Freedom Films X: Mad Max – Fury Road – 6th March 2020
An unusually ‘blockbuster’ movie for Freedom Film Club, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, dir. George Miller, 120 mins) is this month’s curated film. Fury Road is a sci-fi action film…
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Freedom Films VIII: The Babushkas of Chernobyl – 7th June 2019
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015, Dir. Holly Morris, Anne Bogart, 71 mins) is this month’s curated Freedom Film Club film. In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor a community…
Freedom Films VII: Persepolis – 1st May 2019
Persepolis is this month’s curated Freedom Film Club film The story of this animated film follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian…
Freedom Films VI: Malcolm X – 5th April 2019
Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American human rights activist and Muslim minister who was a hugely important figure in the civil rights movement. Best known for his advocacy for the…
Freedom Films V: Suffragette – 1st March 2019
This month’s film is 2015’s historical fiction about the epochal struggle for votes for women, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Interestingly, it was apparently the first film to be filmed in the Houses of…
Freedom Films IV: Pride – 8th February 2019
This month’s film was made in the same year as our last (2014) and is set in the same year as our previous (1984), but strikes a remarkably different note to both….
Freedom Films III: Citizenfour – 11th January 2019
Following on from the fantastic The Lives of Others last month, we continue our mini-season on surveillance and its effects on human beings with Laura Poitras’ modern classic fly on the wall…
Freedom Films at Picturehouse: RBG – 13th December 2018
We’ve just learned that the critically acclaimed documentary about the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, is showing at Cambridge PictureHouse this Thursday 13th December. Meet others from Freedom…