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NB: This screening is at Broadway Cinema
The film tells the amazing story of Sir Roger Bannister’s grandson Barney Townsend, and his team’s attempt at the World Human Powered Vehicle land speed record at Battle Mountain Nevada, which stands at an eye watering 89.5 mph. Think Cool Runnings meets F1 Drive to Survive as Barney and the team tackle a missing bike, high speed crashes, team member departures, serious design flaws and injury. It is a story of perseverance beyond limits and of community, as the team discover that their competitors can also be their greatest allies.
More info about the project:
https://iconictv.co.uk/thefastestbicycle/
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When the British colonised Kenya, they took control of prime tea-growing land that still supplies the global market today. As a local Kenyan journalist investigates a legal battle over stolen ancestral land, dark secrets are exposed and ongoing abuses on plantations run by major multinationals become clear.
Set against the beauty and richness of the landscape, Kikuyu Land is a poetic, stunningly cinematic dive into a complex legacy that refuses to stay buried.
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The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission – bringing the best cycling short films from around the world together for you!
Its 2026 collection will be raising the curtains on a truly breath-taking range of short cycling movies that are original, informative, entertaining, and most importantly of all - inspirational.
All celebrate the fun, the adventure, and joy that cycling enables, with human-powered stories at the forefront of what The Big Bike Film Night offers.
ALL Bikes, ALL Terrains, ALL GOOD!!!
This year’s treasure chest of films includes:
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A love letter to nature created on Super 8 by people connecting across the world. A global community captures intimate moments of nature using shared cameras, weaving their personal observations into a stunning visual tapestry that celebrates Earth's raw beauty.
We’re invited on a journey across 25 different countries, with people embracing both abundance and loss, to feel a sense of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, human and non-human. Celebrating all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing.
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Join us at Nottingham Central Library for a screening of Hope Is a Word, a documentary about poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey and the power of poetry as a tool for environmental resistance in Nigeria's Niger Delta!
This screening is part of the Green Libraries Week programme, celebrating the role libraries play in environmental awareness and community action.
Oil extraction has ravaged the Niger Delta for decades, bringing violence and division. Poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey refuses to lose hope, and invites a group of young people to write with him. In that safe space, they begin to tell their own stories through poetry, finding a way to heal and a weapon for change.
After a lifetime of resistance, Nnimmo wonders: can they carry on the struggle?
Nnimmo Bassey will join us virtually from Nigeria for a short Q&A after the screening!
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Every day, thousands of dairy calves are separated from their mothers at birth. A Dairy Story follows a husband-and-wife team as they risk everything to prove there's another way.
Over 20 years David and Wilma transformed Rainton Farm from a conventional family dairy farm to organic, then regenerative, and now a pioneering nature-based cow-with-calf dairy system.
A Dairy Story shows how changing a farming system changes everything; from the lives of the animals to the wellbeing of the farmers, and perhaps even the future of dairy farming itself.
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A filmmaker gets more than he bargained for when his girlfriend is part of starting one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. We, The Hated tells the inside story of how a group of every-day concerned citizens hatch a contentious plan of civil disobedience to wake the country up to the climate emergency. And what the government does to shut them down. As irreversible climate tipping points loom and their controversial protests face mounting repression, four activists - Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane - must weigh the personal cost of action against the existential stakes of inaction.
An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.
The director Rich Felgate is joining us for a discussion and Q&A after the screening!
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Brian Tovey may be the last traditional poacher in England, the closest thing the country might have to an indigenous person living off the land.
An antihero of conservation and nature, Brian’s outlook is anti-establishment and his way of life is almost off-grid, tucked away in a village on the edge of the English Cotswolds. He roams his surrounding fields and woods illegally hunting for game on private estates belonging to the big land-owners – Earls, Lords, Duchesses and farmers, an almost ethereal existence that clings to the age-old conflict between common and forest Law.
‘The Last English Poacher’ is an elegy to England’s changing rural communities, and our diminishing connection to the land. What can we learn from an outcast? A man who doesn’t love the animals he kills for food, but respects them and knows them better than most. This unconventional way of life is slipping away, and with it an intimate knowledge and perspective on a wilder way of living.
Folks Who Roam (16'')
Folk Who Roam is a lyrical short documentary that follows violin maker Emma Hardy as she crafts a unique instrument inspired by England’s landscapes and the growing movement for greater access to the countryside.
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