Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office.

Even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

This Oscar-winning documentary directed by Robert Epstein, was one of the first to address gay life in America.

The exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to a political visionary.
The films starts at 7.45 and will be followed by discussion.

Entry to film £3 or £2 for unwaged, low waged, students or OAPs.

Now acknowledged as an early classic of gay cinema, Mädchen in Uniform / Maidens in Uniform is an atmospheric 1931 film so reviled by the Nazis that that they attempted – unsuccessfully – to destroy every copy.

Set in a Prussian board­ing school for the daughters of officers and the bourgeoisie, it follows the part-tragic story of an unhappy pupil, Manuela whose crush on her angelic teacher, Fraulein Von Bernburg ruffles the feathers of the demonic Headmistress.

The films starts at 7.45 and will be followed by discussion.

Entry to film £3 or £2 for unwaged, low waged, students or OAPs.

Memories of Underdevelopment is a seminal and unconventional film about gender roles in post-revolutionary Cuba.

Plot and perspective are organized around the character of Sergio, a bourgeois aspiring writer who stays in Cuba even when his wife and family leave the country.

A manipulative womanizer, Sergio likes to watch women from his privileged position of a high-up flat in Havanna, and he comments on them extensively. After his wife escapes (from him or from Cuba?) to the U.S., he becomes involved with the teenager Elena, who is only just discovering her sexuality – and this involvement eventually becomes his downfall.

The films starts at 7.45 and will be followed by discussion.

Entry to film £3 or £2 for unwaged, low waged, students or OAPs.