2025 Rage & rampage SUMMER schedule

JUNE 2025

YOUNG SOUL REBELS

Isaac Julien | U.K., Germany, France (1991) | English, 105 mins | Starring Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Sophie Okonedo

Young soul DJ Chris becomes implicated in a murder. Thei film is set in 1977, during the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Together with his partner Caz, Chris, a young black London DJ, runs pirate radio station Soul Patrol from an East End garage. When a mutual friend is murdered whilst cruising in a London park, Chris is arrested for the murder.

The debut feature film from director Isaac Julien, Young Soul Rebels is a fascinating look at British culture in the late 1970s. Read more and see more BTS on Isaac’s website.

July 2025

DRYLONGSO

Cauleen Smith | U.S. (1998) | English & Gullah, 82 mins | Starring Starring Toby Smith, April Barnett, Will Power

A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s DRYLONGSO embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland, California, art student Pica (Toby Smith) attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship (April Barnett) and experiencing love, heartbreak, and the everyday threat of violence. Capturing the vibrant community spirit of Oakland in the nineties, Smith crafts both a rare cinematic celebration of Black female creativity and a moving elegy for a generation of lost African American men.