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Chris Gollon painting
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Cinema

Doc'n Roll Film Festival: Chris Gollon: Life in Paint...

Chris Gollon's pioneering use of music, lyrics from Bob Dylan, and collaborations with musicians Thurston Moore, Yi Yao and Eleanor McEvoy, helped him keep painting alive.

Two women and a man laugh whilst standing in front of a shop front.
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Cinema

Cinema Restored: Der Kampf um den heiligen Baum

Traditional African beliefs conflict with missionary domination in a rural Kenyan village in Wanjiru Kinyanjui's powerful drama, centring around a supernatural tree. 

Two women hold hands whilst riding on bicycles.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: The Circus Tent

A visually stunning and poetic exploration of the inner lives of a travelling circus trope in which old age, loneliness and regret becomes magnified through Govindan Aravindan’s salient observation.

Jackie stands in profile on stage with a microphone on a stand
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Cinema

Doc'n Roll Film Festival: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane...

A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal.

A group of men in suits run forward.
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Cinema

Experiments in Film: Efforts of Nature VI

This selection of old and new experimental films and spoken word looks at the human body as a place of pleasure, illness, and as a site for transcendental experiences.

Creative Learning image in music hall
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Cinema

Sustainable Screen Careers in Partnership with BAFTA

A morning of advice from experts about making the film and TV industry more sustainable, for students.

A woman in traditional Indian dress stands by a window.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: Duvidha

A ghost falls in love with a new bride in this virtuoso blend of folklore and avant-garde cinema, anchored in an evocative feminist perspective. 

Women stand infront of a protest banner marching down the street.
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Art & design Cinema

Rewriting the Rules: India Cabaret + Maid Servant + Intro

A double bill of documentaries by women and focussing on women’s rights and perspectives.

A pair of hands touch a piece of fabric
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Cinema

LPFF Opening Night: A Grain of Sand حبة رمل (performance)

One-woman show based on real events in Gaza. Performed by Sarah Agha, written and directed by Elias Matar, commissioned by London Palestine Film Festival. 

Two people play in the street with a cart
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Cinema

LPFF: To a Land Unknown + ScreenTalk 

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge. 

A person overlooks a city
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Cinema

LPFF: Dreams and Ghosts (shorts programme) (#)

In this selection of films, characters face the visible versus the invisible. In a world where the past is always present, a yearning for a better future leads the way.

Two men stand facing each other in the desert
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Cinema

LPFF: No Other Land + ScreenTalk 

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, filmed his West Bank community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation; now an Israeli journalist wants to join his fight.

A black and white image of a man and a woman sitting by a log cabin with a large dog.
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Cinema

Silent Film & Live Music: By The Law

Thought your flat was small during lockdown? How about waiting out a Canadian winter in a primitive wooden cabin with just your husband, and a murderer, for company.  

Edward Said sits in a chair
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Cinema

LPFF: Edward Said: The Last Interview + Intro

Coinciding with the reissue of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine (Fitzcarraldo Editions), we present the Mike Dibb’s celebrated extended conversation with the ground breaking literary scholar.

A man stands in front of a bleak room looking at light projected on to a wall.
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Cinema

One Second & Screentalk with Dr. Jie Li and Dr. Chris Berry

This film and conversation explores the Cultural Revolution's impact on China, by looking at how cinema has been used as a tool of both resistance and propaganda.