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Skate Dreams
Sat, 22 Oct 3:00PM @ QuarterhouseSkate Dreams is the first feature documentary about the rise of women’s skateboarding. It profiles a diverse group of women…![Still from Electric Malady]()
Electric Malady
Sat, 22 Oct 11:30AM @ QuarterhouseFor over a decade William has been living with a debilitating condition that has forced him to retreat from society…![Woman with purple hair at protest]()
If I Could Wish for Something
Sat, 22 Oct 11:30AM @ Quarterhouse"Cops, be listening, your daughter’s out here fighting!" The chants of thousands of feminists who took to the streets in…![Stone Club: Sticks and Stones poster]()
Stone Club: Sticks and Stones
Sat, 22 Oct 9:00AM @ QuarterhouseJoin Stone Club on a filmic dance through the landscape and ancient sites of Britain. From beating the bounds and…![Still from Summer of Soul documentary film]()
Summer of Soul
Sun, 14 Nov 4:00PM @ Silver ScreenSummer of Soul (… Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson will inspire our programme…![Still from Island of the Hungry Ghosts documentary]()
Island of the Hungry Ghosts + Seahorse
Sun, 14 Nov 2:00PM @ QuarterhouseRachel Pronger Guest programmer screening + introduction. On remote Christmas Island, thousands of asylum seekers are detained in a high-security…![Still from film Flee]()
Flee (Preview Screening)
Sun, 14 Nov 2:00PM @ Silver ScreenThe extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden…![still from film The Gleaners and I]()
The Gleaners and I
Sun, 14 Nov 12:00PM @ QuarterhouseAgnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the…![I Get Knocked Down still]()
I Get Knocked Down
Sat, 13 Nov 8:30PM @ QuarterhouseI Get Knocked Down is the untold story of Chumbawamba and lead singer Dunstan Bruce’s personal voyage of rediscovery, redemption…![Bronx Gothic]()
Ways of Being : Bronx Gothic + The Words I Do Not Have Yet
Sat, 13 Nov 7:30PM @ QuarterhouseGuest programmer, Karen Alexander, presents two works in which the artists use the mediums of dance and animation to celebrate…![Still from Handsworth Songs]()
Handsworth Songs
Sat, 13 Nov 7:30PM @ QuarterhouseA film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the inner city riots of 1985, Handsworth Songs…![Still from film Portrait of Ga]()
Her Own Landscape: Outsider Artists, Environment and Resistance
Sat, 13 Nov 7:00PM @ QuarterhouseArchive activists Invisible Women present a programme of shorts exploring our relationship with the environment through the eyes of three…![Songs for the River still from film]()
Songs for the River
Sat, 13 Nov 5:00PM @ QuarterhouseOver the course of a year, filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg filmed the London housing co-operative that she lives in, looking to…![Still from film Everybody in the place]()
Everybody in the Place
Sat, 13 Nov 4:30PM @ QuarterhouseWe join an A-level politics class as they discover these stories for the first time, viewing the story of acid…![Still from film Stray]()
Stray
Sat, 13 Nov 10:00AM @ QuarterhouseA Dog Friendly Screening! Hot Docs 2020’s Best International Feature Documentary winner offers a dog’s-eye view of life in Istanbul.…![The Story of Looking]()
The Story of Looking
Fri, 12 Nov 6:00PM @ Quarterhouse6pm – Welcome party Join the festival team as we celebrate the opening of the first Folkestone Documentary Festival. DJ…
