For November's Feminist Fightback Film Club, we'll be screening 12th and Delaware: a documentary revolving around a 'pregnancy care centre' set up across the road from an abortion clinic in suburban Florida. Pregnancy care centres/crisis centres are unregulated clinics set up to look like providers of medical advice for pregnant women, with the aim of […]

For January's Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, jointly and in solidarity with the group, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. United In Anger is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage which puts the audience on the ground with the activists, and remarkably […]

This month, Feminist Fightback Film Club will be screening Eyes of the Rainbow, Gloria Rolanda's 1997 documentary about the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur. There will be a post-screening discussion. Drinks and dancing to follow. Come and join us for this anti-Valentine's day special. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 […]

Virginie Despentes' 2009 documentary, Mutantes (Punk Porn Feminism), provides a context for the Post Porn movement (Punk Porn Feminism) which seeks to re-frame pornography as a creative activity that constructs and deconstructs ideas of gender, power, politics and equality. The documentary aims to provide answers to the understanding of porn from the perspective of pro-sex […]

Feminist Fightback film club is delighted to have the opportunity to screen 2 amazing short documentaries on the Friday 13th November from 7:30pm at the Common House Rebel Menopause by Adele Tulli : Rebel Menopause is the intimate portrait of Therese Clerc, a french 85 years old woman and a militant feminist whose passion for […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club presents... Je ne suis pas féministe mais Friday 18th March, 7.30-10pm. We'll be screening Sylvie Tissot and Florence Tissot's 2015 documentary about the political life of the French feminist Christine Delphy. The film will be followed by a discussion. Snacks available and we will again have the cheapest bar in East […]

'A stage somewhere in Europe: naked women, fake blood, masturbation and screaming' Too Much Pussy! is the roving camera work of French director Emilie Jouvet as she follows a group of queer performance artists on their Queer X Show tour around Europe, portraying a slice of the queer/feminist/punk porn underground and at the same time […]

A different, better USA, to the one that Donald Trump represents. Harlan County USA is Barbara Kopple's powerful 1976 documentary of a coal-mining strike in Kentucky. Years in the making, the film documents the extreme hardship of a community – women and men – fighting for decent wages, safety, the right to organise and the […]

Join Feminist Fightback for a festive screening of The Punk Singer, a film about Bikini Kill/Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna. As it's the last screening before Christmas, we'll be doing some dancing afterwards to some riot grrl classics and pop bangers. Say a not very fond farewell to 2016 with us! Entry is a suggested […]

Feminist Fightback present 'Yo Decido: El Tren De La Liberta' (I Decide: The Train of Freedom). In 2013. the Spanish government proposed a radically restrictive change to abortion legislation. Huge protests were held around Spain, with solidarity demos across Europe. This film tells the story of the movement that came together to oppose this threat […]

Ovarian Psycos is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from the Eastside of Los Angeles who confront injustice, build community, and redefine identity through a raucous, irreverently named bicycle crew: The Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade. Through the personal stories of the crew’s rabble-rousing founder, Xela de la X, activist, […]

Join Feminist Fightback and United Voices of the World union, whose members have been on strike at LSE. We're screening Waging a Living in London, a film about when UVW members won wage increases for cleaners at the Barbican. We'll also have one of the current LSE strikers talking about the current action, and some […]

For this month's film club, we will be screening the documentary 'I Flew, You Stayed', a personal documentary by a Turkish Kurdish film maker who will be introducing the film. For those who would like to, we will also be hosting our usual political discussion on the films afterwards on Rojava, the oppression of the […]

Feminist Fightback present our Halloween screening of Teeth! Dawn, a teenager who has vowed to remain a virgin until marriage, discovers that her body hides a secret weapon which allows her to exact bloody revenge on men who sexually assault her. Please note, the film contains multiple scenes of sexual assault/rape. You are welcome to […]

