Bristol Radical Film Festival

Bristol Radical Film Festival The Bristol Radical Film Festival screens socially and politically engaged documentary and fiction films from around the world.

Each year we organise a weekend long festival in October and occasional take part in other events over the year. We're open to ideas and collaborations so don't hesitate to get in touch, and stay tuned!

🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for and to our partner venue for giving us an annual home.Radical cinema live...
06/10/2025

🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for and to our partner venue for giving us an annual home.

Radical cinema lives on.

Until next year… ✊

11.30 The Centre/Baldwin Street.
04/10/2025

11.30 The Centre/Baldwin Street.

🎬 starts tomorrow!A weekend of radical cinema, urgent stories and powerful conversations. Join us at this weekend and...
03/10/2025

🎬 starts tomorrow!

A weekend of radical cinema, urgent stories and powerful conversations. Join us at this weekend and join the community.

🎟 More info and tickets in bio.

Bristol Radical Film Festival - Presents The Diary of a Sky + Return to Al -Ma'in THE DIARY OF A SKY Saturday 4th Octob...
03/10/2025

Bristol Radical Film Festival - Presents The Diary of a Sky + Return to Al -Ma'in
THE DIARY OF A SKY Saturday 4th October 5pm

The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant illegal Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponisation of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop. An inventive and astonishing piece of filmmaking and commentary.

RETURN TO AL-MA'IN
Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Palestinian historian and Nakba survivor Salman Abu Sitta on the reconstruction of his birthplace, the lost village of al-Ma’in. Together they have used 3D technology to reconstruct al-Ma’in’s occupation by Zionist militias on 14 May 1948, its subsequent demolition, and the Israeli settlements constructed on its ruins. The movie looks to the present moment and the connections between the Israeli military’s conduct and appropriation of Palestinian land in 1948, and today in Gaza.

Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk

Entry requirements: 18+

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - Miners' Strike. A Frontline StoryThis documentary tells the story of this year-long...
03/10/2025

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - Miners' Strike. A Frontline Story

This documentary tells the story of this year-long conflict by combining archive footage with deeply personal testimony from striking and working miners, their families and the police - with many speaking for the first time.

Among other events, the film retells the events of 18 June 1984, the Battle of Orgreave. We hear how pickets thought it strange that they were allowed by the police to line up outside a coking works that had been identified as crucial to the government’s effort to break the strikes. Then they found out why. The unusually heavy police presence turned on the striking workers, charging them with horses and meting out extreme violence.

Tickets:https://www.brff.org.uk

Entry requirements: 18+

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - London Recruits + Director Q+A Saturday 4th October 2pm.South Africa, 1970. Impriso...
03/10/2025

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - London Recruits + Director Q+A Saturday 4th October 2pm.

South Africa, 1970. Imprisoned, tortured, killed - the racist, apartheid regime has all but annihilated oposition inside the country. It seems that all hope for liberation is at an end.

In exile, Oliver Tambo initiates a secret plan. He sends young freedom fighter Ronnie Karrils to London. From eight thousand miles away, Ronnie is tasked with convincing the aprtheid authorities and the oppressed population that hope lives on and that ANC units are still operating inside South Africa.

With almost no budget, Ronnie and a small cell of fellow exiles turn to the ordinary young people of London for help. So begins a series of ever more daring undercover missions that send shock waves through the regime.

A potent mix of never before seen archive footage, action packed drama and candid testimony from the recruits, eyewitnesses and secret police - London Recruits is a compelling journey into the heart of apartheid South Africa. There will be a Q+A from Director Gordon Maine

Entry requirements: 18+

Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - Censoring PalestineAn event held at The Cube on Sunday 5th October. Doors are at 12...
03/10/2025

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2025 - Censoring Palestine

An event held at The Cube on Sunday 5th October. Doors are at 12:45 with the event starting at 13:00.

Terrible things are happening in Palestine, but the newspapers and TV don’t tell us the truth. Even social media is censored. In the streets, in education, on stage and screen, speaking out is not allowed. People face dawn raids, arrest, detention. Dissent has been criminalised.

Veteran film director Ken Loach describes how our mass media is being manipulated. The BBC, he says, is an arm of the state.

Students tell of brutal treatment at the hands of the police for daring to protest.
Women speak out against the outrageous imprisonment of their daughters for taking action to stop drones killing innocent people. Idealistic protesters are being branded terrorists.

Horrifying pictures show the war crimes being committed which our TV and newspapers won’t report.

Even the most peaceful demonstrations against the genocides come under fire as the police crack down on a national march and make multiple arrests including one of the organisers.

With powerful testimony from those who have been silenced, the film tells the story of the most outrageous attack on freedom of speech in modern times — a concerted establishment effort to hide a genocide.

With Ken Loach • Alexei Sayle • Jackie Walker • Roger Waters • Sarah Wilkinson • Peter Oborne • Ben Jamal • Lindsey German and many more.

Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk

Entry requirements: 18+

🔔 Only **2 days** until !Radical stories. Radical voices. Don’t miss it.🎟 Tickets in bio.
02/10/2025

🔔 Only **2 days** until !

Radical stories. Radical voices. Don’t miss it.

🎟 Tickets in bio.

01/10/2025

🎞 Sneak peek at what’s coming to , 4–5 Oct at The Cube Microplex. Don’t miss it.

🎟 Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk/

We asked the team to choose their highlight of this year’s festival.Here’s what chose:“For me, it is Sudan, Remember ...
30/09/2025

We asked the team to choose their highlight of this year’s festival.

Here’s what chose:

“For me, it is Sudan, Remember Us. A film that reminds us of the importance of hope. How young people can involve themselves in acts of resistance, including creating art, in the hope of improving the lives of people.”

Screening at at 7pm on October 5th.

🎟️ Tickets in bio.

🔥 Film Spotlight: Sudan, Remember Us(Hind Meddeb, France/Tunisia/Qatar, 2024)A powerful portrait of Sudan’s counter-revo...
30/09/2025

🔥 Film Spotlight: Sudan, Remember Us
(Hind Meddeb, France/Tunisia/Qatar, 2024)

A powerful portrait of Sudan’s counter-revolutionary war, centring women and youth. Amid murals, poetry, and music, art becomes a tool of resistance.

📅 Sun 5 Oct, 7PM–9PM
📍 The Cube Microplex, Bristol
🎟 Tickets: https://www.brff.org.uk/

We asked the team to choose their highlight of this year’s festival.Here’s what chose:“For me it is our Black History...
29/09/2025

We asked the team to choose their highlight of this year’s festival.

Here’s what chose:

“For me it is our Black History Month special - *Fanon*, which focuses on the early life of writer and activist Franz Fanon. A nicely paced film which explores two key moments in his thinking and his practice. Firstly, as a radical psychotherapist who illuminated the mental impact of everyday racism and then developed radical treatments to support those worst affected. And secondly as a political fighter against the very racist societies that create such misery. Checkout his books ‘Black Skin White Masks’, and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’….
Fanon has an important message for those fighting racism and Islamophobia today.”

Screening at at 8pm on October 4th.

🎟️ Tickets in bio.

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