It's almost time for Flatpack Festival Festival! Do you have your tickets yet?

We are teaming up with TheDocSociety for a panel, shorts screening and networking drinks on the 17th May at Mockingbird Cinema. Bar & Café - come join us!

Tickets are free and available below!

flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/bfi-netw…

Join us for Minds & Machines: Creativity and AI with Flatpack Festival at The Exchange on Thursday 16 May, 18:30 - 21:30!
Brimming with music, live performances, interactive installations, short films & discussions exploring AI's impact on creativity.
Tickets here
flatpack.eventive.org/schedule/65f07…

'All I'd like to do is sound the moment we live in in the most honest and historicised way possible.'

Ahead of our screening of R21: aka Restoring Solidarity, Selene’s Archive spoke to sound artist Bint Mbareh about the piece she conceived for the event: flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/interview…

'I don’t know a woman who doesn’t hate a part of her body. What does that mean for us as women?'

Bridgett M Davis' landmark in Black independent cinema follows an actress whose mom was a blaxploitation icon.

See the new 4K restoration of Naked Acts: flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/naked-ac…

.Flatpack Festival Festival kicks off tomorrow in Brum! 📽️🌟

From diving into Creativity and AI at The Exchange to an outside screening of Carrie at Birmingham Botanical Gardens UK, the unique film festival allows you to see cinema in a completely different light.

Tickets 👉 bit.ly/3UwiYQi

Ahead of their performance at Flatpack Festival in Birmingham, Aileen Ang speaks with Shin & Emi - the couple behind performance duo ‘Usaginingen’ about how they use art as a medium to reclaim Teshima from its nickname ‘Garbage Island.’

Full read live now 🔗⬇️

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Excited to bring Sri Lankan British artist/filmmaker Chloe Abrahams’ debut film The Taste of Mango to Mockingbird Cinema. Bar & Café for Flatpack.

Plus - Beverley Bennett will present the first single-channel UK screening of her moving image piece Simon Says/Dadda.

🎟️ flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/the-tast…

AHFIWE CINEMA PRESENTS: PRAISE TRAIN + LIVE SCORE

An evening exploring Black radical aesthetics and spirituality through two extraordinary films with Flatpack Festival

Tuesday 14th May, 2024

🎟️ flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/ahfiwe-c…

Our new exhibition ‘Love is Real, and it’s Inside of My Computer’ launched last Friday! 💖

Come see the show at Grand Union Wednesdays 2-5pm, and Thursdays to Saturdays 12-5pm until August 3. 🗓️

Find out more 🔗 grand-union.org.uk/whats-on/love-…

When you come to see our film 'This is Birmingham' at Flatpack Festival festival on Saturday, you'll have the pleasure of visiting the most *brutiful* Bethel Chapel

Tickets still available via the link below, see you there!

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Starting in two days!
Friday 10th-Sunday 19th May.
Flatpack Festival Festival in Birmingham, ten whole days of incredible films and performances from all over the world.
Explore the full line-up: flatpackfestival.org.uk/flatpack-2024

Writer, curator and artist Yifan He explores Chinese diasporic lesbian identity through film and shared resources at this year's Flatpack.

📽️ On screen: Alice Wu's 2005 rom-com Saving Face + interdisciplinary artist April Lin's Reality Fragment 160921

🎟️flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/chinese-…

𝗚𝗢𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘 (𝗲𝗽. 𝟭)
....interactive AV installation!
showing next Thursday Flatpack Festival festival

.....charge your phone....
flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/minds-an…

The Flatpack Festival kicks off this year with a journey through cinema coupled with consensual hallucinations People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) and the The Light Surgeons on 10 May 8pm. Venue: Birmingham Black Box, B19 3EB Flatpack Festival #birminghamevents

birminghamexplored.com/event/people-l…

This Fri 10 May at Mockingbird Cinema. Bar & Café Birmingham BILLY CONNOLLY BIG BANANA FEET is a documentary following Connolly on his 1975 tour of Northern Ireland & Ireland, using his trademark humour to navigate political tensions

mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCin…

Jason Yu’s intense horror feature debut follows two expectant parents as they navigate a bout of sleep-talking that develops into truly nightmarish behaviour.

Scary, funny, and very smart.

Thursday 16 May at Mockingbird Cinema. Bar & Café

flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/sleep?pe…

On 14 May Ahfiwe Cinema presents two rarely seen films by pioneering Black filmmakers from decades past.

📽️Julie Dash's acclaimed short Diary of An African Nun 🎶1930s silent Hellbound Train by Eloyce Gist, accompanied by a live composition by swaampcat.

flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/ahfiwe-c…

🌆Flatpack Festival Festival 2024
Midlands Short Film Club - 17th May // 4pm // Mockingbird Cinema. Bar & Café

Flatpack Festival returns to #Birmingham for 2024 with an as always brilliant programme - head to their website to find the film treats on offer this year!
🔗flatpackfestival.org.uk

No plans this week? Check out our top picks of things to do in the region from 6-12 May?

⭐ Withnail and I at The Rep
⭐ Matilda in Concert at The NEC
⭐ Flatpack Festival Festival

More inspiration: visitbirmingham.com/whats-on

We're so excited about our upcoming screening of Babeworld’s 2023 horror-inspired film ‘Derby Day’ at @MockbirdCinema on May 15! 🌟

This event has been organised in collaboration with University of Birmingham students and @Flatpack! 🎞️

Find out more 🔗 flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/derby-da…