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Looking Back, Moving Forwards

Looking Back, Moving Forwards is a queer cinema project that looks back into queer history on screen

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August Spotlight - 501 Not Out

13th August 2019

25 years ago, Warwickshire cricketer Brian Lara racked up the highest ever score in first class cricket at Edgbaston cricket ground, the fabled ‘501 not…

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July Spotlight - Stirchley Open Cinema

We talked to Suzanne Carter, one of the volunteers at Stirchley Open Cinema, about what challenges community cinemas face in reaching audiences.

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June Spotlight - BLAST! Festival

The borough of Sandwell is taken over this June by the Blast Photo Festival, a series of exhibitions, screenings and talks that largely highlights the…

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FILM CAMP 2019

Benjamin Reynolds from Stamford Arts Centre, reviews Film Camp 2019 after receiving his bursary from Film Hub Midlands.

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DIEGO MARADONA Preview Screening

Having never won a major tournament, SSC Napoli had always underachieved. But when Diego Maradona arrived in 1984, all hell broke loose. In a city…

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DIRTY GOD Preview Screening

When Jade, a young mother from London, is discharged from hospital, the doctors are are happy with her progress. But can she ever be happy…

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April Spotlight - Flatpack

As well as putting together Filmwire, Flatpack also produce a little annual jamboree called... Flatpack!

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International Film Festival Rotterdam

13th February 2019

Sam Groves, Programmer at Flatpack attends the film festival in the Netherlands.

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International Film Festival Rotterdam

4th February 2019

James Anderson Brown from The Mockingbird Cinema in Birmingham attends the festival.

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CineQ Queer Film Festival 2019

Occupying independent spaces and showing complex and engaging cinema, CineQ Queer Film Festival will run from the 22nd -24th March 2019.

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Disabled Heroes at mac

Disabled Heroes is a programme of events and screenings designed to stimulate debate around disability and film and question traditional depictions of disability.

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