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Black Film Club
Enfield Caribbean Association in collaboration with the Dugdale Arts Centre: launched the Black Film Club in January 2025. The Dugdale is a lovely venue with seating for 95 persons. This is a monthly year-round programme of films that showcase Black talent, filmmakers, stories, voices and actors, across all genres for all audiences with after film activities and discussions. The programme includes adult and children’s films. There are after film activities after each film. After film activities for children include face painting and art workshops.
Throughout 2025, we screened a wide range of films for both children and adults. For children this included The Wild Robot, Mufasa, Moana 2 and Wish. Our adults screens ranged from mainstream film such as Rye Lane, Just Mercy Malcolm X and Boxing Day to classics such as Babylon and Hero: The Extraordinary Life of Mr. Ulric Cross. We also provided thought provoking documentaries such as Summer of Soul, Blood Ah Go Run and Barrel Children – popular documentary about the Windrush generation.
The Black Film Club has been financially supported by a grant from Film Hub London, BFI FAN, and Film London.
Some of the films screened in 2026 include:
April – Milestones: Streets Paved with Gold – A powerful film honouring the Windrush generation and the Caribbean migration experience in Britain. Adapted from Victor Richards’ acclaimed one-man play, this 60-minute cinematic journey follows Augustus Cleveland Johnson from his 1948 arrival in England through decades of resilience, family, culture, and identity.
There is a special appearance by musician, composer and artist Ciyo Brown who will perform before the screening. After the screening, there will be a discussion with the filmmaker, Victor Richards, where audiences can ask questions and reflect on the film.
May – My Fathers Shadow
My Father’s Shadow is a BAFTA award winning drama film directed by Akinola Davies Jnr. Two young boys explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their fathers’ daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
This film is visually stunning, powerfully acted and captures the 1993 setting perfectly. A touching film about family, memory and being there for one another. Definitely worth watching!
June – Windrush Voices
Windrush Voices explores the lives of some of the contributors to the Windrush Voices book. Men women and children, who came from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana and other islands as well as Nigeria and South Africa. The documentary shares the stories of the individuals who answered the call in 1948 onwards to help build the Motherland.
In this documentary the brave individuals tell their unique stories of their lives in the Caribbean, their decision to travel to the Motherland, life once they arrived in England and how they survived and thrived sometimes against all the odds. This documentary brought tears, laughter challenge as you go on the journey with the courageous participants – the Windrush Generation.
July – Sing Your Song
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Susanne Rostock’s film Sing Your Song lets us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the triumphs of this extraordinary icon. Belafonte grew up, poverty ridden, in Harlem and Jamaica.
We will not be showing a film in the month of August and will finalising the film screening for the rest of the year. So watch this space.