Nevertheless, She Persisted: Suffrage, cinema and beyond
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New Releases
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Returning the Colonial Gaze
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (12A)
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A writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island in the aftermath of World War II when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.
Funny Cow (15)
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The story of an aspiring, working-class comedienne is a hilarious and heart-breaking charmer.
Let the Sunshine In (15)
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Director Claire Denis gives a wry account of an artist’s search for love, in this witty black comedy starring Juliette Binoche.
Western (12A)
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Europe's borderlands provide the setting for this tense German drama interrogating interpersonal and economic power.
Parent & Baby Screening: Funny Cow (15)
The story of an aspiring, working-class comedienne is a hilarious and heart-breaking charmer.
Nevertheless, She Persisted: Enemies of Happiness (15*)
Eva Mulvad follows Malalai Joya, a young outspoken Afghan woman, during the last weeks of her political campaign as she risks her life to speak out for democracy.
Nevertheless, She Persisted: Be Pretty and Shut Up (15*)
Frustrated by her own and other women's experiences in the film industry, French actress and activist Delphine Seyrig interviews two dozen French and American actresses...in 1976.
New East Cinema: Night Accident (15*) + introduction
A minimalist and poetic piece of slow cinema, Temirbek Birnazarov's Night Accident is a tale about an old man who finds love and purpose to live in a moment of complete despair.
Afternoon Arts: Exhibition on Screen: Manet (PG)
This film brings together behind-the-scenes access to the Royal Academy of Arts' 2013 retrospective devoted to Edouard Manet's portraiture and a superbly crafted biography of the artist.
Framed Film Club: Early Man (PG)
Aardman Animations (Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit) bring us this fantastic adventure set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth.
