Monday 30 November 18:50 and Tuesday 1 December 13:00 
The screening will be preceded by the short Gisela
Lulu & Jimi
 Lulu & Jimi  

Premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Lulu & Jimi is a sexy and exceedingly entertaining film that aims to set hearts racing and fingers clicking as one waits with baited breath to see whether love saves the day. A stylish, musically infused romance that echoes both Hairspray and Romeo and Juliet, with magnetic performances from Jennifer Decker and Ray Fearon as fearless lovers.

It’s the 1950s and the rock ‘n’ roll era in Germany – lust for life and rebellion are in the air. On a sunny afternoon, Lulu, the daughter of a bankrupt factory owner, falls in love with the impossibly handsome but penniless black man Jimi. But the inhabitants of the conservative small town are horrified, and especially Lulu’s scheming mother Gertrud tries to stir up prejudices in her friends to tear the young love birds apart. She orders her secret lover and chauffeur Schultz and the wicked old doctor von Oppeln to do everything they can to spoil the couple’s happiness. But Lulu and Jimi won’t let anybody or anything get in their way! They live and love on the run, always one step ahead of their pursuers. Until they fall into a trap …

Says director Oskar Roehler “Lulu & Jimi is both a love story and gangster story. A love story pulsing with a huge amount of energy, where there are no limits – one’s first really big love, with all the pain and overwhelming feelings of happiness, but also with all the anxieties that go with it. That’s adventure, that’s freedom. These are terms that nowadays you only hear in advertising, but actually they should have a place in the cinema. I’ve been longing for this fairytale-like, enchanted world, where everything is possible and people are innocent, where there’s good and evil, where there are dangers and crime, and death lies in wait around the corner. That’s cinema for me. I love melodrama, I like love stories.”