UCL East Community Cinema Programme

All films screened at part of the UCL East Community Cinema are free and open to all, but booking is required for each film via Eventbrite. Please take note of the age rating for each film, attendees below the minimum age requirement will not be permitted. 

Term 1 programme

Explore the range of films we’re showing this season.

40 Acres (+ Q&A)
8 October
7-10pm
Age rating: 15

Selected by the New Black Film Collective, 40 Acres is a thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world of food scarcity, where a Black Canadian farm family defends their homestead from cannibals after their crops.

Spectra - Nitrate Kisses
15 October
7-9om

Spectra, Queer Non-Fiction is a film club based at the UCL East Community Cinema that celebrates the power of non-fiction film  to tell queer stories.

The Body and Moving Image (+ Q&A)
22 October
Time tbc
Age rating: 18+

The selected films centre on the presence and agency of the body in moving image. As corporeal critique, the significance for film makers and film lovers is on how moving image can explicitly work from the body to refuse a body/mind split in conveying complex topics and identities. We warmly invite you to this compilation of films, presented for their sensuous and critical poetics, interconnected by claiming/reclaiming.

The films have been selected by Gitta Wigro, an arts professional with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in dance film and dance, and Ali Baybutt, a movement artist, educator, and researcher working internationally since 2004 who currently leads performance modules on the Creative Arts and Humanities BA.

Solaris - 35mm screening
29 October
6 -10pm
Age rating: PG

SCCI Cinema Club presents Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris in its 35mm glory. A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. A true sci-fi classic! Selected by Victor Buchli (Professor of Material Culture within the Material Culture Group at UCL).

Queerkamp (+Director Q&A)
12 November
7-9pm

Sensitive and deeply observational, Queerkamp offers an intimate glimpse into the world of a queer youth summer camp, where young people spend a week among peers who share similar experiences and questions of identity. With tenderness and courage, the film captures moments of vulnerability, joy and self-discovery as the participants begin to embrace who they are, often for the first time.

Director, Lucas van der Rhee will be joining us for a Q&A following the screening.

Chosen by Spectra, Queer Non-Fiction Films at UCL East.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+ Director Q&A)
19 November
6:30 - 10pm
Age rating: 12A

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. 

A panel discussion will follow the film with Director Johan Grimonprez, Imruh Bakari (filmmaker/writer), Emma Sandon (Birkbeck/June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive) and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (UCL), chaired by David Wood (UCL). 

Selected by David Wood (UKRI Research Fellow Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, School of European Languages, Culture and Society).

Desert Hearts
26 November
7 - 9pm
Age rating: 18

Before Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Carol, there was Desert Hearts! Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Donna Deitch’s tender, ground-breaking directorial debut is a landmark of queer cinema and a triumph of independent filmmaking. Based on Jane Rule’s novel, the film follows Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), an uptight professor who travels to Reno for divorce; her world is changed however when she is thrown into the orbit of Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), a confident, free-spirited younger woman. With luminous desert landscapes and Robert Elswit’s striking cinematography, Desert Hearts remains a radical classic of LGBTQ+ cinema. Selected by Hope Bhargava (student Creative Arts and Humanities BA).

Nollywood Melodrama Season 
10 December
7-10pm
Age rating: TBC

Nollywood Melodrama Season is selected by The New Black Film Collective.

Further information

Address:
One Pool Street Cinema, UCL East
One Pool Street
London
E20 2AF

How to find us.

Please contact us if you have questions about any of the screenings or have any accessibility requirements.