An action-documentary about the evolution of stunt women, their struggles on screen to perform at the highest level, and their fight off-screen to be treated fairly and equally. The movie takes us behind-the-scenes and introduces us to the female stunt performers who drive the action and thrills of Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster movies from the silent age of cinema to present day.
Set in past and present South Africa, Milisuthando is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary on love and what it means to become human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando herself – who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.
Hoolan Ensemble is a recently formed collective of musicians and composers dedicated to performing innovative and unusual contemporary music, and to collaborating with other art forms. Join them for an electrifying evening of live music and film inspired by the forgotten artistic achievements of women in early cinema.
This 80s classic adventure starts with a bullied and lonely boy reading a book in a strange shop - before he finds that he's becoming part of the story, and can even begin to control some of what happens in it.
Meanwhile, in the book, another boy is setting off on a series of dangerous tasks in a world full of strange and wonderful creatures - including a fluffy dragon, a giant racing snail and a huge talking wolf...
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Coraline Jones is a girl of 11 who is feisty and adventurous beyond her years. With her parents wrapped up in work, she takes off to explore her new home and secret door to seemingly nowhere may lead to more than it seems.
On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life–only much better. But when this wondrously off–kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her counterfeit parents try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to save her family and get back home.
The film festival showcases work from filmmakers who want to make a difference by telling the stories of seldom heard communities and / or social issues such as poverty, migration, xenophobia, inequality, environment, mental health and /or war.
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Investigate how Black women carved out their own place in the action hero film genre.
Black women have a unique representative journey in film. Travelling from the servitude of 1915’s The Birth Of A Nation (Dir. D.W. Griffiths), through to the ‘bad mamma’ icons of the Blaxploitation genre, landing on today’s images that fulfil at least some of the archetypes of the action, superhero characteristics.
For Halloween, the increasingly revered horror masterpiece Messiah of Evil (1973). This contains some of the most potent macabre imagery and atmosphere of the 70s, which will always be my favourite decade for the genre.
This weekend (Friday 4th to Sunday 6th October), we're hosting three screenings to celebrate the life and work of Dame Maggie Smith.
At 8:00pm on Friday (4th October), we will be showing The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, which won Smith her first Oscar in 1970.
At 1:40pm on Saturday (5th October), we have a matinee screening of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, which introduced Smith to a whole new generation of film lovers.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Academy Award winning writer, director Andrea Arnold’s third feature
Dir Andrea Arnold/2hrs 9mins/Certificate 15/2011
Starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine Earnshaw and James Howson as Heathcliff.
A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer s daughter.
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