Turup (Checkmate) takes as its backdrop the roadside chess matches of working-class communities in Chakki Chouraha, a neighbourhood in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Whilst it’s men who dominate the chess games, the film tells the intertwined stories of three women: a domestic worker named Monika; Neelima, a former journalist struggling with married life; […]

In solidarity with and support of the Stansted Defendants, Feminist Fightback will be screening Glasgow Girls for March film club. Glasgow Girls is the true story of young migrant women who, when their friend faced detention and deportation, mobilised their community to fight the Home Office and win. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g94qPAwP84 Doors open 7.30pm Tickets: […]

"Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls." Criminal Queers is a fictional film by Chris Vargas and Eric E. Stanley which explores how trans and queers struggles intersect with prisoner struggles and with joy and rage pictures "how to abolish the multiple ways our […]

This month's Feminist Fightback film is a french coming of age drama that discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class.

Join us for a special screening of Robin Campillo's 120 Beats Per Minute (2017), which reimagines the lives of AIDS activists in Paris in the 1990s. The film centres on the direct action group ACT UP Paris, and on the love and struggle of its members. We are very excited that a speaker from ACT […]

Join us for a special screening of Agnes Varda’s 1976 feminist musical that follows the lives of two women and the collective struggle to legalise contraception and abortion. A discussion will follow the screening. Suggested donations £2/3/5 un/low/higher waged. Drinks and snacks available.

Join us for a screening of Houda Benyamina's brilliant debut feature, dubbed a ‘feminist Scarface’, following a teenage girl from a Paris banlieu’s devastating attempts to overcome poverty and her close friendship with her best friend. We will have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Doors open at 7pm. Suggested […]

In the month of International Women's Day, Feminist Fightback and London IWW are showing Year of the Beaver, a film about the Grunwick Strike of 1976. The strike at the Grunwick photographic processing plant, with a workforce predominated by Asian women, lasted for 2 years. Year of the Beaver is focused on the experiences of […]

Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. We will be showing the pioneering first feature from Menelik Shabazz, one of the most significant artists […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Persepolis Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Love and Revolution Two months since the election of the conservative government in Greece, and repression of worker’s rights and autonomous initiatives has begun. Police have invaded the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens and have started shutting down the migrant solidarity squats, sending migrants to detention centres and arresting squatters. […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: PRIDE PRIDE is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mine workers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. The film will be […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: tbc Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Doors open at 7pm. Suggested donation £2 unwaged/ £3 low waged/ […]

In-person screening of Ye Lo Bayaan Humare, followed by a Q & A with the director, Uma Chakravarti, who will join us from India via Zoom. Ye Lo Bayaan Humare | And We Were There 1967-1977 Hindi/Bengali/English | 142 mins (in 2 parts) | 2021 Directed by Uma Chakravarti This is a film about the […]

We are thrilled to be re-starting our bi-monthly film show and discussion at a new location with a screening of Rebel Dykes. Rebel Dykes is a rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London. The unheard story of a community of dykes who met doing art, music, politics and sex, and how they went on to change […]

For this month's film screening we will be having a Halloween themed night and showing GINGERSNAPS (2000, 1h48mins, John Fawcett). Feel free to participate in the theme. This cult horror film is about two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighbourhood, who must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by […]

On the lead up to Christmas we will be showing a feel good comedy based on the true story of feminist protests against the 1970 Miss World competition's London final.   The 1970 Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by the American comedian Bob Hope. At that time Miss World was the most-watched TV show in the world with […]

This month we will be showing a documentary about events in 1970s that are once again topical. The Janes is a documentary from directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes that tells the story of The Jane Collective, which helped thousands of women obtain abortions in the US when they were still illegal in the late 1960s and […]

Join Feminist Fightback for our Easter film showing as we show All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, 122min) Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, […]

Join Feminist Fightback for our May film showing as we show Her Job (2018, 90mins) by Nikos Labôt. In this slow-burning film about sexism and female emancipation, Panayiota is an illiterate housewife who gets her first job as a cleaner. Over time, she rises up the ranks and gains her family respect; but danger looms […]