Welcome II The Terrordome

About this event

Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision Welcome II The Terrordome made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman, and thirty years later, it’s coming back to the big screen in a brand new 4K restoration thanks to Janus Films. Largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to living in a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death. Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks extremely prescient now, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.

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