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Welcome to a special Pride edition of Never Seen It Film Club!

If you're tired of safe, sanitised, corporate-friendly Pride programming, you are in the right place. This Pride season, we are stepping away from the predictable blockbusters to shine a spotlight on the ultimate outsiders, the beautiful weirdos, and the boundary-pushers of Queer cinema. Across two weekends, we are charting a course through the wild, unapologetic fringes of identity.

WEEKEND 1 (Sunday 19th July 2pm) DOUBLE BILL: Be Gay, Do Crime, Smash the System
Featured Films: Nimona (2023) & Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 15+

Kick off the season with an adrenaline-fueled, genre-bending double bill that turns the concept of the "societal monster" into an absolute superpower. We begin with Nimona (2023), a bright, fast-paced, punk-rock animated fantasy about a chaotic, shape-shifting outsider who refuses to exist inside a binary and decides to dismantle a heavily policed kingdom instead.

Once the sun goes down, we graduate into the late-night slot with Love Lies Bleeding (2024), a sweat-and-blood, 1980s neon-noir thriller where those exact same themes of physical transformation and radical rebellion are dialed up to an R-rated extreme.

Together, this unlikely pairing serves up a high-octane celebration of anti-hero energy, proving that when the system is rigged, the most joyful thing you can do is break the rules.

WEEKEND 2 (Sunday 26th July 6pm)The Origin of Wholeness: A John Cameron Mitchell Retrospective (NB) 18+

For weekend two, we dive headfirst into the legendary, countercultural world of filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell with a double feature exploring the messy, vulnerable, and deeply human search for connection.

First, don the glitter and wigs for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), the iconic, groundbreaking glam-rock musical about a genderqueer East German rock singer navigating a divided past, a botched surgery, and the philosophical search for her "other half."

We pair it with Mitchell's spiritual successor, Shortbus (2006), a raw, funny, and deeply empathetic look into a utopian New York art-and-sex salon where an ensemble of diverse characters use sexual exploration to heal their emotional isolation. Moving from the stage lights of rock-and-roll to the intimate spaces of vulnerable connection, this double bill is a profound testament to self-love, sexual liberation, and finding your people in a lonely world

Let's celebrate the rebels who refuse to fit into a neat little box!

NB Content Note: This double feature addresses adult themes with unflinching honesty and requires a strict age limit of 18 and over.

Shortbus (2006): Landmark cinema featuring frequent, explicit, and entirely unsimulated (real) sexual acts. While the film is a deeply empathetic, non-pornographic comedy-drama about emotional healing, it contains highly graphic adult content.