Event Postponed

Thank you for all your wonderful support, energy and enthusiasm for Studio 74 and our film programme. It has been wonderful to welcome you back and to be sharing great films with you once more. We will be temporarily closing (again) from Thu 5 Nov and this screening has been postponed. Our box office team are getting in touch with all ticket holders to let them know their options.

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Dir. Bassam Tariq
2020 | 90 mins | UK, USA

Bassam Tariq’s visceral directorial debut, co-written with Riz Ahmed, finds a British-Pakistani rapper’s life spiralling out of control when, on the cusp of success, he succumbs to a debilitating illness.

Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmend) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is as the vulnerability of illness and his decreasing mobility that brings both focus and fragmentation – memories and hallucinations merge to the beat of Qawwali music and are haunted by fervent apparitions of a masked figure – conjuring the unspoken spectre of Partition, which looms large in his father’s unspoken words.

Further bruising Zed’s ego is his nemesis – RPG, a young rapper whose face tattoos and crass lyrics bewilder him. Both a paean to the importance of cultural heritage and a sharply observed reflection on muscle memory, the richness of Tariq’s achievement lies in the details of this heady mosaic.

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 6 Nov: 5pm 
• Sat 7 Nov: 8.15pm
• Sun 8 Nov: 3.30pm
• Tue 10 Nov: 5pm
• Thu 12 Nov: 7.15pm

TICKET PRICES:

• £8* Standard
• £5* Student / Under 25

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>