Join Four Corners for Reclaiming Space: Refuge, an evening of films examining the notion of finding refuge and community in different spaces. Beginning with a council funded film tackling housing and pollution issues in 1970s Haringey, the programme visits the community-changing impact of a Bengali newspaper, then takes a walk from the Old Kent Road to the Kent Coast with Amaal Said and her mother, stopping off at some East London allotments, and ending the evening with an apocalyptic-flooded vision of the Docklands.

The programme:

What Future for Haringey? 1974

Documentary, director Andrew McTaggart.

Run time: 33 min

Accessibility: With sound

Notun Din, 1989

Documentary, director: Simon Ashdown.

Run time: 11 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Open Country, 2025

Documentary, director: Amaal Said.

Run time: 13 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Two Hinges and a January King, 2000

Documentary, director: Joe Rosen.

Run time: 5 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Polly ll: Plan for a Revolution in the Docklands, 2006

Drama, director: Anja Kirschner.

Run time: 30 min Accessibility: With sound

Some of these films contain language that some people may find offensive.

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Open Country was commissioned for The Open Road by Film and Video Umbrella, Forma and Three Rivers. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.