MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE + REC. Q&A
Delving beneath the public persona of the charismatic ‘Rock God’, Mystify: Michael Hutchence reveals a multifaceted and sensitive man. Hutchence had explosive magnetism, but also many secrets; his story emerges here with emotional and revelatory depth.
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE? + Q&A (Mon 21 Oct)
A blistering meditation on the state of race in America, Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? chronicles the lives of Black communities in the Southern states.
MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn.
FOR SAMA
A letter from young mother Waad al-Kateab to her baby daughter Sama, to whom she gave birth on the front line of cataclysmic conflict in Aleppo.
YOUR TURN
In the wake of Brazil’s economic and social crisis, students protest and occupy hundreds of schools. Inspired by the collective voice of the movement itself, Your Turn is narrated by three high school students, who represent the central points of their struggle.
HITSVILLE: THE MAKING OF MOTOWN
With a soundtrack that will have you dancing in your seat, if not in the street, Hitsville: The Making of Motown chronicles the astronomical success and enduring cultural impact of Motown Records.
ONE CHILD NATION
One Child Nation spirals from the personal impact of China’s one-child policy on director Nanfu Wang’s family and out into the all-encompassing and traumatic power it held over a nation.
HONEYLAND
In a deserted Macedonian village, 50-something Hatidze, clambers up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks; but disruption is coming. With beautiful cinematography evocative of Caravaggio, Honeyland explores nature’s vulnerability under capitalist demand.
BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL SCREENING: APOLLO 11
Screening as part of the Bloomsbury Festival - an annual celebration of the area’s pioneering creativity. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s lunar landing, the 2019 Festival theme is Small steps and giant leaps.
SUZI Q
Suzi Q is the definitive, unexpurgated story of the girl from Detroit City who redefined the role and image of women in rock’n’roll when she broke through around the world in 1973.
TAKE ONE ACTION PRESENT: PUSH + PANEL
The UK's leading global change film festival Take One Action present a screening of Push.
gal-dem film club x RISE Collective: Your Turn + Poetry Intro
Part of our gal-dem film club series, join members from RISE Collective as they perform poetry in response to the film Your Turn before its screening on Thur 10 Oct.
SEA OF SHADOWS
Activists, marine biologists and the navy fight to save the world’s smallest whale from extinction as its habitat has been destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese Mafia who harvest the swim bladder of the Totoaba fish, the ‘cocaine of the sea’.
AMA-SAN
In Wagu, a fishing village in the Ise Peninsula of Japan a group of women free-dive everyday not knowing what they’ll find. The Ama-San have been diving like this in Japan for over 2000 years.
ON THE PRESIDENT'S ORDERS
Shot in the style of a Hollywood thriller, this is the searing story of President Duterte’s bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war.
THE GENIUS AND THE OPERA SINGER + Q&A
An unsettling portrait of a mother-daughter relationship - a 92-year-old former opera singer and her volatile daughter who have inhabited a rent-controlled Manhattan penthouse for the last fifty-five years - along with their obese chihuahua, Angelina Jolie.
BIRDS' EYE VIEW PRESENTS: FOR SAMA
A letter from young mother Waad al-Kateab to her baby daughter Sama, to whom she gave birth on the front line of cataclysmic conflict in Aleppo.
MOTHER
Two narratives collide in a small village in Thailand. Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s, while a family prepares to leave Switzerland, in this moving observation of motherhood and care.
SWARM SEASON
On the remote volcanic island of Hawaii, 10-year-old Manu and her mother collect wild, endangered bees in order to breed disease-resistant colonies, while her father protests developments on sacred mountain Mauna Kea.
gal-dem Film Club: Shakedown + Panel
gal-dem takeover the DocHouse screen with a screening of Shakedown + panel discussion.
EXTINCTION REBELLION PRESENTS: THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER + Q&A
Filmed 50 summers ago, The Moon and the Sledgehammer is a poetic and eccentric classic of British nonfiction filmmaking, that we’re excited to be screening on the Autumn Equinox.