seasons

Rip It Up

Rip It Up is a UK-wide season, supported by BFI National Lottery funding, exploring and celebrating the changing face of youth rebellion, culture and expression on screen in the UK.

Rip It Up: Northern Soul: Still Burning

Northern Soul: Still Burning charts the history of Northern Soul, from its birth at the world-famous mecca, Wigan Casino, right through to the...
05 June 2026 until 08 June 2026
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Rip It Up X LUMI Presents: If....

Lindsay Anderson’s If.... is a daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Chosen...
09 June 2026
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Rip It Up: Rave Culture: A New Era

Late '80s. In an England suffocated by unemployment and Margaret Thatcher’s policies, a generation found refuge and a voice in electronic music.
13 June 2026
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Rip It Up: Quadrophenia

The Who’s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod...
21 June 2026 until 23 June 2026
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Rip It Up: Young Soul Rebels

Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set in London in 1977. The hedonistic world of pirate DJs Chris and...
24 July 2026
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Rip It Up x LUMI Presents: Jubilee

When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she’s transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland...
27 July 2026
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Rip It Up: Trainspotting

A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel was a major...
21 August 2026 until 27 August 2026
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Rip It Up: Shellshock Rock/Protex Hurrah/Self-Conscious Over You

Three films from master documentarian John T. Davis, capturing the rarely seen world of the underground punk scene in Northern Ireland in all its...
22 August 2026
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Rip It Up: Record Fair

Attention crate diggers! QFT, in conjunction with Holywood Record Fair, invites you to join us for the Rip It Up Record Fair on Saturday 22...
22 August 2026
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