Home to some familiar and memorable moments, and others rare and unseen for decades, BFI Replay is an online archive vividly capturing stories from over 60 years of UK film, television and video. Join us to discover more as we explore videos of how we used to live and work, sparking shared discussion and memories from the past. Hosted by BFI staff, this is a wonderful introduction to Replay, which is now available for you to watch within Leeds Libraries.

Screened in collaboration with Otley Film Society

An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Director: Robert Wise

Writers: Edmund H. North & Harry Bates

Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal & Hugh Marlowe

Rating: G

Run Time: 1hr 32

When Tim becomes a courier for the app Wallaby, he reckons he can turn his life around: get fit, earn some money, and even get laid. He’s not accounted for his own haplessness, an antique teapot collection, and a sinister conspiracy.

Secrets of a Wallaby Boy is a modern-day queer sex comedy, starring Brandon McCaffrey and Billie Hindle alongside Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who), Mark Benton (Anna and the Apocalypse) and Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2 & 3).

Films at Heart celebrate the extensive and marvellous career of DAME MAGGIE SMITH

Film – Private Function and food – provided by the Heart Assembly Bar and Kitchen

A PRIVATE FUNCTION:

Dir. Malcolm Mowbray/1 hr 32 mins/Cert. 15/1984

Cultural expression provides the foundation stone for the endurance of a Palestinian identity, enabling it to remain strong despite 75 years of expulsion, occupation, and destruction.

The closing event of our tenth anniversary programme is less a celebration, more a testament to the powerful and enduring voices of Palestinian film-makers, musicians and artists.

In these darkest of times for Palestinians, art and culture remain uplifting rays of light. They are sources of inspiration, restoration and determination. They defy the destruction of a people.

Foragers is a chase film depicting the Israeli Nature Patrol pursuing elderly Palestinians who gather plants classified as protected species, particularly the artichoke-like tumble thistle, 'akkoub, also known as "green gold" and Zaatar. In this documentary infused with fiction, Jumana Manna follows the lives of these elders as they practice the once-accepted cultural tradition of foraging. 

This event will also feature a recorded interview with film-maker Jumana Manna.
France 2022, 64 mins

This film is curated by souqsounds.

The Bride and the Dowry is one of the first documented testimonies from Palestinian civilians and Mayors, and shows the daily struggles of surviving under the constant threat of settler violence.  

The examples in the film feel very contemporary and resonate with what we continue to see on our television screens from the West Bank.

The director, Ibrahim Abu Nab, born in Jerusalem in 1931, was a renowned Palestinian editor, journalist, filmmaker, and poet. In 1965 he established the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Media Department.

We were amazed and inspired to learn that not one, but two Film Festivals have taken place in the displacement camps of southern Gaza this year.

We bring you a selection of the best films screened at both festivals: Creators Despite Displacement - the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Film Festival marking its 7th year – and Al-Aouda Festival, in its 8th year.

With equipment frequently destroyed, many of the poignant films depicting perspectives and feelings on the current reality were shot on phones. Red carpets were rolled out among the tents and rubble.

How do Palestinians express their identity and resistance through their culture?