Pressure (4K Restoration) (15)

★★★✭ "Horace Ové’s fascinating, pioneering drama from 1975 is restored and re-released. The pioneering story of living with British racism retains its power and has the punchy energy of a 21st-century graphic novel, mixing comedy, tragedy and bitter irony." ~ The Guardian.

To coincide with their retrospective season of the work of the celebrated photographer, painter, writer, and pioneering filmmaker Sir Horace Ové, the BFI present a UK-wide cinema release of his pioneering 1975 debut feature in beautiful 4K restoration.

Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush generation with their first son, now part of the Black Power Movement, to their younger British-born son Tony (Herbert Norville), who is trying to find his place between the two cultures.

As he leaves school and encounters prejudice on individual and institutional levels, Tony struggles to find acceptance in the country he grew up in yet has no Caribbean home he can dream of returning to.

Unemployed and caught between an aspirational mother and a radical older brother, he drifts away from school friends and towards Black Power politics.