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Sunday 01st May 2016
Jamaican Films + Talks + Unit 137 Soundsystem
An afternoon of Jamaican films, food and music.
An triple bill of Jamaican films brought to you in association with the Jamaica International Reggae Film Festival and a Q&A from one of the leading experts on Jamaican and Reggae film culture, Julian Henriques.
2.30pm. Sound Business.
Award winning documentary by Molly Dineen featuring Sir Coxsone and Young Lion Sound System Narrated by Mikey Dread.
3.15pm. We The Ragamuffin.
A prize winning street musical shot on the North Peckham estate capturing the style, fashion and music of the early 90’s.
4.15pm. Countryman.
A young American couple crash land their plane in Jamaica. A fisherman rescues them and leads them away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
The New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival invite you to their closing party in Buster Mantis, the brand new Jamaican Themed bar in Deptford. Buster Mantis, complete with Jamaican food and a Rum Punch to die for (Grandmothers recipe) plus local soundsystem and DJ’s ’til 2am.
Xanadu and ’80’s roller disco!
7:00PM
Home Alone 2 – bike powered screening!
8:15PM
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
4:30PM
Babylon
5:00PM
Voyagers: a documentary/Towering Hamlets plus director Q&A
7:00PM
Carry on Jack
7:30PM
Island in the sun
7:30PM
Judas and the Black Messiah
7:30PM
Limbo
7:30PM
Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
7:00PM
Fargo
8:00PM
Gentlemen Broncos
7:00PM
Roma Illegale
7:00PM
Off The Rails
9:00PM
Red Rocket
8:00PM
Matilda
8:30PM
Ghost
5:00PM
Back to the Future
8:00PM
Xanadu and ’80’s roller disco!
Deptford Lounge
Join us for the first night of the NXDFFF when we’ll be launching in truly retro style with big hair, slick moves and fancy footwork,…
Home Alone 2 – bike powered screening!
Lower Pepys Park
This screening is in memory of Moira Kerrane who did so much for the community on the Pepys Estate. Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back….
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Music Room London
Artist Nan Goldin looks back at a life of documenting her friends in New York’s LGBTQ community. We are shown intimate photographic fragments from a…
Babylon
Matchstick Piehouse
Directed by Franco Rosso, written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia), and shot by two-time Academy Award winner Chris Menges (The Killing Fields), Babylon…
Voyagers: a documentary/Towering Hamlets plus director Q&A
Deptford Lounge
Two films by director Has San, who will be present for a Q&A after the screenings. Towering Hamlets (20 mins) Shot in the summer of…
Carry on Jack
Dog and Bell Pub
A bawdy nautical tale of mutiny, identity theft and laughs set in the early 1800s, this is one of the first Carry On films in…
Island in the sun
Hill Station Cafe
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner’s son, Maxwell Fleury (James Mason), is fighting for political office against black labour leader David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte)….
Judas and the Black Messiah
Vive Living
FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton…
Limbo
Villages Taproom
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island, housed with three other hopeful refugees…
Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
Goldsmiths College
They’re the greatest band you’ve never heard of… The British group Cymande are unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain’s…
Fargo
The Royal Albert
Things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his…
Gentlemen Broncos
Goldsmiths University Library
Join us in the library for Jared Hess’s follow-up to Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. Gentlemen Broncos tells the story of previously unrecognised sci-fi writer,…
Roma Illegale
Sanford Housing Co-op
Roma Illegale talks about the birth and evolution of the rave party scene in Rome through the 90s. It describes the introduction of techno music…
Off The Rails
Sanford Housing Co-op
Peter Day expands his BBC documentary short into a feature length focus on the British urban parkour collective Brewman. Rikke Brewer and best friend Aiden…
Red Rocket
Sanford Housing Co-op
The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny, raw and humane…
Matilda
Eckington Gardens
Come and join us in the Eckington Gardens for open air family cinema, with a screening of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Matilda tells the…
Ghost
Art Hub Gallery
Banker Sam and artist Molly are madly in love until Sam is murdered by corrupt business partner Carl, his spirit left to roam the earth…
Back to the Future
Telegraph Hill Upper Park
Throwback to the 80s with this bike-powered classic! Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, and written…
