UCL East Community Cinema Programme - Term 2 2026

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 2 programme

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

New Wave Black Cinema (+Q&A)
14 January
7 - 9:30pm

This programme brings together a selection of short films that explore the raw and complex spectrum of human emotion. Some are shaped or reimagined through artificial intelligence, while others are grounded in distinctly human perspectives. Together, these works challenge how we see, feel, and understand emotion in a rapidly changing world. Curated by Amal Tinti, a student on the MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film based at UCL East, alongside UCL students Stella Yeboah and Gabriel Ansah.

Archived: A Reimagining
4 February
From 6pm

BA Creative Arts & Humanities’ second-year students from Moving Image Practice II present a series of short films inspired by UCL Special Collections’ archival and rare printed materials. The films will interrogate the process of bringing heritage material to life, their stories and mysteries, through experimental, fictional, and documentary-style formats. Join us for BACAH’s second premiere of archive-inspired short films!

The Special Collections' archival and rare printed materials will be on display in the UCL Urban Room to view before the film from 5-6pm.

The Librarians
11 February
From 6pm

Kim A. Snyder’s urgent film shows how librarians in the US have become unexpected freedom fighters – battling censorship and political extremism to defend the right to read.

The New Black Film Collective
18 February

Details TBC

Spectra
25 February

Details TBC

The New Black Film Collective
4 March
7 - 10pm

Details TBC

Our Take: Queer and Trans filmmakers
11 March

Details TBC