WFF: Pariah

Join us for our fifth pop-up event - Pariah: An Intro to Queer Cinema. Pariah follows the story of Alike, a 17 year old black teenager starting her journey into embracing her identity as a lesbian whilst juggling the minefields of friendship, heartbreak and a family that doesn’t understand her.

As Dee Rees’ debut feature film, Pariah took five years to receive funding to be able to complete the project and at the time of release (2011) was one of very few films that showed a coming of age story of a young black queer person.

Through this event we will be looking at how queer cinema has been silenced over the years, and asking why it is still so difficult to see non-white queer stories on screen.

With support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK.