Film Tottenham celebrates 100 years of community cinema

Film Tottenham is taking part in a nationwide festival of community cinema running from October – December 2025, showcasing the inspirational and innovative programming of volunteer-led cinemas over the past 100 years.

Cinema For All will lead the way in commemorating this incredible milestone with a dynamic program focused on film education, networking, and promotion.

We are proud to have been supported by "Cinema For All" to screen the line up below!

We will be screening the films on a projector screen in the Beehive and aim to show each film with subtitles.
You can find synopsis for each film further below.

Screening venue: The Beehive, Tottenham

Each film screening is £3 plus eventbrite fees

Concessions are £2.50 plus eventbrite fees

Here is the line up:

December:

Monday 8th December: 4pm - The Pearl Button (2015)

Monday 8th December: 6.15pm - Winners (2022)

Monday 8th December: 7.45pm - Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

Sunday 14th December: 7:45pm - Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Monday 15th December: 4pm - Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-blaché (2018)

Monday 15th December: 6.15pm - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Monday 15th December: 7.45pm - Night of the Kings (2020)

Tuesday 16th December: 7.30pm - Cure (1997)

Sunday 21st December: 7.30pm - Singin In The Rain (1952)

Previously screened:

Sunday 19th October: 7.30pm - A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Thursday 23rd October: 7.30pm - Bend It Like Beckham (2002) with a screening of short film "Back of the net" and a Q and A with writer and performer Ella Dorma-Gajic

Sunday 26th October: 7.30pm - Peeping Tom (1960)

Monday 3rd November: 7.30pm - Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Wednesday 5th November: 7.30pm - Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

Sunday 9th November: 7.30pm - Moonlight (2016)

Monday 10th November: 7.30pm - Notorious (1946)

Thursday 13th November: 7:30pm - Singin In The Rain (1952)

Monday 24th November: 3.45pm - Do The Right Thing (1989)

Monday 24th November: 6pm - Drylongso (1998)

Monday 24th November: 8pm - Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Thursday 27th November: 7:30pm - Cure (1997)

Monday 1st December: 5.45pm - Steamboat Bill JR (1928)

Monday 1st December: 7pm - Waxworks (1924)

Sunday 7th December: 7.30pm - Muriel's Wedding (1994)

Join us at The Beehive Pub, Tottenham. We are in the function room behind the main bar.

Screening venue: The Beehive Pub, Stoneleigh Road, London N17 9JW

Our screenings are for 18+ only.

Maximum of 2 tickets per person.

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Refunds policy: We don't refund eventbrite fees.

We will take photographs of the event for publicity but if you do not wish to be in a photo just let us know on the day.

A Clockwork Orange

Director:Stanley Kubrick

Cast:Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

Running Time:136 mins

Set in a dystopian near-future Britain, Clockwork Orange follows a gang of brutal teenage delinquents led by Alex (Malcolm McDowell) whose obsession with ‘ultra-violence’ drives them to theft, M**der and sexual assault. Based on the Anthony Burgess novel, the film features a soundtrack by pioneer Wendy Carlos of electronic arrangements of classical music by Beethoven, Rossini and Elgar.

*Please note the film features depictions of graphic violence and sexual assault.
Bend It Like Beckham

Director:Gurinder Chadha

Cast:Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Myers

Running Time:108 mins
Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) dreams of playing professional football, but her parents have other plans for her - a law degree and a marriage…. soon. Jules, a white striker on the local (Keira Knightley), spots Jess playing football and invites her to join, putting Jess on a different path to her family.

Peeping Tom

Director:Michael Powell

Cast:Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey

Running Time:101 mins
Michael Powell’s groundbreaking The film's controversial subject matter and its extremely harsh reception by critics had a severely negative impact on Powell's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece.

Funeral Parade of Roses

Director:Toshio Matsumoto

Cast:Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô

Running Time:105 mins
Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama art film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from Oedipus Rex and set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo. It stars Peter as the protagonist, a young transgender woman, and features Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshio Tsuchiya and Emiko Azuma. A product of the Japanese New Wave, the film beautifully combines elements of arthouse, drama and documentary.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Director:Tsai Ming-Liang

Cast:Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao

Running Time:82 mins
Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a 2003 Taiwanese comedy-drama, slow cinema film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It shows the staff and patrons of a dying cinema, which screens the 1967 film Dragon Inn at its final performance before shuttering forever.

Moonlight

Director:Barry Jenkins

Cast:Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monae

Running Time:106 mins
Instantly heralded as a modern masterpiece, Barry Jenkins’ stunning three-part story of queer identity is both a technical and an emotional marvel. The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. It explores the difficulties he faces with his identity as a Black homosexual man, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up. Featuring incredible performances from the entire cast, and bringing the wonderful Mahershala Ali to global attention, now a 2-time Oscar winner.

