Bristol Radical Film Festival unveils 2018 programme

Small but perfectly formed, the Bristol Radical Film Festival returns for a seventh year with a weekend of rabble-rousing screenings and discussions at the Trinity Arts Centre on October 13-14.

This year’s typically eclectic selection includes a rare screening of Ken Loach’s The Big Flame, a 1969 BBC Play for Today that was so radical it united lefties and Mary Whitehouse in condemnation;  Horace Ové’s ground-breaking 1976 film Pressure, which earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the first feature to be directed by a black British director and proved so controversial that the BFI shelved it for nearly three years; Burkinabè Rising (pictured), a new documentary about creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso; and another chance to see provocative refugee drama/doc Stranger in Paradise.

There’s also a radical shorts programme, an afterparty on Saturday night and a low/no-budget filmmaking workshop with BRFF co-director Elizabeth Mizon. Follow the links below for further information about each screening and go here for tickets and weekend passes.

Bristol Radical Film Festival 2018

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