Recommended for: ESOL Entry Level 3 and above
Capacity: 158 places
Taking place during Refugee Week, this interactive study session will focus on cross-cultural friendship and social cohesion between people from different backgrounds. It will use a full screening of Somers Town as a basis for language exercises with plenty of opportunities for discussion. Study materials for classwork before and after the study session will be provided.
Screening: Somers Town (12A)
Director: Shane Meadows, United Kingdom, 2008, 71 mins.
Tommo is a troubled runaway whose chance encounter with Marek, a quiet, sensitive Polish teenager living with his labourer father is the beginning of a life-changing friendship. Shot in stunning black and white on location in the area of North London from which the film takes its name.