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Access: Level access on ground floor via The Headrow entrance, with lift to all floors. Wheelchair accessible toilets.
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Unmissable reportage from the frontlines of the Arab Spring by passionate participants rather than detached observers. Arriving in Cairo on assignment, acclaimed documentary film-maker Omar Shargawi could not have predicted that the streets would erupt in one of the most important revolutions of this century. Shargawi and friends captured the reality of the revolution that [...]
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With clarity and a deep respect for his subjects, filmmaker Petr Lom follows five stories of ordinary Egyptians who have suffered injustice at the hands of the State in the first year of the revolution’s aftermath. Shot in an intimate vérité style, the film takes us into hidden corners of Egyptian lives, far from the [...]
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Imagine everything you ever did was possessed of spectacular artistic inspiration. That’s not far from the truth of how designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor and musician Wayne White lives his life. You may recognise his art from the set of legendary 80s kids TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Beauty is Embarrassing portrays White as a multi-talented family [...]
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Behind the Screen casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry where 7 computers are produced a second. Behind the Screen reveals the people behind the important electronic product and thereby illustrates the links of our decentralized economic system, which are difficult to grasp based on real life processes. Behind the Screen [...]
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Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta through [...]
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Soul music is always most rewarding when it’s sung by someone who’s paid their dues and, oh boy, has Charles Bradley. Charles Bradley: Soul of America documents the singer’s belated breakthrough, releasing his debut album at the age of 62 and playing to sold out audiences after close to half a century spent struggling as [...]
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Arts and Minds present another selection of short films about mental health and learning disability featuring dramas and documentaries from a variety of individuals and organisations across the region. Some of the films have been made by the Arts & Minds film group, filmmakers who have personal experience of mental health issues. Others are from [...]
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Golden Slumbers is a poignant and fascinating documentary that resurrects the myths and legends of a lost cinema. Cambodian films flourished in the 1960s, drawing huge crowds to theatres around the country, until the industry was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. Of the 400 films produced, only 30 remain today. Almost all the actors were [...]
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Mixing Super 8 and 16mm film in a cut and paste, homemade aesthetic, Grandma Lo-Fi pays tribute to Icelandic hometaping legend, Sigríður Níelsdóttir. At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. Seven years later she had made 59 albums, crafting an endless array of [...]
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In 1989, 20-year-old guitar virtuoso Jason Becker was on the brink of global success. He’d just landed himself a gig playing lead guitar for Van Halen’s David Lee Roth when he was struck down with ALS, the aggressive degenerative disease Professor Stephen Hawking suffers from. Despite his debilitation, Jason continues to compose music using complex [...]
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