Care BTS: How to Have Sex + Panel discussion

Molly Manning Walker’s startlingly frank, stylish debut follows three teenage girls on a rites-of-passage holiday. 

Join us for a special screening of How to Have Sex, a highly acclaimed film that offers an evocative and nuanced portrayal of sex, consent and female friendship. Shy Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce) and her more confident friends are seeking drinks, sun and sex at a Cretan resort. But when a night of hedonism turns sour, Tara starts to question her experiences, her friendships and her future, even as the partying continues around her. 

Content Warning: This film includes depictions of sexual assault.

Post-screening Panel discussion

We're delighted to be joined by the film's Intimacy Coordinator Jen Odell whose film and TV work includes Dune Part 2 and 3, Sex Education series 2 and 3, and Black Mirror and actor Enva Lewis who made her acting debut in the film. The discussion will be chaired by Polina Zelmanova, a PhD candidate, Relationships and Sex Education practitioner and co-curator of the Care BTS season whose research explores depictions of sex on screen in the #MeToo era. 

Care Behind the Scenes

A series of film talks and workshops curated by Dr Alice Pember and Polina Zelmanova exploring how filmmakers have demonstrated caring practices with their casts and crew.

Our Handle with Care! cinema programme has been made possible with support from Film Hub Midlands through funds from the National Lottery. Film Hub Midlands support people to watch, show, and make films in the Midlands.