Delivered in partnership with Firefly Leicester and supported by the Big Lottery Fund, the season aims to raise awareness amongst care professionals and the public of how stigmatised representations of sex workers can have a life-threatening impact upon them.
All films are free and seats allocated on a first-come, first-served basis on the evening. View our blog, which contains a review of the first screening in the season, here.
Waitress and single mother, Christine struggles to make ends meet. She thus decides first to prostitutes herself and then, with a business-like, practical turn of mind, opens what will become a successful brothel. Inspired by a true story. View our review of the screening here. A controversial masterpiece. A sterile sense of male honour leads to violence and death. Recently immigrated to Milan from southern Italy, Rocco and his brothers seek a better future when a young disenchanted woman enters their lives.
Flash forward to the post-war years, and the two meet again, sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades. Normal is creative documentary based on original anthropological research on the relationship between migration, the sex industry and sex trafficking.
The film brings the real life stories of male, female and transgender migrants working in the sex industry to the screen. Set in the Italian port town of Genoa, the film is a tribute to love and to the city. To find out more about the Leicester Red Project and the organisation behind the project, Firefly Leicester Community Interest Company head to their website.
