The Working Class Film Festival
Running Date: 8-10 May 2026
Friday 8 - Sunday 10 May 2026 will see the inaugural Working Class Film Festival take place at Showroom Cinema. Submissions for film and moving image of all types and lengths have been invited from producers, directors and writers that hail from a working class background.
The festival aims to highlight the talent of a wide and underrepresented demographic within the film industry; with only 8% of people working within the creative sector being born into a working class family. A key remit of the inaugural weekend is to highlight the many intersections of the working class paradigm, including gender, race and sexuality.
The concluding aim of the first year is a will to recognise and journey beyond the kitchen sink into realms of the fantastic, horrifying and wonderful, with a strong encouragement for genre cinema to be submitted.
Programme Schedule
Friday 8 May
5.30pm - Pressure [50th Anniversary] (15)
Saturday 9 May
10.45am - Working Class Film Makers - A Young Persons Crash Course (11+)
12.40pm - Working Class Transitions [Shorts] (15*)
2.40pm - Working Class & Marvellous [Shorts] (12+)
4.40pm - Working Class Realities [Shorts] (15*)
7pm - A Town I Love so Well [+Director Q&A] (CTBA)
Sunday 9 May
11.00am - This Class Works [Shorts] (15*)
12.35pm - The Lab Class [Shorts] (15*)
3.30pm - Kes [+ David Bradley Q&A] (PG)
6.30pm - The ICO Presents... Uncommon Voices - Exploring Class in New British Cinema [Shorts] (CTBA)
Tickets and Passes
Feature films (including Pressure, A Town I Love So Well and Kes):
Tickets are £12 (£10 concession*), or just £6 with a free CINE26 membership. Claimants tickets are £5.
Working Class Film Makers - A Young Persons Crash Course:
Tickets are £10 (£8 concession*). Claimants tickets are £5.
Shorts Packages:
Individual Tickets are £7 (£6 concession*). Claimants tickets are £6.
*Concessions include under 15s, students, over 60s, and Blue Light cardholders
Tickets will go on sale Monday 13 April at midday.