We are delighted to welcome Producer David Broder and Director Henry Blake for a Q&A after the screening.

A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year-old son who is groomed, and subsequently trapped, into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise. A 'County Line', is a term used when drug gangs from cities expand their operations to smaller towns, often manipulating children and vulnerable people to sell drugs with devastating consequences.

Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. Filmmaker Mati Diop made history earlier this year when Atlantics became the first film made by a woman of African descent to screen at Cannes.

"Dreamy yet sensual, fantastical yet rooted in uncomfortable facts, Diop's beguiling film may even have reinvented a genre." – BBC.com

 

Miles Davis: horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, the very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart. His restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms made him a star. But it also made him incredibly difficult to live with, for the people who loved him most. 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.

Wednesday 23rd • 10.30pm • Arts Picturehouse  Tickets 

Inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, The Last Black Man in San Francisco elegantly engages with a loss of cross-cultural connection as one individual seeks belonging in the new incarnation of his hometown.

Levan Akin is a Swedish-born filmmaker of Georgian descent whose work often plays on class and gender. Georgia is ranked as the world’s third most homophobic country. Merab has been training from a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and the object of his desire. In this conservative setting, Merab finds himself having to break free and risk all.