This week the Bristol Radical Film Festival hosts some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Showing in a variety of community-based venues and culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube, the festival aims to bring cinema out from the corporate multiplex and into the community.

Despite being used since its inception as a tool to educate, agitate and inspire action on some of the most important social, political and economic issues facing society, the vast majority of audio-visual media today is dominated almost entirely by the profit motive. Consequently, the majority of our screens are filled with a cinema which, when not entirely reactionary, gleefully reproduces the status quo and the social, political and economic values that go with it.

The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. Taking place over the course of a week, the festival hosts some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Showing in a variety of community-based venues and culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube, the festival aims to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and into the community.

In the wake of the recession and the unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it, recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to help.

All events during the week are free with donation (no one turned away for lack of funds), except the opening Friday night at The Cube.

CUBE WEEKEND Weekend Pass: £25/£15 concessions Session Pass: £4/3 concessions

For the programme check out the website for more info

The fight back is on.

Come and see what cinema can do to help.

Monday 27th February: You Must be Choking: Anti-Roads Protests of the 1990s at Hydra Bookshop, Old Market

Tuesday 28th February: Women and Resistance at The Bristol 125 Project: 138a Grosvenor Road, St. Pauls

Wednesday 29th February: Travellers, Evictions and Oppression at Cafe Kino: 108 Stokes Croft

Thursday 1st March: Riots and Racism at Malcolm X Centre: 141 City Road St Pauls

CUBE Cinema WEEKEND

Friday 2nd March Launch Event 7:30pm

A Times Comes: The Story of the Kingsnorth Six (Nick Broomfield, 2009, UK, 20min)

Paths Through Utopias (John Jordan & Isabelle Freemeaux, 2011, UK and France, 109 min)

Saturday 3rd March (whole day of workshops and films)

10am -12 am VisionOntv: Making News Roadshow

2pm - 4:30pm Video-activism in Britain:

5pm - 7:30pm The Cheviot, The Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (John McKenzie, 1974, UK, 90 min)

8pm - 10pm You’ve Been Trumped (Anthony Baxter, UK, 2011, 115min), plus director Q+A

10pm onwards party at the cube with Occasional Cinema shorts and music videos

Sunday 4th March - Another full day of good stuff ath the Cube

11am - 1pm Paul O’Connor presentation on Undercurrents

2pm - 4:30pm Introduction to Dogwoof followed by screening of The End of the Line

5pm - 7:30pm Radical Short Films

8pm - 10 pm De Nadie/No One (Tin Dirdamal, 2006, Mexico, 82min)

Get tickets here