Pressure — 50th Anniversary Screening
- Director
- Horace Ové
- Origin
- UK
- Runtime
- Feature · + 3 shorts
- Venue
- Lex 2, Old Kent Road, Southwark, London
- Date
- Fri Oct 30 · 17:00 & 19:00
Fifty years on, Pressure (1975) — the first British feature film directed by a Black director — still burns. Horace Ové's landmark portrait of a young man ground down by 1970s London returns for a 50th anniversary screening, paired with three shorts extending the conversation and a virtual talkback with his son, Zac Ové.
Sausage Rolls & Jollof Rice
Benjamin Turner · UK · 2025 · 18m 33s
A food-and-friendship short about two cultures sharing a plate and a joke on a British high street — identity served warm.
Tambu
Laurie Lambert · Jamaica · 2026 · 22m 59s
Laurie Lambert's short reaches for the tambu — the drum, the dance, the memory — and the Caribbean rhythms that refuse to be silenced.
Ugly. Afro Hair
Chinwe Kalu Uma · UK · 2025 · 25m 43s
A candid short unearthing the shame, pride and politics braided into Afro hair and the identities it carries.
Horace Ové
Director · Pressure
Trinidadian-British filmmaker and the father of Black British cinema, whose Pressure (1975) broke the ground a whole generation walks.
Zac Ové
Guest · Virtual Talkback
Trinidadian-British artist and filmmaker, son of Horace Ové, whose sculpture and film work extends his father's diasporic vision.
Virtual talkback with Zac Ové