Screenings
Screening – Death of Fear
Death of Fear examines how the self-immolation of a penniless fruit seller in Tunisia first ignited mass revolt in the country, then across the region in what we now call The Arab Spring.
Preview Screening – How to Start a Revolution
Ruaridh Arrow’s award winning film shows the influence of one academic’s template for non-violent revolution on every major antigovernment protest of recent times.
Film Africa 2011 Screening – Lenin’s Children
A moving portrait of the men and women who fought for the liberation of Tunisia from the French colonial power.
From the heady optimism of the early days of independence, Children of Lenin charts the country’s journey to dictatorship which only ended with the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. A fascinating insight into the history of a county that sparked the Arab Spring.
Film Africa 2011 Screening – Witches of Gambaga
The Witches of Gambaga examines the lives and experiences of a community of 100 women condemned as ‘witches’ in Northern Ghana.
El Problema – The true story of Western Sahara
By Paaras Abbas “We know that somebody is watching us. We don’t know where.” How many of us have a full realisation of the torture the people of Western Sahara endure on a daily basis? It’s a story that has simply not been heard. It is this fact that made last night’s screening of El […]
Film Africa 2011 Sunday Screening – El Problema
El Problema is a four-year investigation into the lives of people living in the Western Sahara.
The film includes testimonies from men and women who are prohibited by the Moroccan authorities from any physical expression of their Saharawi identity, including singing as well as public demonstrations. Prevented from using the name Western Sahara, they refer to the plight of the Saharawi people as ‘the problem’.
Screening – Africa Investigates
Africa Investigates launch event with award winning African journalists and investigators Sorious Samura and Anas Aremeyaw Anas together with Diarmuid Jeffreys of Al Jazeera and Ron McCullagh of Insight News TV.
Screening – The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan
Following young Afghan Mir through ten years of his life, The Boy Mir is a unique and highly personal perspective on the human experience and toll of the war in Afghanistan over the last decade.
Sunday Screening – This is Not a Film
This is not a Film follows influential Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi work within the constraints of house arrest and a ban on all writing and filmmaking by going front of camera to read one of his scripts.
Sunday Screening – Bengali Detective
The film follows intrepid Kolkata detective Rajesh and his motley band on raids and investigations across India. Through the lens of his investigative work and personal life, Rajesh the detective is the catalyst to revealing the realities of modern India.
Preview Screening – The Whistleblower
Inspired by real events, The Whistleblower is a docudrama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac – a Nebraska policewoman serving as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia who uncovered a sex trafficking scandal and exposed U.N attempts to cover it up.
SOLD OUT- THIRD PARTY EVENT Remembering Anna Politkovskaya – A special event and screening of A Bitter Taste of Freedom
RAW in WAR present: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya – a special event and screening of “A Bitter Taste of Freedom” by Marina Goldovskaya
Screening – Hell and Back Again
Hell and Back Again is a cinematic revolution in the documentation of conflict in the 21st century. Filmmaker Danfung Dennis follows U.S Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris at home and in active service in hostile Afghanistan with unrivalled artistry, immediacy and intimacy.
Announcing November events at the Frontline Club
From a series of films focusing on Africa to a discussion with Sky News’ Alex Crawford about her career and recent reporting in Libya, we have a wide range of talks lined up to keep you entertained and your mind stimulated this November, as winter approaches and the nights draw in. We will be discussing Kashmir’s future, the changing role […]
Sunday Screening – The Bang Bang Club
The Bang Bang Club traces the true story of four photographers working in South Africa during the the final days of apartheid. It tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of the men and the extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures in a crucial period of South Africa’s history.
Preview Screening – Kissinger
With exclusive and unparalleled access Adrian Pennink’s documentary unfolds around incredible interviews with Henry Kissinger during a series of trips to China, Israel and Russia. Combining these unique conversations with exceptional archive footage, the film gives an extraordinary insight into the mind, personality and motivation of one of the most influential figures in the history of American foreign policy.
