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1 am in the Morning
Director Anna Guseva
Inspired by Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello, evolving dance duets move through light and shadow, transforming breath, gesture and sound into a meditation on presence and becoming.
Close-Up Cinema ProgrammeThursday 24 September · 4:40–6:20pm← Full programme
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Close-Up Cinema · Includes Q&A
Acts of Resistance
Thursday 24 September 2026 · 4:40–6:20pm
From forbidden love and private grief to poverty, prejudice and social constraint, these films explore the ways people resist what threatens to define them through humour, imagination, art and acts of personal courage.
Total film runtime1:29:13
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Fruity
Director James Baines
Fruity follows Daniel, a sharp-eyed pub-floor tactician who lets others gamble and uses their losses to calculate his own winning moment.
03
For the Love of Laurie
Director Joseph McCawley
In a bid to express his feelings to his long-time crush, an unpolished Glaswegian tradesman opts to try his hand at spoken-word poetry.
04
Run Club
Director Lauren Lyle
Run Club follows Scott on a desperate cross-country journey, seemingly to win back his ex, only to reveal that he is running from an unbearable grief he cannot face.
05
A Moment of Reverence
Director Olivia West Alvarez
In a single, unbroken shot, a blind woman experiences an unseen dance through music and poetic audio description, revealing movement as something not only seen, but felt.
06
Keep
Director Charlie Cracknell
As debt collectors close in, a young boy steals what’s left of his home.
07
MyMan: An Origin Story
Directors Kenton Jordan Thomas and Jamie Swaby
MyMan is an autobiographical tale from an alternate timeline, where a young man’s discovery of his superpowers—or super imagination—becomes his escape from the harsh truths of Black teenage life amidst knife crime and gang culture.
08
Between Breath & Silence
Director Nicole Pott
Set across one day, Tom keeps vigil beside his dying father, confronting the love, guilt and unspoken truths between them.
09
Death of Fles
Director Zechen Huang
This is a story about the death of Fles.
10
Spell
Director Spartakus Santiago
Haunted by rejection and low self-esteem, a young Black gay man confronts his pain and, when faced with death, chooses rebirth.
Close-Up Cinema · Shoreditch
Ten films.
One shared act of courage.
Thursday 24 September 2026
4:40–6:20pm · Includes filmmaker Q&A
Close-Up Cinema
97 Sclater Street
London E1 6HR
Doors open before the advertised start time. Please arrive early to take your seat.
Block B · Acts of ResistanceThursday 24 September · 4:40pm
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