Screening of 'Ish', Imran Perretta's black-and-white coming-of-age film about two twelve-year-old friends and racial profiling, rated 15.
Ish screens at The Electric Palace on Thursday 29 October, a mid-afternoon showing that runs for 89 minutes. It's written and directed by Imran Perretta, with Enda Walsh — who co-wrote Hunger — as co-writer, and shot in black and white by cinematographer Jermaine Canute Edwards, known for My Father's Shadow.
The story follows two twelve-year-old best friends whose relationship is tested after a police stop and search, set within Luton's South Asian and Middle Eastern community. It's a coming-of-age story and an investigation of young masculinity, but there's a more sinister thread running through it: racial profiling and facial recognition technology. The film layers those two things together, the personal friendship and the political tension, and it's rated 15.
Perretta wears a few hats here — he's an artist, musician, and film-maker — and the film was supported by BFI FAN and the National Lottery. It also forms part of Rip it Up, a UK-wide celebration of youth culture on screen, so it's one of several screenings showing youth culture from different angles across the country.
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The screening is at The Electric Palace Cinema, 39A High Street, Hastings, TN34 3ER, starting at 15:00 on Thursday 29 October. It runs for 89 minutes, and the 15 rating means it's not for the younger crowd.
