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Great films back on the big screen… 📽️ #CineRedis25 touring across the UK & Ireland brought to you by @wshed.bsky.social & friends since 2016
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Afrika Eye Film Festival celebrates their 20th anniversary this weekend (Fri 14th - Sun 16th November) across Bristol.

A fantastic selection of cinema from the African diaspora, we recommend Come Back Africa (1959), a powerful docufiction filmed covertly in South Africa.

🎟️ via Afrika Eye website.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Too much melodrama over the next few months @wshed.bsky.social ?

Never too much…

www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/seas...
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"To beauty, to truth which is anything but beautiful” Kyle Hadley

Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956) screens @wshed.bsky.social
from Sun 9 - Tue 11 Nov as part of All That Melodrama Allows 💔
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Queer East: On The Road returns to Bristol Sat 1st to Tue 4th November following a record-breaking sixth edition in London in May with a selection of festival highlights featuring new and rediscovered films that explore East and Southeast Asia’s ever-evolving queer landscape.

Grab tickets below 👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today 2pm @wshed.bsky.social , experience The Story of Lovers Rock (2011), the late Menelik Shabazz’s feature-length doc shining a light on a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems ❤️
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Douglas Sirk’s beautiful film about class & conformity in 1950s small-town America All That Heaven Allows (1955) marking the pinnacle of Hollywood melodrama kicks off @wshed.bsky.social ‘s ALL THAT MELODRAMA ALLOWS exploring romance, passion & heartbreak.

Time to get swept up in a wave of emotion💔
October 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🫧 TOMORROW NIGHT Mon 20 Oct 8pm at La Escalinata Universidad de #Guanajuato in #Mexico My Beautiful Laundrette (Dir Stephen Frears, UK 1985) as part of #CineRedis ‘ Against The Grain strand at Cervantino Festival 🇲🇽 🇬🇧

🙏 to British Council 👇
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Touring internationally for the first time at Cervantino Festival, Mexico, Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema, is a season of influential, era-defining indie films fr/the 1980s, curated by & presented w/#CineRedis (produced by @wshed.bsky.social)

film.britishcouncil.org/blog/ukfilm-...
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Hola Guanajuato! ☀️

It’s an absolute joy to be representing our Against The Grain strand at Cervantino Festival in collaboration with CineClubUG at Universidad de Guanajuato 🙏 to British Council 🇬🇧 🇲🇽

Explore the line-up: festivalcervantino.gob.mx/programacion...
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Hello Oxford!

Look out for #CineRedis25 highlights at @uppcinema.bsky.social starting with the new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s landmark 1977 debut, a poetic, groundbreaking portrait of Black American life and quiet resilience Killer of Sheep.

Sunday 26 Oct 2.15pm
Monday 27 Oct 6pm
October 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Commissioned for C4, Menelik Shabazz’s Time & Judgement (1988)
uses theatre, verse & music to chronicle the struggles & triumphs of African diaspora communities globally feat. influential voices like Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan & Jesse Jackson.

See it @wshed.bsky.social Sun 12 Oct 14:00
October 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This Oct, explore the interplay of love, resistance, and Black identity, as seen through Menelik Shabazz’s visionary lens. First up this Sunday 5 Oct 2pm @wshed.bsky.social is his pioneering 1st feature Burning an Illusion (1981) shot around the communities of Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove.
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In this special season – Menelik Shabazz: Rebel Generation - presented @wshed.bsky.social w/Hyde Park in Leeds, working w/Shabazz’s daughter, Khemi – we’ll be sharing some of his most iconic works, incl. the groundbreaking Burning an Illusion + his radical sci-fi doc, Time & Judgement.
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This October, enter the world of Menelik Shabazz (1954-2021), a pioneer of Black British filmmaking. We had the privilege of welcoming him to @wshed.bsky.social in Bristol on several occasions so this strand is close to our hearts 💜
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Every Sun in Sept, @wshed.bsky.social celebrates the upcoming 30th edition of @encounters.film (24 - 28 Sept) w/1st features fr/a few notable alumni.

Next up is animation Mary & Max (2009) by Adam Elliot whose shorts played at Encounters over the years incl. his Oscar® winning Harvie Krumpet.
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Against the Grain continues at the fab @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social w/ Defence of the Realm on #35mm w/producer Lynda Myles & @markcosgrove.bsky.social ; one of relatively few 80s films to engage w/ contemporary political realities in Britain starring Gabriel Byrne

Tue 9 Sept 6pm

#CineRedis25
September 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#Belfast ! Look out for some great cinema back on the big screen @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social kicking off Fri 12 Sept with Julien Temple‘s exuberant musical adaptation Absolute Beginners (1986) starring a who's who cast of music luminaries from Bowie and Ray Davies to Sade and Slim Galliard…
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
In partnership with BFI Film Academy South West, six early-stage creatives had the opportunity to explore Cinema Rediscovered festival and produce an artistic response.

Within this initiative were workshops on programming, film and content creation, supported by Comms Coordinator Nathan Hardie.
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For the #CineRedis25 Roaming Reporters Scheme, Jahziah Dixon tackles his top five of the festival, including Kino Lorber’s 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep - available as part of Cinema Rediscovered on tour.

Read more via the link in bio 🔗
September 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Throughout Sundays in September, @wshed.bsky.social is marking the 30th edition of @encounters.film Festival (24 - 28 Sept) with a selection of first features from a few notable alumni.

From Andrea Arnold's #RedRoad to Charlotte Wells' #Aftersun, see the full programme via the link in bio.
August 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Remembering director Frank Perry who passed on this day thirty years ago (29 Aug 1995).

It was great to have The Swimmer (1968) and Play It as It Lays (1972) at #CineRedis25, introduced by curator Ellisha Izumi von Grunewald.
August 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Against the Grain makes its way to Showroom in #Sheffied

Get involved!

🫧 My Beautiful Laundrette
Fri 5 - Sun 7 Sept

💅 Rita, Sue & Bob Too
Fri 12 - Sun 14 Sept

💥The Gold Diggers
Fri 19 - Sun 21 Sept

#CineRedis25
August 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Against the Grain continues at the fab @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social with…

🏓 Ping Pong
Thu 28 Aug 6.15pm

💅 Rita, Sue & Bob Too
Fri 29 Aug 3pm & Mon 1st Sept 8.30pm

💥 Defence of the Realm w/ @markcosgrove.bsky.social & a very special guest
Tue 9 Sept - coming soon

#CineRedis25
August 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Before the screening of I, The Worst of All next week at Ciné Lumière, head to our @letterboxd.social HQ to read a wonderful piece by Argentine director and screenwriter Lucrecia Martel on the “cultural phenomenon” that is María Luisa Bemberg.

Link below 👇
August 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Friends in #Sheffield !

L👀k out for Cinema Rediscovered highlights coming to #Showroom both part of Against The Grain: 1980‘s British Cinema:

🫧 My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) - Fri 5 Sept 17.30

🌟 The Gold Diggers (Sally Potter, 1984) - Fri 19 Sept 20:00
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM