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“This Thing of Darkness …” The role of film in transforming trauma. Postponed until 4th May
This evening explores how filmmaking can “re-frame” patterns of “looking away” in our families and communities. If we don't face our ghosts, will they continue to haunt us?
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Duchenne Boys
In response to many requests, a repeact screening of this award winning documentary. Duchenne Boys follows its creator, Sohrab Kavir, as he battles survivor’s guilt after the deaths of three of his brothers, and returns to Iran from the UK. Once there he embarks on forming a virtual football team made up of young sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the same disease that took his brother’s lives. Q&A with Sohrab after the film.
"A film of truly magnificent auteurship that will leave you alive and trembling.” Robyn Pete
![Lansdown Film Club presents: SONIC SILENTS](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1642454900445-LQQP7TZU7J0209B3W9KE/27+Mar+Sonic+Silents+THIS+ONE_Borzage+%28002%29.jpg)
Lansdown Film Club presents: SONIC SILENTS
Returning after a sell-out event at the 2020 Festival we welcome Kate Lissauer and her band who introduce a new programme of two short silent films by Frank Borzage.
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The Last Cuckoo Night with Dennis Gould & Elvis McGonagall featuring Jonny Fluffypunk & Jeff Cloves
A rip-roaring evening with two Stroud Legends.....Films, Stand Up Poetry & Music is coming to the Sub Rooms on March 26th.
![Young Musicians Play Live Soundtracks to Silent Films](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1642454635662-WB9IGSV8HZTXWZ0PI0UK/25+March++THIS+ONE+Lobster_Voyage+to+the+Moon.jpg)
Young Musicians Play Live Soundtracks to Silent Films
Stroud Arts Festival is delighted to present an exciting project combining film with the skills of local young musicians.
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Repair Cafes and The Toaster Project - how we fight entropy
A film evening to inspire and explain the global movement of Repair cafes but also discuss the complexity of how we produce products and why they can be almost impossible to repair.
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14 Days South
Pedal 4 Parks are a team of eco-adventurers, who in the summer of 2021 set out on a cycle journey, over both sea and land, across the UK’s stunning National Parks
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The Story of Plastic
THE STORY OF PLASTIC is about one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues with a timeline of how we got to our current global plastic crisis
![Stroud Film Society presents: High Ground](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641136583824-Q7TDM4P5VSYD4ASW0GPR/22+March+High+Ground.jpg)
Stroud Film Society presents: High Ground
Set against the stunning landscapes of 1930s Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, High Ground chronicles young Aboriginal man Gutjuk
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The Art of Sound in Film
Joe Magee and Tom Jacob are both Stroud-based filmmakers. Tom is also a composer and sound designer. He recently re-scored Joe’s short film, No Sherbet (Keith Allen, Sean Gleeson), and providing a sound design for Joe’s most recent short, Jackpot.
![Philophobia (aka As I Am) plus Q and A with director Dir: Guy Davies](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641136204506-7BVKSDOMXFIR1ZG8S4FM/19+Mar+PHILOPHOBIA-STILL-4.jpeg)
Philophobia (aka As I Am) plus Q and A with director Dir: Guy Davies
This dreamy coming of age independent drama, filmed in and around Stroud, was first released in October 2020, and enjoyed a national cinema release that was sadly curtailed by a new lockdown.
![Lansdown Film Club presents Bajrangi Bhaijaan](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1643379642345-UF89QXJIFSNH2HA58LH2/bajrangi-bhaijaan-12001.jpg)
Lansdown Film Club presents Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama directed by Kabir Khan
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THE TAPE PLUS Q&A AND LIVE MUSIC FROM MARTHA TILSTON
Martha Tilston plays Tally Green, Cornwall's worst cleaner, who is living in a van and making ends meet.
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Film Posters Reinterpreted: online
ALTERNATIVE MOVIE POSTERS FROM LOCAL ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
Taking place at the SVA, this years theme will be “World Cinema” with digital prints available to buy for only £20 per print.
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The Edge of Wonder: Your Health is in Your Gut
The film looks at how we need to use our imagination, find the words and language to create a positive, sustainable future to combat Climate Change
![Beyond Solastalgia plus Q and A with director Peter Moseley](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641133891550-FHKHYK99416OGYSAONB3/16+Mar+Byond+Solastalgia+2021+December%401.5x.jpg)
Beyond Solastalgia plus Q and A with director Peter Moseley
The film looks at how we need to use our imagination, find the words and language to create a positive, sustainable future to combat Climate Change
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Gather (this event is now sold out)
‘Gather’ is an intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities
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Lansdown Film Club presents ‘Dying To Divorce’ UK 2020 with director Q&A
Filmed over 5 years this documentary takes audiences into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the political events
![Dangervitch & Neptune present: Napoleon Dynamite](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641133301873-8XCMWBZ5UVHEY2JBB2I0/12+Mar+Napoleon.jpg)
Dangervitch & Neptune present: Napoleon Dynamite
A socially awkward teenager gets caught up in his dysfunctional family's misadventures
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The Greatest Showman
Stroud Film Festival in conjunction with Stroud based children’s charity, Allsorts (www.allsortsglos.org.uk) is pleased to announce a relaxed screening of The Greatest Showman.
![That’s What She Said plus Q&As with directors](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641133012719-T4H7PVLHPGSK33Q8IWC9/11+Mar+BUBBLED.Still007.jpg)
That’s What She Said plus Q&As with directors
An evening of short films completed in the last two years by female directors working across the South West.
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The Filmmaker's House Screening and Q & A with director Marc Isaacs
An independent film by Marc Isaacs from London’s acclaimed Verve Pictures.
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La Mif
A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers.
![Stroud Film Society presents: Chasing Mandela’s Rainbow](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641132503205-QR6K54CBE20D9NPP9HT4/Screenshot+2022-01-02+at+14.08.09.png)
Stroud Film Society presents: Chasing Mandela’s Rainbow
Chasing Mandela’s Rainbow is an examination of the modern day South African education system and whether in a quarter of a century, the democratic government has achieved success or failure.
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IntoFilm screenings for schools and colleges
A selection of filmsshonw throughout March — Booking thorugh into film
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Folk Britannia: Folk Roots and New Routes -- this event has been changed to online. It is FREE to register, with an option to donate.
A wonderful portrait of Stuart Hall, the black British intellectual who passed away in 2014.
![Black Ark Media presents: The Stuart Hall Project](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641131988242-47YRI9AT2HZ5W1WHXYSD/6+Mar+Stuart+Hall+1.png)
Black Ark Media presents: The Stuart Hall Project
A wonderful portrait of Stuart Hall, the black British intellectual who passed away in 2014.
![Hidden Notes Presents: Sisters With Transistors + Q&A with director Lisa Rovner chaired by Edith Bowman](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a575f07aeb625f6112061c1/1641131881811-0UD4FD0TZTBBV0J06G3Z/5+Mar+SWT+Maryanne+%28%C2%A9+Peggy+Weil%29.png)
Hidden Notes Presents: Sisters With Transistors + Q&A with director Lisa Rovner chaired by Edith Bowman
Sisters With Transistors is the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers.
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Making the Pelicantata
This 50 minute film documents the specially commissioned choral work based on Roald Dahl’s ‘The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.