Q&As

Photo of and audience member asking a question to Mia Hansen-Løve.
© Chelsey Cliff

Q&As

Delve deeper into the films we screen in our cinemas and event spaces with our Q&A screenings, which we're proud to host throughout the year.


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Upcoming Q&A events

Fisherman in orange overalls sitting on a boat holding a cup, with ocean and blue sky in the background.
Wed 21 Oct 18:00
Film

When a mystery tide of poisoned sealife washes ashore on England’s North East coast, grief gives way to a turbulent quest for answers, led by the unlikeliest of rebels.

First Born Second: Voices of the Children of the Windrush Era

classified 15 Black History Month
A black and white photograph of a group of children standing together smiling, posssibly from some time in the early 1970s
Thu 29 Oct 18:00
Film

When the Windrush pioneers answered the call to help rebuild post-war Britain, their children—the “First-Born”, known as the “Second Generation”—turned trauma into triumph. They changed the face of a nation, overcoming a clash of cultures and continents.

About Time: Once Upon a Time

classified 15 John Berger at 100
An older man in a plaid shirt sits at a table reading a document as a younger man stands beside him.
Sun 1 Nov 14:00
Film

Filmed entirely in different spaces in and around John Berger’s house in the Haute Savoie in France, Once upon a Time is a moving and unusual meditation on our experience of time, as revealed through a careful selection of contrasting and thought-provoking time-centred ‘stories’, both old and new.

We, The Hated

classified 18
Two people in “JUST STOP OIL” shirts pose before a vandalized sunflower painting in a museum; one holds a can of soup.
Mon 2 Nov 18:00
Film

An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.

Primetime

classified 15
A still of Robert Pattinson in Primetime.
Tue 3 Nov 17:40 (AD)
Film

Primetime stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the host of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, the mid-2000s sting show where adult decoys posing as teenagers lured men to a suburban house and Hansen strolled out to confront them on camera.

Four-panel collage: child playing piano before a mural, rocky cave openings, portrait of a bald person in red, and colourful abstract forest imagery.
Wed 4 Nov 18:00
Film

Discover the incredible diversity of UK artists’ filmmaking. This presentation showcases the shortlist for this year’s Film London Jarman Award, which features a £10,000 prize.

La Bola Negra

classified 15
A woman with blonde hair wearing a military outfit standing with her mouth open mid-movement surrounded by men also in uniforms.
Wed 11 Nov 17:00
Film

La Bola Negra tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017.

Being Heumann

classified 18 (CTBA)
A lady in a wheelchair holds her hands up in defiance with a group of other people in front of a truck.
Fri 13 Nov 17:30 (AD, DS)
Film

Directed by Academy Award® winner Siân Heder (CODA) and based on true events, Being Heumann is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds + Q&A

classified 18 (CTBA) Afrika Eye 2026
Close-up portrait of an older man with white hair and beard, wearing a blue shirt and looking at the camera.
Sun 22 Nov 14:00
Film

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds was made to share the thoughtful insights, wisdom and a life of action and artistry of Africa’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka.

The Eyes of Ghana + Q&A

classified 18 (CTBA) Afrika Eye 2026
Man in colourful patterned clothing reaches toward a blue oxygen tank beside stacked black barrels.
Sun 22 Nov 16:00
Film

The Eyes of Ghana is a feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse— personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah— as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties.

Rise + Fight Like a Girl + Q&A

classified 18 (CTBA) Afrika Eye 2026
Two women boxing.
Sun 22 Nov 18:45
Film

Against the backdrop of war, poverty and sexual violence, two stories emerge in these films of overcoming the odds in and out of the ring. Empire Fighting Chance and Afrika Eye invite you to experience the sweet science African style.

Close-up of a Eurasian lynx with spotted fur and tufted ears, gazing toward the camera in a blurred forest setting.
Wed 25 Nov 19:00
Talk

The Wolves and Humans Foundation and the Slovak Wildlife Society present an evening of talks and discussion about living with wolves and lynx in Slovakia, and the  issues surrounding reintroduction of such animals, particularly lynx, to Britain.

Four men dancing in a nightclub.
Wed 2 Dec 18:00 (AD)
Film

Growing up on a Birmingham estate, childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. But now that they’ve hit thirty, harsh reality bites, and the future they once hoped for seems more out of reach than ever.