks.
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YOUNG ONES + TALK
Science Fiction Theatre presents: In a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource, the land has withered into something wretched, and the hardened survivors scrape and struggle.
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THE WEDDING BANQUET + DISCUSSION
Comedy clash between eastern and western cultures. Followed by Club Member’s critical appreciation to prompt audience comments and discussion.
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STRICTLY BALLROOM + DISCUSSION
The ballroom dancing contest film that spawned television series and now a musical; followed by Club Member’s critical appreciation to prompt audience comments and discussion.
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THE LONG GAZE + Q&A
Jaap Pieters, the “eye of Amsterdam”, began shooting films in Super8 in 1985. Much of his work concentrates on urban subjects – trams, crossroads, city dwellers and drifters – to which Pieters directs his voyeuristic gaze to capture their everyday existence.
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THE ILLUSIONIST aka L’illusionniste + DISCUSSION
Film showing of this Jacques Tati inspired moving and beautiful animation followed by Club Member’s critical appreciation to prompt audience comments and discussion.
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THE DARKEST HOUR + TALK: WINSTON CHURCHILL, FRANCE AND EUROPE
Historians Richard Toye and Christian Destremau examine Winston Churchill’s relationship to France and Europe, and the different narratives that have been built since. Then there’s Gary Oldman’s Academy Award winning performance as Winston Churchill.
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SCREAM FOR ME SARAJEVO + RECORDED Q&A
SCREAM FOR ME SARAJEVO + RECORDED Q&A at Stratford Picturehouse (17 APR 20:15 – other Picturehouses available): Sarajevo in 1994 was a city under siege. Mortars and grenades rained down on the city, killing indiscriminately every day. Amongst the madness, would it be possible to persuade a global rock star to come and play a show […]
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SOSHANA: EVERYWHERE ALONE + INTRO
In 1938 at the age of 11, the painter Soshana fled her native Vienna together with her family to escape National Socialism. They travelled first to Switzerland and then onto London and the US. The trauma of the war and her restless childhood had an immense impact on her life and artistic output.
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