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Monday 21st March 2022
White Riot plus Q&A – Fundraiser
“INSPIRING STORY OF HOW PUNK AND REGGAE GAVE RACISM THE FINGER IN ’70S BRITAIN” ★★★★
— TIME OUT
Rubika Shah’s award-winning and energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As co-founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’.
The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.
We are delighted to have a post film Q&A with RAR founders Red Saunders & Roger Huddle.
This is a fundraising screening for Streatham Free Film Festival and part of Rise Streatham project supported by Film London.
Tickets in advance or £8 on the door.
Marcel The Shell WIth Shoes On
11:00AM
Past Lives
1:00PM
Sister Act with Gospel singers
5:00PM
Monsters Inc
12:00PM
American Fiction
2:15PM
Best In Show – Dog friendly screening
3:00PM
Asteroid City
4:45PM
All About My Mother
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Gaza
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Sisu – Beer garden screening
8:00PM
The Zone Of Interest
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Moonage Daydream
7:45PM
Trolls Band Together
10:00AM
Shall We Dance
1:00PM
Dirty Dancing – Festival closing party + dance lesson
7:30PM
Marcel The Shell WIth Shoes On
The Hive
Marcel the shell lives with Alan, his pet ball of lint and his grandmother Nana Connie. He’s estranged from his family, but desperate to find…
Past Lives
The Hive
Nominated for two Oscars, including Best Picture this beautiful story is a must see on the big screen. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply…
Sister Act with Gospel singers
New Covenant Church
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Monsters Inc
The British Home
Animated classic gets a rerun. For kids and the young at heart. Mike & Sully are top scarers ‘til they meet Boo, a tiny girl…
American Fiction
The British Home
Cord Jefferson’s acclaimed directorial debut is a satire around racial stereotypes in literature in this hilarious comedy drama . Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison is a struggling…
Best In Show – Dog friendly screening
The Woodfield Project
At the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show, a “documentary film crew” captures the excitement and tension displayed by the eccentric participants in the outrageously hilarious satire…
Asteroid City
The British Home
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Wes Anderson’s latest smash…
All About My Mother
Cafe Barcelona
Todo sobre mi madre Manuela loses her only son in a tragic car accident and sets off on a journey to find his estranged father….
Gaza
The White Lion Pub
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Sisu – Beer garden screening
The Bull
During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the…
The Zone Of Interest
Furzedown Pub
Oscar winner! Two awards including Best International Feature Film. The year is 1943. Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for…
Moonage Daydream
Belmont Bowls Club
‘Moonage Daydream’ is not a documentary. It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all…
Trolls Band Together
St. Margaret The Queen Church
Poppy discovers that Branch and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by…
Shall We Dance
St. Margaret The Queen Church
Join us for a vintage screening as we marvel at the footwork of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers (“doing it backwards and in heels”). Made…
Dirty Dancing – Festival closing party + dance lesson
The Rabbit Hole
Finale screening – nobody puts Streatham Free Film Festival in the corner!!!! Quote along, sing a long – dance in your seats. 50s dress up…
