More than four decades after the 1979 Revolution, we showcase the work of filmmakers who captured the atmosphere of the time. ‘A Revolution, Televised’ is a collection of documentaries by Iranian, European, and Arab filmmakers whose works explore the nexus between the personal and the political, to question the boundaries between perception and reality, and show how cinema itself became part of the broader socio-political fabric of…
Wed 26 Feb, 2020 – 7.15pm (Doors open 6.45) The Hive Studio, Worcesete Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up rapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation. Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill…
Mike Leigh 2018 The Hive Worcester, 10 April 2019, Doors open 18.45 Film Starts 19.15 This is event is supported by Worcester TUC, Unite Community Worcestershire, University of Worcester, Past Pixels and AMP Worcs. Tickets are free. Donations are welcome to help us run future events.
Belonging: The truth behind the headlines + Special introduction by the film’s director Morag Livingstone. An investigation of where power lies in this country. The film looks at three industrial disputes and three governments over three decades. It records the impact of government and corporate collusion on individuals, communities, democracy and human rights in the UK. It reveals a secret government…
Due to the bad weather tonight’s screening of The Nature of the Beast is CANCELLED. We will reschedule this screening and any tickets already purchased will be valid. Alternatively a full refund will be given. If you haven’t already done so please add yourself to our mailing list for updates.
This years WoRFs Spring season launches with a Special Preview of The Plan – a film that has not even been finished yet. The two extracts explain the historical context of the and then show the development of the plan itself. These two sections have been edited together specially for this event by the films director Steve Sprung. You will have an…
UNISON, the leading public service Trade Union, is marking International Women’s Day with a free film evening on Tuesday, 6th March 2018. A free showing of “Suffragette,” the recent hit film telling the story of women’s struggle for the vote 100 years ago, will take place from 6.30pm at the University of Worcester’s Severn Campus (Riverside Building). Light refreshments will…
Some of the films: on Vimeo and on youtube and on BFI player, specially for refugee week: http://player.bfi.org.uk/collections/refugee-week/ Some Links to organisations mentioned tonight: http://www.people-in-motion.co.uk/ starsforlives.org.uk http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/ http://borderlands.uk.com/ http://www.unseenuk.org/ http://www.socialworkerswithoutborders.net/ http://www.refugees-welcome.org.uk/ http://refugeeweek.org.uk/
The season finale is here. Join us on Friday for Ken Loach’s latest film I, Daniel Blake… Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only…
The Cultures of Resistance screening on Friday got off to an exciting start with the evacuation of the Hive. We made it back in 20 mins later, amid jokes about the CIA infiltrating the library to stop this threat to global capitalism. Cultures of Resistance looks at the ways in which indigenous people, artists, activists and ordinary folk around the…