Established in 2012, West Side Cinema offers the edge of world cinema in a relaxed and social atmosphere – themed music, cabaret style table seating and you can ‘bring your own’ drinks and snacks.

SAT 03 MAY - SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ÉTAT (12A)

Doors open 7:15 for a 7:45 start
£5 / £3 student and Young Scot card, cash only on the door.
BBFC: violence, discrimination, sexual violence references, strong language
English subtitles

African politics and American jazz collide in this riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba.

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today's geopolitical climate.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/_RwLdIiZk_8

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