29 April – 2 May 2026
Working across decades and continents, Penny Allen has forged a fiercely independent cinema rooted in place, performance and lived experience.
This programme brings together her landmark films Property and Paydirt, which set a blueprint for the kind of regional independent cinema since exemplified by the likes of Kelly Reichardt and Gus Van Sant, alongside her latest film Pushing Past the Bad, a Mediterranean-set tale of love and familial entanglement.
Working across decades and continents, Penny Allen has forged a fiercely independent cinema rooted in place, performance and lived experience.
This programme brings together her landmark films Property and Paydirt, which set a blueprint for the kind of regional independent cinema since exemplified by the likes of Kelly Reichardt and Gus Van Sant, alongside her latest film Pushing Past the Bad, a Mediterranean-set tale of love and familial entanglement.
Programme
Thursday 30 April, 6.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Pushing Past the Bad + Q&A
Penny Allen's latest film is a strange and poignant fable of love, romance and family, centred upon Stann, the head of a troubled French family, whose life is floundering in petty criminality until he meets Gloria.
Friday 1 May, 8.30pm
Property
Penny Allen's landmark independent film presents a caustically funny vision of her hometown of Portland, Oregan, as a rag-tag coterie of bohemians, activists and dissidents attempt to buy a block of houses in the midst of rampant gentrification.
Saturday 2 May, 8.40pm
Paydirt
Penny Allen returns to the Pacific Northwest, with this tale of a community of vintners whose sun-dabbled lives are unsettled by a series of violent robberies.
Thursday 30 April, 6.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Pushing Past the Bad + Q&A
Penny Allen's latest film is a strange and poignant fable of love, romance and family, centred upon Stann, the head of a troubled French family, whose life is floundering in petty criminality until he meets Gloria.
Friday 1 May, 8.30pm
Property
Penny Allen's landmark independent film presents a caustically funny vision of her hometown of Portland, Oregan, as a rag-tag coterie of bohemians, activists and dissidents attempt to buy a block of houses in the midst of rampant gentrification.
Saturday 2 May, 8.40pm
Paydirt
Penny Allen returns to the Pacific Northwest, with this tale of a community of vintners whose sun-dabbled lives are unsettled by a series of violent robberies.
