Thursday 26th June 2025 | An Our Version Media and Harbour Lights Picturehouse event
New venue, same powerful ethos: showing Black British films that aren’t the usual negative narratives and stereotypes.
Join Our Version Media and Harbour Lights Picturehouse for the relaunch of our Black In Focus film nights. Reception and followed by the film, Hard Truths.
About the film: Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way.
Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister Chantal (Michele Austin) is a single mother, her life brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. But things between the two of them come to a head over the course of one Mother’s Day weekend.
Black In Focus, Southampton’s only Black British Film (genre) nights, are billed as a refreshing change to the negative black narratives often shown by big cinema. There’s just one rule for the films we show: no gratuitous black trauma! That means no films centred on gang violence, drugs, slavery or the negative black storylines that mainstream cinemas love to show.
Date and time: Thursday 26th June 2025, 6:00pm
Welcome and relaunch at 6:00pm. Film starts at 6:45pm.
Venue: Harbour Lights Picturehouse, Ocean Village, Southampton SO14 3TL
Tickets: £12.55 plus booking fee https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/017/HO00016270/black-in-focus-presents-hard-truths
