Director Q&As, previews and The Love Witch. This week's special screenings at Showroom:
📽️ Films to Die For [+ Director Q&A] (CTBA) | 18-19 May
A love letter about cinema, to those who live for cinema. Director Lúcia Nagib weaves interviews with Wim Wenders, Walter Salles and Laura Mulvey into a continent-crossing essay about death and the survival of Brazilian cinema. She joins us for a post-film Q&A.
📽️ @musicintheround: Exploring Cocteau's The Human Voices | Mon 18 May @ 14.00
A panel of music and film experts explores Jean Cocteau’s masterpiece that inspired Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine.
📽️ Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo (12A) | From Tue 19 May
Exhibition on Screen returns to explore Kahlo, with exciting new material from the curators behind the blockbuster transatlantic exhibitions.
📽️ Adventure: The Fastest Bicycle (15) | Wed 20 May @ 18.10
The land speed record for a human powered vehicle stands at an eye-watering 89.5mph. A team headed by Barney Townsend, Sir Roger Bannister’s grandson, set out to smash it at Battle Mountain, Nevada.
📽️ Free Nelson Mandela [Preview + Q&A] (12A) | Thu 21 May @ 19.30
Advanced screening of a new documentary series charting Nelson Mandela's long walk to freedom, plus a Q&A with director James Rogan, Richard Caborn (former Sheffield Central MP) and Jerry Dammers (The Specials), hosted by Paul Blomfield.
📽️ WTF: The Love Witch (15) | Thu 21 May @ 20.00
Anna Biller crafted a totally unique film, writing, directing, producing, soundtracking and costuming this bizzare horror-romance, about a witch looking for love.
📽️ The Maids of Wilko (18) | Sun 24 May @ 14.30
Wajda at his most melancholic, lyrical and wistful. A story of lost romance as a businessman returns to his adolescent home, meeting a family of five sisters one of whom he once adored.
Get a ticket today: https://showroomcinema.org.uk/whats-on
