This special double bill will be a screening of Ben Sharrock's LIMBO (2020) alongside the short film ILL FARES THE LAND (2023)
Tickets for this event are free but if you'd like to support the work of Pixida Films, HIAS+JCORE and The Lexi Cinema please do make use of the £5 and £10 ticket price options.
This screening creates a rare space where statistics are transformed into stories, and policy becomes intimate. In bringing these films together, we confront the corrosive effects that rising anti-migrant sentiment and right-wing extremism have on us all. These are no longer distant political abstractions, but forces that reverberate through entire communities. We witness how limbo is created as fear reshapes relationships, and imaginations. Lived experience echoes a person’s story, from where they are from to the way they are treated when they arrive in the UK.
Together, the films press us with urgent questions: How have our prevailing narratives narrowed the possibility of welcoming the stranger? Who is rendered visible, and who is pushed to the margins? And, crucially, how can we re-imagine together a more inclusive society?
Integration is not framed here as a burden borne by those who arrive. Rather, it emerges as a shared civic practice—an ongoing, collective act requiring openness, creativity, and the courage to remain in conversation with one another.
Our panel discussion touches upon this, presenting Pixida Films’ campaigner Kassa Deressa.
This screening is presented by Pixida Films in collaboration with HIAS+JCORE and Brent Council to mark the initiative of Refugee Shabbat, a weekend celebrating interfaith support for the welcoming and integration of people that experience the asylum system in the UK.
Limbo, dir. Ben Sharrock,104 mins, (2020)
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.
Ill Fares The Land, dir. Patrick Ireland, 18 mins, (2023)
A young boy finds a mermaid washed up on the shores of his seaside home while his older brother is swept up in the rising tide of far-right nationalism.
Trigger warnings: The films contain distressing content, referencing mental health and self-harm.
Accessibility: There is level access throughout the event space, an accessible toilet is available on site.
This is a relaxed screening. The sound levels will be slightly lower than usual and some lighting will be on to allow for people to move around safely.
Our team is dedicated to ensuring a welcoming space for everyone and will be available to ensure the space is safe and accessible to all.
Over one weekend, we'll be screening all 10 nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars 2026.
The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday 15th March and this year we're rolling out the red carpet to all ten of the Best Picture nominees in the days before! Racking up a whopping 80 nominations between them all, don't miss your chance to catch BUGONIA, F1 THE MOVIE, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET, MARTY SUPREME, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, THE SECRET AGENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS and TRAIN DREAMS before the big night! If you haven't caught them yet then don't miss this last opportunity to see them all on the big screen between Friday 13th and Sunday 15th March.
As a lot of these films have been out for a little while tickets are only £10 but we've added a 'supporter' price of £15 too. If you're able to pay the larger amount that'd really help us to cover the costs of doing more of these one-off looking back projects.
