Black History Month 2026 at GFT

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Black History Month 2026 at GFT

October 2026

A collaboration with Glasgow Film Theatre and CRER (Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights) celebrating Black History Month through feature films, documentary and discussion.

Personal Problems and Intoduction – 3 Occtober, 2026

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Bill Gunn’s Personal Problems is the definitive cinematic blueprint for the Black ordinary.

A legendary meta-soap opera that has maintained a devoted underground following since 198, it captures the improvisational heat of Harlem life on gritty U-matic video to explore what Ishmael Reed calls the “triteness of everyday life.”

Gunn and Reed bypassed 1980s gatekeepers to create a work that finds the revolutionary within the familiar through a real Black middle class navigating the raw complexities of sickness, love, and work.

Screening as part of Black History Month programme at GFT

Pressure plus shorts an Q & A hursday 15 October, 7.40 p.m.

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The first feature film directed by a Black British filmmaker, Horace Ové’s Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush generation with their first son, now part of the Black Power Movement, to their younger British-born son Tony (Herbert Norville), who is trying to find his place between the two cultures. As he leaves school and encounters prejudice on individual and institutional levels, Tony struggles to find acceptance in the country he grew up in yet has no Caribbean home he can dream of returning to. Unemployed and caught between an aspirational mother and a radical older brother, he drifts away from school friends and towards Black Power politics.

The 4K restoration has been undertaken by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, with additional thanks to the BFI Philanthropy ‘Pioneers of Black British Filmmaking consortium’.

Q&A details to be confirmed!

Screening as part of GFT’s Black History Month programme.

TCB – The Toni Cade Barbara School of Organising, Saturday 17 October, 3 p.m.

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Toni Cade Bambara (1939 – 1995) was a writer, activist and cultural worker whose beautiful works, including The Black Woman (1970), Gorilla, My Love (1972), The Salt Eaters (1980), W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996) and Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999) helped define and document Black life in all its fullness. Her ways of knowing and being continue to shape and inspire liberation, art and education.

TCB: The Toni Cade School of Organizing is a biography of Toni Cade Bambara, told by those who knew, worked and encountered her.

The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organising, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Through archival footage, contemporary interviews, and scenes from community classrooms and organizing spaces, the film situates Bambara’s legacy as a living blueprint for collective liberation.

This screening is presented by Voodoo Visions Film Club and Inclinations Film Club, followed by an informal discussion and sharing at Garnethill Multicultural Centre. Everyone is welcome.

Screening as part of GFT’s Black History Month programme.

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