Two-year prison sentences for throwing condensed soup at a plate of glass. No punishment whatsoever for dodging a £3.7m tax bill, selling dud PPE to the NHS, dumping billions of litres of sewage in rivers or knowingly fitting flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower.

Israel has murdered more innocent people in Lebanon in the past few days than Hamas did on October 7th. The western media's hypocrisy regarding this and the entire war will be studied in a generation.

These protestors are not stupid They KNOW they are going to prison for this, but they are doing it anyway They're doing it to show that repression won't work, and the climate movement is not going away It's an act of incredible courage and heroism. THANK YOU!

Africa at the Oscars, 97th Edition With just two days remaining until the October 2, 2024 submission deadline for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, just five African countries have announced their entries: - Algeria: "Algiers" by Chakib

📣 Community cinemas! Get in touch to book this gem of a film available on MP4 / DCP w/subtitles & Descriptive subtitles with a pre-recorded intro by curator Lorena Pino M 👇

Are you involved with #ScreenHeritage or #ArchiveFilm? We're looking for presentations, workshops, film programmes and more that can tour indie venues; engaging audiences and highlighting a range of historical narratives. Find out more + apply by 25 Oct: tinyurl.com/SDA-OpenCall

trans rights are human rights.

Happy Black History Month 🎈 This Sat we are taking audiences on an odessey of Black Women Action Heroes.. Sat 5 Oct Hyde Park Picture House All dayer Films & Talks Inc The Woman King, Proud Mary, Black Panther and a Mystery Short 🌟✨🌟✨ £35 for the day hpph.co.uk/films/action-w…

Can't WAIT for this one

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved Leeds International Film Festival as an Oscar® Qualifying Festival until 2027 for the Live Action and Animated Short Film categories through our Louis le Prince International Short Film and World Animation grand prizes.

Screening Hyde Park Picture House from Monday 21st, with a live director q&a 🥰 Such a special and innovative film

Proud to be hosting ico archive screening days - my fave industry event.

BREAKING: everyone is allowed have a little cigarette today just to keep them going

This sounds frivolous in the grand scheme of things but we need to support archivists, protect public libraries, protect journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. We need to continue to keep culture alive and educate our youth.

📣 We are calling for UK based curators/event producers to pitch in proposals for the upcoming edition of Cinema Rediscovered (23-27 July ‘25) as part of Other Ways of Seeing, a development opportunity supported by BFI / #NationalLottery For more info: wshd.to/pitchtocr25