A screening of the 1976 British film 'Pressure', a coming-of-age story about the Windrush generation, as part of the London Film Festival at HOME.
Pressure is screening at HOME on Tuesday 27 October, as part of the London Film Festival's presence in Manchester. It's a coming-of-age story set in 1970s London, and it holds a particular place in British cinema: it was the country's first Black feature film.
The story follows a Black family in west London, and the focus shifts between the generations. You've got the parents, who arrived from Trinidad as part of the Windrush generation, and their eldest son, who's by now a figure in the British music scene. The film draws on the Windrush experience, so it's as much about the parents' arrival and the life they built as it is about the son finding his own way within that context.
It was directed by Horace Ové, who also wrote the screenplay alongside fellow Trinidadian author Sam Selvon. The two worked together on the script, and both brought their own connections to the Windrush generation's experience into the writing. Because it's a coming-of-age story, it looks at the friction and the bonds between the parents' generation and the one that grew up here.
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The screening is part of the London Film Festival (LFF) programme at HOME, so it's one of the festival's titles showing in Manchester rather than just in London. It's rated 15, and it runs on Tuesday 27 October at HOME.
