The Advisory Forum is a collective space for our growing and increasingly diverse membership to get involved in shaping Film Hub South West’s strategic plans for the year ahead.

We acknowledge that this year has been extraordinarily challenging and there remains many unknowns for the future of cinema exhibition, as a result of Covid-19. Let us discuss and share together the kinds of support Film Hub SW could provide to assist you through these uncertain times.
Your input is key, helping us make the case for investment and to shape our next year’s activity within the context of the BFI2022 Strategy.

Whether you’re new to film exhibition, or you’re an established film venue or festival, we want to hear what’s working, what’s not working and explore your ideas for the future of the hub and wider BFI Film Audience Network, so that we can be as responsive as possible to your needs and the opportunities ahead.

The meeting part of the day will take place 2pm – 4pm (with a break).

In the morning however we have two (online) preview screenings for you!

We invite you to watch with us at 09.20am:

LOVE CHILD
Dir Eva Mulvad
152mins  | Docu-drama

Love Child offers a heartbreaking portrait of Leila and Sahand, an Iranian couple who are forced to flee for their lives from Tehran where their secret affair and illegitimate child are both considered crimes, punishable by death. Together with their four-year-old son Mani they take refuge in Turkey with dreams of a new life, seeking asylum to either Canada or the US. Intimately filmed over a five-year period, we follow their brave quest to be safe together as a family.

Directed by Eva Mulvad the film received its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and has since gone on to play major festivals around the world including IDFA, CPH:DOX, Doc NYC and the Chicago International Film Festival where it won the Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary.

Release Date: 6th November 2020

Certificate 12A

Followed at 11.30am by:

MOGUL MOWGLI
Dir Bassam Tariq
90 mins | Drama | United Kingdom, USA 2020

Bassam Tariq’s visceral directorial debut, co-written with Riz Ahmed, finds a British-Pakistani rapper’s life spiralling out of control when, on the cusp of success, he succumbs to a debilitating illness.

Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the vulnerability of illness and his decreasing mobility that brings both focus and fragmentation – memories and hallucinations merge to the beat of Qawwali music and are haunted by fervent apparitions of a masked figure – conjuring the unspoken spectre of Partition, which looms large in his father’s unspoken words. Further bruising Zed’s ego is his nemesis – RPG, a young rapper whose face tattoos and crass lyrics bewilder him. Both a paean to the importance of cultural heritage and a sharply observed reflection on muscle memory, the richness of Tariq’s achievement lies in the details of this heady mosaic.

UK distribution BFI Distribution

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