Black History Month 2022

The directorial debut of multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman is an exhilarating Afrofuturist anti-capitalist sci-fi-punk-musical about a cosmic romance between an intersex hacker and a coltan miner which seeds a revolution.

Join us for a film screening and talk with Eric Collins, host of the award-winning Channel 4 Show The Money Maker, on Black business and entrepreneurship.

A talk from Dr Roger Griffith MBE on the late great actor and activist Sidney Poitier, followed by a screening of a new documentary on his life and legacy.

With his heartfelt and critically acclaimed feature debut, writer/director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed follows a man as he desperately tries to seek help for his ailing wife.

For Black History Month, Sheba Soul Ensemble take a backwards, forwards and sideways look at how racism affects communities and family lives with a series of short film screenings, Q&As and a creative writing workshop.

A new historical epic telling the remarkable story of the Agojie: the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen.

A preview of the new historical epic telling the remarkable story of the Agojie: the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen.

To celebrate the start of Black History Month Encounters Film Festival partner with St Paul's Carnival to present a screening of new documentary Inna Wi Carnival.