Farha is a dramatised historical account of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who lives through the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) that led to the displacement of 750,000 Palestinian citizens and deaths of 15,000 more.

The film centres on Farha’s experiences when she is locked in a storage room by her father, as Israeli soldiers attack her village. It is a powerful and provocative coming-of-age journey of a young girl whose innocence is destroyed by the violence she witnesses

(Arabic, English, Hebrew, English subtitles)

We invite you to a family friendly evening of kite making and film watching.

Set in Gaza in 2010, this uplifting film is a celebration of the creativity of Palestinian youth, in the most desolate of circumstances, as young people try to break the Guinness Record for kite flying.

(English, Arabic, English subtitles)

Roger Hill, Nitin Sawhney, Israel, Palestine, USA 2013, 1hr 11mins

Presented with St Lukes Cares.

Doors open 5:30
Kite Making 5:30
Refreshments 6:30
Film screening 7:30

A stormy night, a creaking old mansion, and a killer on the loose —Universal Pictures’ 1927 horror-comedy is the perfect Halloween treat.

The Film:

Twenty years after the death of millionaire Cyrus West, his relatives are called together in his decaying mansion on the Hudson River to hear the reading of the will. They discover that West has left everything to his niece Annabelle (Laura La Plante) - on the condition that she is judged to be legally sane.

In a dystopian future, ex-con Jensen Ames is coerced into a deadly competition—the ultimate prison car race. As brutal rivals clash on the asphalt, survival turns into a high-octane spectacle of betrayal and bloodshed, where only the ruthless prevail.

With a colourful introduction from Lee Bentham of What the Film Club, this screening is a nod to the boundary pushing multi-genre form of car chases within action and science fiction.

In Rob Cohen’s The Fast and the Furious, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), a Los Angeles street racer, attracts the suspicion of the LAPD as the driver for a string of high-speed hijackings. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), an LAPD officer, infiltrates Toretto's racing crew to bring it down. But finds himself enamoured with the street racing world and in love with Toretto's sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster). As the investigation moves on, and a rival racing crew rises up, O'Conner must decide where his loyalties lie. With his new friends or the LAPD.

Before it evolved into a series of outrageous spy capers, Fast & Furious actually began life as something very different. The first films in the franchise were mid-budget crime pictures set within the world of underground street racing, and they featured a cast of relative unknowns. This Film School Day will be a crash course in the unusual origins of Fast & Furious.

As the city of Chengdu changes, the future of Funky Town, a beloved queer-friendly techno club, is unclear. For a vibrant group of DJs, drag performers, artists, lovers, ravers, and skaters, the club is a sanctuary for underground partying and allows them to thrive after the sun sets.

But with construction cranes looming and a metro station encroaches, the partygoers are forced to face what brought them to the club in the first place, and make the most of their remaining time there.

Screening as part of the Queer East touring Film Festival.

In director Tsai Ming-Liang’s subversive family drama, Hsiao-Kang gets roped into participating in a film shoot, in which he plays a dead body floating in the Tamsui River in Taipei. But the polluted water provokes a health crisis, as Hsiao-Kang is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain.

Following two young people, Utamaro and Giiko, on a doomed summer road trip through Japan, Isao Fujisawa’s poetic, surreal work reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.