*Storm Darragh Update*

Due to the severe weather warnings and public transport cancellations we have delayed opening the building until 14:00 today. All screenings and events from 14:00 onwards will go ahead as normal. We will have a slightly reduced menu available from 15:00 in the Café & Bar today. Thank you for your understanding. xxx

"Leila and the Wolves weaves a rich tableau of history, folklore, myth, and archival material.” John Akomfrah

On the 40th anniversary of its production, we're excited to be screening the 2K restoration of Heiny Srour's groundbreaking Leila and the Wolves.

Nabila Zeitoni is a Lebanese student living in London in the 1980s. She is staging a photography exhibition in which women are the unsung heroes of political conflict. Through time-travelling sequences spanning from the 1900s to the 1980s, she traverses both real and imaginary landscapes of Lebanon and Palestine.

A film that reveals a nearly forgotten past of women’s struggle in Palestine and Lebanon, Leila and the Wolves attempts to retell these regional narratives from a feminist perspective.

In an interview from 2020, the filmmaker says:

“Nowadays, Leila and the Wolves is travelling the world again, more
relevant than ever; my unconscious and the collective unconscious of the women of the Middle East spoke together
throughout the extreme conditions of making this film.”

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