From our manager, Neil:
I saw this documentary in September 2024 when it screened at London Film Festival and I have been on the lookout ever since in the hope that we could screen it at The Riverside. It was not necessarily an easy watch, but it moved me and left me thinking about the film for days afterwards. I cannot personally recommend this film enough and would strongly advise you give the film a chance, and come and see it.
Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood.
Directed by BAFTA Breakthrough Daisy-May Hudson and EMMY nominated Sophie Compton, this deeply moving and transformational documentary feature was made via a unique process of a trauma-informed co-creation with six contributors, a group of incredibly talented, high profile women who are running charities and using their lived-experience to call for change. They are Aliyah Ali, Mandy Ogunmokun, Sarah Cassidy, Lady Unchained, Gerrah, and Tamar Mujanay.
The film had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Its international premiere was at Hot Docs Film Festival in Canada, in competition for the Academy Award Qualifying Best International Documentary.
HOLLOWAY is a profound, meditative, eye-opening and ultimately inspiring exploration of trauma and the immense human capacity for recovery.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Financial Times 'Hugely powerful..hard to shake'
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Guardian: ' Essential viewing for policy makers' and 'an astonishing new documentary'
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Times ' Moving...the stakes rarely get higher'
