Past Events and Screenings

The film follows the lives of two Burmese families who have lived in a Thai refugee camp for nearly twenty years, after they were forced from their homeland by the repressive military junta. A resettlement scheme gives them the opportunity to relocate to the British city of Sheffield. With intimate access, this film depicts the families’ moving and sometimes humorous struggles with 21st century Britain.

View in iTunes As journalists, lawyers and peace activists – yet again – pore over the details of the Iraq invasion, isn’t it time to consider what role the media played in the conflict? Were reporters duped by Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossier”? And have they fairly reported the chaos and slow recovery of Iraq since […]

On the eve of his departure from the BBC Richard Sambrook Director of the BBC’s Global News division will look back on 30 years of overseeing and producing coverage of the biggest news stories of recent times.

Each year in China more than 130 million migrant workers travel home for the New Year’s holiday—the one time they’ll reunite with family all year. The mass exodus constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple, Changhua and Sugin Zhang, who embark upon a two-day journey to […]

In this engaging documentary, filmmaker David Bond decides to escape for a month and let private investigators track him using whatever information they can find in the public domain. The results are astonishing and is a call to anyone interested in guarding our civil liberties in an increasingly invasive digital age.

What difference will social media make to the election in 2010? How will news organisations and political parties make use of the web and what difference will the use of social media make to the traditions of reporting an election?

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the gripping account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades-old civil war. The women’s historic yet unsung achievement finds voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country.

This classic narrative documentary follows Irlan and Isabella, two teenagers growing up in one of the most violent favelas in Rio, as they strive to realise their dream. They both want to dance and know the only way out of Brazil will be to join one of the great dance companies in the North. But do they make it? This film follows them through the year that will make or break that dream.

Twenty years after the release of Nelson Mandela the Frontline Club will be looking at how South Africa today compares with the hopes and dreams of that day in 1990 when he walked free after 27 years in prison.

A new autobiography by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef throws extraordinary light on the nature of the Taliban.
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, co-editors of My Life with the Taliban will be at the Frontline Club to discuss the nature of the Taliban and if there are any grounds for reconciliation and negotiated settlement.

Intimate biography that follows Nelson Mandela from his early days as the son of a tribal chief through to his election as South Africa’s first black president.
Produced by Jonathan Demme and nominated for the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary, the feature film features exclusive interviews and narration from Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s most revered political figures.

A compelling account of a poor African-American community that stands up to the might of the Texan oil industry that continues to pollute the environment and bully with its corporate power.

“The Pool” is a neo-realist chronicle of entrepreneurial young Venkatesh, a hotel “room boy” in Panjim, Goa who ingratiates himself to a wealthy family in hopes of swimming in their luxurious pool. Adapted from a short story by his long-time collaborator Randy Russell and exquisitely shot by Smith himself, this deeply humane and moving story couldn’t be more deceptively simple.

Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House will be in the chair for another of our First Wednesday discussions. First Wednesdays are an opportunity to debate with experts and commentators on a wide range of issues from domestic politics to international affairs, climate change and economics.

British photographer David Hoffman, who specialises in coverage of protest and has dedicated his career to documenting racial and social conflict, policing and social exclusion, will focus on the war being waged on photography through oppressive policing and privacy laws that limit press freedom.

A preview of the four-part documentary series that is an intimate, inside look at Baker Company, an elite group of Army soldiers on an extended tour in Iraq as they ‘surge’ into an Al Qaeda stronghold.
Filmed over three months in 2008 by veteran combat photographer Jon Steele who will take part in Q&A after the screening.

In 2008, Mike Campbell, one of the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe to have stayed put during the violent ‘Land Reform’ programme, took the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe before a South African court. The film follows the extraordinary case of Campbell as he defends his farm, which was also home to 500 black workers and their families, and charges Mugabe with racial discrimination and violations of human rights.
Followed by a Q&A with the director Lucy Bailey.

How will the news industry survive the new decade? How will we pay for content in the 2010s and will we pay for it all?
Join us for a unique debate on the future of news media and help answer these questions and more at one of the Frontline Club’s popular networking parties.
The Frontline Club’s networking parties are a unique opportunity for current members, new associate members and invited guests to mingle in the Frontline Club’s Forum and Club bar over drinks served courtesy of Chivas Regal and Beefeater Gin between 7pm and 9pm.
An opportunity to enjoy the atmosphere of the Frontline Club, learn about its activities and join the community.

Randa Habib will be discussing her new book Hussein and Abdullah: Inside the Jordanian Royal Family with Hosam El Sokkari, head of BBC Arabic.

This discussion will now take place as part of the First Wednesday event on February 3.     In the days since the earthquake struck reports from Haiti have focused on the country’s status as the poorest in the Western hemisphere.  But how did Haiti come to be so poverty-stricken and its state so weak […]