SUNDAY, 12 MAY, 2019, 10:20 for 11:00 AM

Calais’ Children: A Case To Answer

Dir. Sue Clayton, 2017, UK, English/French/German, 62 mins,

 Calais Children follows the young people over the months since they left the Jungle. The film speaks to Lord Dubs, the volunteer groups, and the lawyers with whom she is challenging the Home Office’s actions in the High Court. A compelling film that follows the scandal of what happened to the almost 2,000 lone children who were in the Calais jungle as it burned down last year. Most had a legal case to be in the UK. What went wrong? Where are they now? And, what can we do about it?
Speaker: Dir. Sue Clayton and Clare Moseley from Care4Calais

The Patriot Games by George Galloway,

Dirs. McDonald Brown/Ron McKay, UK, 2018, documentary, UK, English, 27 min.

The Far Right in Britain isn’t just on the march, it is taking violent, murderous action. A neo-Nazi group called National Action applauded the murder and the murderer of a young woman member of the British Parliament, Jo Cox. Other alleged members are charged with plotting the murder of another MP and two British soldiers, said to be from the same group, face serious terrorism charges. Fascism and far-right extremism, street violence and confrontation isn’t new in Britain. It dates back to at least the 1930s, and Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts. Today’s incarnations are no less deadly. George Galloway investigates how it began, how it developed and reveals the major players in the latest mass street movement.


Screenings are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.
Nearest tube: Warren Street.  Overground: Euston.   
Buses: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390.  
Booking information: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.
Admission £10, concessions £8.  Annual members £6/£4.  Sorry, no credit cards. 
All enquiries: contact.lsfc@gmail.com or call 07988652141

SUNDAY, 14 APRIL, 2019, 10:20 for 11:00 AM

Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast

Daniel Draper, UK, 2017, Documentary, PG, English, 106 min.

Raised alongside nine siblings within a mining village, Dennis has fought for the rights of the working class for over 50-years. Uncompromising in his views and with a set of incorruptible principles, Dennis is respected and feared on both sides of the House of Commons. Nature of the Beast looks at what lies behind his passion and drive, and tracks his rise from a local councillor to today, where he is one of Britain's most recognisable politicians - known as ‘The Beast of Bolsover’.
Speaker: Dir. Daniel Draper

 Screenings are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.
Nearest tube: Warren Street.  Overground: Euston.   
Buses: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390.  
Booking information: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.
Admission £10, concessions £8.  Annual members £6/£4.  Sorry no credit cards. 
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SUNDAY, 10 MARCH, 2019, 10:20 for 11:00

These Dangerous Women

Clapham Film Unit, UK, 2017 documentary, 24 min.
This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28th April 1915, when 1300 women from 12 countries – warring, neutral and allied – met at The Hague.
They advocated mediation between the politicians to end the First World War and proposed methods of settling future differences between nations by peaceful means

Women’s Peace Crusade
Dir. Charlotte Bill, UK, 2016/17, English, 22 min.
Script by Alison Ronan and Hazel Roy, featuring Florence King as Mabel Pythian and Emma Thomas as Lydia Leech.
Funded by AHRC via Voices for War and Peace
The Women's Peace Crusade swept like wildfire across Britain from 1916 -1918. This film tells the story of the North West women who took part in Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, and Nelson. Speaker: Sheila Triggs

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Dir. Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, USA, 2007, English, 73 min.
Based on Norman Solomon's book, War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

Speakers: Kate Hudson, CND, Chris Nineham, Stop The War Coalition

Screenings are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.
Nearest tube: Warren Street.  Overground: Euston.   
Buses: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390.  
Booking information: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.
Admission £10, concessions £8.  Annual members £6/£4.  Sorry, no credit cards. 
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SUNDAY, 10 FEBRUARY, 2019, 10:30 AM FOR 11:00 AM

FIRE AT SEA
Gianfranco Rosi, Italy France, 2016, 12, English/Italian, [EST] 109 min.

Samuel is 12 years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, loves shooting his slingshot and hunting.  He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross to his island.  But his is not an island like the others.  It is Lampedusa and has been the most symbolic gateway to Europe for thousands of would-be immigrants in the last 20 years.



Screenings are at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL.
Nearest tube: Warren Street.  Overground: Euston.   
Buses: 10, 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205, 390.  
Booking information: tickets are available from 10.20 am on the day and may not be booked in advance.
Admission £10, concessions £8.  Annual members £6/£4.  Sorry, no credit cards. 
Membership details.
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