This powerful and illuminating new documentary from Black Power Mixtape director Goran Hugo Olsson looks at the often violent struggles that would lead to the decolonisation of Africa in the 60s and 70s. Like his previous film, Olsson uses a wealth of 16mm footage, much of it previously unseen, to illustrate a variety of different African struggles - from an Angolan night raid, to a miner's strike in Liberia, a woman with a hacked off arm and a hopeful interview with a then-young Robert Mugabe - it shows the fury of a continent in crisis. This extraordinary material has been combined with the words of anticolonialist social theorist Frantz Fanon, whose 1961 text The Wretched of the Earth (strikingly narrated by singer Lauryn Hill) provides the framework for the film. A passionate call to arms, Concerning Violence is a timely and vital contribution toward building a better world for the future.

Conversations About Cinema

Dr Jacqueline Maingard, Reader in Film at the University of Bristol, will introduce the 18:10 screening of the film on Mon 8 Dec and will lead an informal discussion on the film after the screening, before moving in to the Café/Bar from 20:00. A ticket for this screening will give you 10% off drinks and items from our shared menu. So grab a drink or something to eat and let us know your thoughts on Concerning Violence with other members of the audience...

• The evening screening of Concerning Violence on Tue 9 Dec is part of our Cinébites deal: get a cinema ticket, veggie or meat gnocchi, and a drink (wine/beer or soft drink) for only £15.

Ticket prices: Screenings before 16:00: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions. Screenings after 16:00: £8.00 full / £6.50 concessions.

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