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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
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Two young men lie in bed together in a dark space.
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Queer 80s: Beautiful Mystery + introduction by Tony Rayns

Political correctness flies out the window in Genji Nakamura’s outrageous gay erotic comedy, which satirises author and nationalist Yukio Mishima and his private army. 

Three young, dishevelled teens stand in a stunning landscape, one holds a rat.
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Family Film Club: Harry Potter and the Prisoner...

A fantastic chance for new young Potter fans to experience the magic of Hogwarts on the big screen!

Two young men embrace each other in a dark city skyline.
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Queer 80s: Beyond Gravity + Gay Short Films from New Zealand

Just a couple of years after New Zealand’s decriminalisation of same-sex activity came this charming romance between a neurotic gay man and a cocky Italian, showing alongside two key gay Kiwi shorts.

A woman looks out of a window, peering round the corner, in a black and white image.
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Silent Film & Live Music: Bed and Sofa

This wry sex comedy offers fascinating insights into male-female relations in the supposedly post-bourgeois communal society of Soviet Russia.

A woman looks on as another woman cries in front of her.
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Queer 80s: The Farewell + introduction

A gay woman struggles to cope in the repressive home of her bourgeois father on the eve of WWII in Helsinki in Tuija-Maija Niskanen’s haunting period drama. 

A woman tried to comfort another
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Senior Community Screening: The Farewell + Introduction

Free

A gay woman struggles to cope in the repressive home of her haute bourgeois father on the eve of WWII in Helsinki, with an introduction from film curator Alex Davidson. 

Two women embrace on a tropical beach.
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Cinema

Queer 80s: Radical Defiance: Queer Brazilian Super-8 Shorts

Three powerful Brazilian short films from the early 1980s explore queer lives in the last years of the military dictatorship, showing in the UK for the first time.

Two topless men embrace each other.
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Queer 80s: Tongues Untied + introduction and poetry

An arresting mix of documentary and performance, Marlon Riggs classic essay film is an intense, unforgettable depiction of black, gay experience in the US. 

Nimona looks threateningly forward, ready to fight.
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Family Film Club: Nimona

This futuristic-medieval-punk-metal mash-up is a face-meltingly brilliant thrill-ride perfect for the big screen! 

A young person playing a lute in traditional clothing, against a desert scape.
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Queer 80s: Ashik Kerib + Introduction

Sergei Parajanov’s last film, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze, is an Azeri-Turkish love story about a wandering minstrel forced to roam the world for 1001 nights to win the hand of his beloved. 

Two boys stand opposite each other wearing mixed martial arts uniforms, in front of a desert city.
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Cinema

Refugee Week: We Dare to Dream + ScreenTalk

As the Refugee Olympic Team prepares to compete at the Tokyo Olympics, We Dare to Dream chronicles their hopes and desires as they fight for a better life, plus a ScreenTalk with the director.

Two people stand in front of a mirror in a darkly lit bathroom.
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Queer 80s: Law of Desire + introduction

A deeply twisted gay romance is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar first truly great film, a sexy, dangerous thriller with superb performances from Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura.

An animation of a man and a woman in front of a sunset, the man lays bricks on a wall whilst the woman watches on.
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Cinema

SAFAR: The Tower + ScreenTalk

A beautifully animated film about a young Palestinian girl gathering her families memories in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Two women look at a wall that has photographs and notes pinned on to it.
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Cinema

SAFAR: Bye Bye Tiberias + ScreenTalk

SAFAR Film Festival is delighted to present an exclusive Q&A preview of Bye Bye Tiberias ahead of its UK release by T A P E Collective.

A girl sitting on a train with her parents looks hopefully out the window.
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Family Film Club: Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo

We’re partnering up with SAFAR Film Festival during National Refugee Week to present this beautiful animation that champions hope and understanding.