FULLY BOOKED Preview Screening – When China Met Africa
When China Met Africa explores the ever-shrinking world in which we live through a cast of international characters with echoing sentiments on two different continents. The burgeoning scope of the continent’s rising global power, and the macrocosm of the three protagonists’ lives in Zambia, are portrayed in When China Met Africa to explore the new meaning of globalisation.
Screening – Love Me Please
Love Me Please investigates the shooting of journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow revealing the true extent of neo-Nazism in Russia and how human rights activists can be effective in the face of such danger.
SOLD OUT: Screening – The Nigerian Connection
The Nigerian Connection explores the emerging world of terrifying drug and sex trafficking from Nigeria to Europe. The story goes deep undercover and follows the trail of the victims, perpetrators, law makers, and citizens involved in this crisis from West Africa all the way to the shores of Italy.
Screening: Special preview of ‘The Debt’ at the Frontline Club
By Antje Bormann The screening of ‘The Debt’ by director John Madden at the Frontline Club was announced as something of a rarity, moving away from the purely journalistic treatment to the fictionalisation of political issues. The film, which will be on general release in UK cinemas from 30 September, stars Academy-Award winner Helen Mirren, […]
Screening – Give Up Tomorrow
Give Up Tomorrow is the harrowing story of Paco Larrañaga, a young man falsely accused of the murder of two Chinese-Filipino girls. The film offers an unseen glimpse into the surreal world of the Philippines’ crime and punishment.
Special Preview Screening: The Debt
The Debt is a psychological thriller that follows the story of three secret Mossad agents who are forced to revisit the case that made them famous in Israel in the 1960s.
POSTPONED: Screening – Teenage Miners
Teenage Miners is the complicated and heart-breaking story of poverty stricken children forced to work in the tin mines of Bolivia. The film shines a light on a group of children who work against the law for the benefit of the people they love, but at the cost of their lives.
Screening – John D McHugh Double-Bill
Bahrain: Fighting for Change takes to the streets of the eponymous Gulf state to examine the mounting pressure and activism of protesters looking for governmental reform. Endgame? examines the question of American military success in Afghanistan in the weeks leading up to President Obama’s decision on the eventual size of the military’s presence in the nation.
Change Season: Screening – An African Election
An African Election examines the lead-up to the dramatic 2008 presidential election in Ghana. Through threatened violence, allegations of cheating, and a heart-pounding climax of suspense, An African Election serves to illustrate this momentous election with an admirable scope.
Change Season: Screening – The Truth That Wasn’t There
The Truth that Wasn’t There offers an unprecedented view into the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka that ended in 2009. The Truth that Wasn’t There touches upon the heart of debates about documentary, objectivism, information, and ground reporting in our time of instant access to citizen journalism.
FULLY BOOKED: Screening – Cocaine Unwrapped
Cocaine Unwrapped explores the global economy and human toll of the trafficking and prosecution of cocaine. Painting a multi-faced portrait of the role of cocaine in a society that attempts to define the ‘war on drugs’ in absolutes, director Rachel Seifert takes an un-biased view of one of the world’s largest drugs and dangerous
Fully Booked: Screening – The Interrupters
Showing the ground-breaking work of three ‘violence interrupters’ working in the crime-ridden streets of Chicago over the course of a year, this film explores a radically different approach to crime in the United States.
Change Season: Preview Screening – You’ve Been Trumped
A daring and provocative film, You’ve Been Trumped takes an investigate look into the effects of Donald Trump’s proposed luxury golf resort being built on what conservationists have called the “crown jewels” of Scotland’s natural wildlife.
Change Season: Screening – Children of the Revolution
Children of the Revolution is a compelling and intricate portrait of Ulrike Meinhof of the German Red Army Faction and Fusako Shigenobu of the Japanese Red Army, as told through the unique position of their daughters.
