Event type: Film

Directed by Natalie Rae, Daughters (2024) follows four young girls as they prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, part of a unique fatherhood programme inside a Washington, DC jail. The film explores themes of family, resilience, and connection under challenging circumstances.

Daughters was selected by artist Amber Akaunu, who was drawn to its powerful exploration of themes that resonate deeply and mirror those central to her own work.

Akaunu is currently exhibiting at Bluecoat as part of the Liverpool Biennial with her “incredibly touching” and “powerful” film, Dear Othermother.

Inspired by the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” Dear Othermother offers a deeply personal reflection on single motherhood in Toxteth, an area of Liverpool where one in six households are headed by a single parent.

1hr47minRecommended for ages 13+

Thu 24 July, 6pmFree, booking required

The film tells the redemptive story of how Marvin Booker, a black, homeless, street preacher was beaten to death by five Denver jail guards for wanting to get his shoes. It then covers Marvin’s beautiful, devout, family from Memphis. Their two incredible civil rights attorneys in Denver. And, clergy, activists, and communities from both cities, who sought to restore Marvin’s constitutional rights in a groundbreaking 2014 federal civil rights jury trial.

Proceedings go to Denver Documentary Society that furthers the outreach and impact of documentaries on humanity. Denver Documentary Society stands for the underdog, independent filmmaking, civil rights, social justice, the environment, music and resilience.

LAAF are delighted to present Archiving Nostalgia, a film screening featuring two short films and a feature length documentary.

This event showcases contemporary Arab films from Lebanon, Tunisia, and Algeria that reflect on nostalgia as both a thematic and aesthetic tool, all creating powerful archives of personal and collective memory. The screening will be followed by an in-person panel discussion on Arab cinema archiving.

Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00.

Please note that doors open 30 minutes before the screening and the programme will begin promptly at the listed time.

Venue:

FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ

The most exciting film quiz in Liverpool… in a theatre.

Join Reel Tours on the third Thursday of every month downstairs in the Everyman to test your cinematic knowledge in the most exciting film quiz in Liverpool… in a theatre.

Whatever your area of expertise, be it Golden Age Hollywood, Foreign flicks or the most recent Blockbusters, we cover all decades, genres and talent. There are also some lovely prizes which could be yours, your own, your precious.

Reel Tours is your cinematic map of the world. We provide walking tours to the many filming locations in Liverpool as well as hosting numerous other events in the region, such as interactive quizzes, film screenings, talks & much more.

• £3 per-person• Teams up to 6 members• 8pm start (doors from 7.30pm, first come, first served)

reeltours.co.uk 

Fringe Flicks is a quarterly underground short film night curated by artist-led collective People Versus TV (PVTV), showcasing strange, subversive, and experimental cinema from around the world.

The July edition kicks off Season 3 with Reality+ — a bold, darkly comic sci-fi short by Coralie Fargeat, acclaimed writer-director of The Substance and Revenge. Originally released in 2014, Reality+ explores identity, artificial perfection and the violence of self-improvement culture, and feels eerily prescient in light of her recent breakout success. It’s the perfect centrepiece for a night of weird, visionary cinema.

The full programme is loosely themed around “Altered Selves”, featuring 10 shorts that explore identity, transformation, and perception — with work from Liverpool, India, China, Belgium, and the USA.

Expect esoteric horror, poetic dreams, neurodivergent voices, surreal detours, and a documentary written entirely by pigeons.

Events are Pay What You Can. You can vote in the People’s Choice Award, and a limited edition alternative film poster by local artist Rhonda Davies will be available on the night.

Another British Gem !This time, revisiting one of Britain’s best apocalyptic horror films of the last few decades before the third installment 28 Years Later is released later in the month.

28 DAYS LATER (2002) BY DANNY BOYLE

SYNOPSISA group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with the “Rage” virus from a medical research lab. When London bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma a month later, he finds his city deserted. On the run from the zombie-like victims of the Rage, Jim stumbles upon a group of survivors, including Selena (Naomie Harris) and cab driver Frank (Brendan Gleeson). He joins them on a perilous journey to what he hopes will be a safe future..​Tea, coffee and popcorn included with ticket!Timings:DOORS: 7pmFILM + INTERMISSION:  7:30pmEND: 9:15pmAccessibility info:Kitty’s Laundrette is step-free and has a disabled toilet. Film screened with closed captions unless mentioned, and a midway toilet break.

1972, New York. In John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s apartment, the TV is permanently on, acting as a ‘window to the world’.

Through their television this inventive documentary explores the America of that time, the Lennons’ evolving politics and their complex personal life as they search for Yoko’s estranged daughter Kyoko against the backdrop of the Nixon-McGovern election. Featuring previously unheard phone recordings and music from John’s only post-Beatles concert, it reveals the world that John and Yoko inhabited and the couple’s relevance, which still stands today.