Notorious

Director:Alfred Hitchcock

Cast:Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

Running Time:101 mins
After the war, the burgeoning film society sector began to blossom once again and looked to form a collective to represent their interests, to share knowledge and to manage the business of print transport. The British Federation of Film Societies, now known as Cinema For All, was born.

Singin In The Rain

Director:Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

Cast:Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Running Time:103 mins

The most beautiful, technicolour extravaganza depicting the business of making movies ever made. Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’ Connor star as performers caught up in the transition from silent films to era of talkies. Debbie Reynolds was a friend to the film society movement, having presented the winners with their certificates at the Film Society of the Year Awards at the BFI Southbank in the late 1980s.

Do The Right Thing

Director: Spike Lee

Cast: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito

Running Time: 120 mins

On the hottest day of the year on a street in Brooklyn, hate and bigotry simmer in the heat – exploding towards inescapable violence, injustice and all too familiar pain for the neighbourhood’s residents

Drylongso

Director: Cauleen Smith

Cast: Toby Smith, April Barnett, Salim Akil, Will Power, Channel Schafer

Running Time: 86 mins

An American coming-of-age drama, Drylonso centres on a young black photography student in Oakland, California who begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct. The title is derived from the Gullah word for ‘ordinary.’

Cure

Director:Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast:Kôji Yakusho

Running Time:111 mins

Cited by South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho as one film as one of the greatest of all time, and an influence on his own Memories of M**der, Cure is Japanese neo-noir psychological horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each victim. Dazed, the murderer is found each time near the victim with a full memory of the crime, but no idea why they did it.

Night of the Kings

Director:Philippe Lacôte

Cast:Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Steve Tientcheu, Bakary Koné

Running Time:93 mins
A young man is sent to ‘La Maca’, a Pr*son of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new ‘Roman’ and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

The Pearl Button

Director:Patricio Guzmán

Cast:Patricio Guzmán, Raúl Zurita

Running Time:82 mins
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film by Patricio Guzmán, following up from his acclaimed documentary drama Nostalgia For the Light.
The film explores themes such as memory the past, recording some of the last surviving members of the original Alacalufe and Yaghan tribes. Unlike Guzman’s previous films, Nostalgia for the Light does not focus solely on Chile's past under Augusto Pinochet. The title was partly inspired by a shirt button discovered during a 2004 investigation by Chilean judge Juan Guzmán on a length of rail used to weigh the bodies of Pinochet's victims dumped in the sea, but also named partly for the button that Yaghan native Jemmy Button was named for when taken aboard HMS Beagle in 1830.

Cinema Paradiso

Director:Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast:Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili

Running Time:124 mins
Set in a small Sicilian town, Cinema Paradiso centres on the friendship between a young boy and an aging projectionist who works at the local cinema and teaches him the ropes.

Winners

Director:Hassan Nazer

Cast:Reza Naji, Hossein Abedini, Parsa Maghami

Running Time:85 mins
In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue – the Oscar belonging to director Asghar Farhadi for his 2017 film The Salesman. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help reunite the statue with its owner.

Steamboat Bill JR

Director:Buster Keaton

Cast:Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner

Running Time:71 mins
In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi River town.

Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-blanché

Director:Pamela B. Green

Cast:Alice Guy, Richard Abel, Marc Abraham

Running Time:103 mins
Alice Guy-Blache was a hugely important pioneer of early cinema and the first woman to direct a feature film. She was a figure admired by Sergei Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock, a prolific director, screenwriter, producer and pioneering studio chief who helped invent modern movie-making. The notice ‘Be Natural’ on the wall of her studio in New Jersey was a testament to her belief that, however stylised and generic, acting and films in general should not be over-the-top, but rooted in reality.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Director:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast:Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin

Running Time:93 mins
One of Fassbinder's most powerful works and considered a masterpiece by critics and audiences alike, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul follows a romance that develops between Emmi, an elderly German woman, and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany. Whilst paying homage to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the film also serves as an unflinching look at German society and its attitude to migrants, and features what Peter Bradshaw called ‘The most purely lovable characters I have ever seen on a movie screen.’

Waxworks

Director:Paul Leni

Cast:Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss

Running Time:81 mins
The film is a silent anthology linked by a plot thread about a writer who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in order to boost business. The film, made during the Weimar Republic years, is said to have served as a ‘showreel’ for its makers and stars to escape Nazi oppression and flee to Hollywood.

*Please note that this film involves insensitive cultural depictions

Muriel's Wedding

Director:P.J. Hogan

Cast:Toni Collette, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond

Running Time:101 mins
Muriel (Toni Collete) is stuck in Porpoise Spit, a small Australian town where her local politician father makes her feel worthless whilst flaunting his mistress in his family’s face. Determined to leave behind her disrespected and depressed mother, her indifferent siblings and her nasty friends, Muriel takes destiny into her own hands. She sets off with her treasured ABBA cassettes in search the most perfect wedding – key to showing those at home that she’s making it in life.

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