Playing Away
- Director
- Horace Ové
- Origin
- UK
- Runtime
- 100 min · + shorts 29m 33s
- Venue
- Kensington Library, London
- Date
- Sept 26 · 14:00
Horace Ové's 1987 culture-clash comedy brings a visiting West Indian cricket team to a sleepy Suffolk village, where pitches, politeness and preconceptions collide over a single weekend match. Warm, barbed and faintly elegiac, it measures the distance between two Englands — the one imagined at home and the one waiting at the boundary. A founding text of Black British cinema, still startlingly current.
Ackee and Saltfish
Jasmin Nunes · UK · 2025 · 15m 58s
A sharp-witted kitchen-table short tracing friendship, food and the small daily negotiations of diasporic life, served with saltfish and perfect comic timing.
Breath Of Another
Sheridan Seraphin · UK · 2024 · 13m 35s
An intimate short on intimacy itself — the risk and release of letting another person's breath become your own.
Horace Ové
Director · Playing Away
Trinidadian-British filmmaker widely regarded as the father of Black British cinema, director of Pressure (1975) and a lifelong chronicler of diasporic life.
Jasmin Nunes
Director · Ackee and Saltfish
London-based filmmaker whose intimate shorts centre Caribbean-British women, food, friendship and the textures of everyday diasporic belonging.
Sheridan Seraphin
Director · Breath Of Another
British filmmaker whose short-form work explores intimacy, tenderness and the quiet textures of Black British life.
Talkback with Sheridan Seraphin, with a possible pre-recorded contribution from Jasmin Nunes