Meet twelve cartoonists who capture the comic and tragic in all four corners of the earth. People who risk their lives to defend democracy, with a smile on their faces and a pencil as their only weapon.

Stéphanie Valloatto's revealing documentary tells the story of caricaturists from places including Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Venezuela, China and Russia, surveying the risks they take every day – often finding themselves in the front line – by drawing about controversial themes such as religion and power. The reactions and debates their work provokes provide a subtle insight into the state of freedom of expression and democracy in today's world. What fuels these artists’ is an undeterred indignation at injusticesand what is revealed is a job that requires comic verve and brave persistence in the face of censorship or worse from the governments it seeks to satirise.

Screening with short Cherrywood Cannon (Dir. Charlie Paul, 2012, UK 8 min) featuring artwork by Ralph Steadman and narration by Richard E. Grant this fable features a desperate king as he creates a monument of power for his Jubilee and focuses on themes of control and paranoia in a land fuelled by fear.

We’re getting a new kitchen in December

Throughout December the builders will be in to fit our new kitchen. We will still have a Soups and Sharing Platters menu and the bar will be open as usual but as the kitchen will be closed Cinebites is going to take a month’s break. Find out more here, including details of the schedule of work. Thank you for your patience in advance.

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