Award Winning Independent Cinema

The 2026 BFI FAN UK-wide season – Rip It Up – explores and celebrates the changing face of youth rebellion, culture and expression – from joy to heartbreak – on screen in the UK.

Cut and Paste!, the PAC strand of the season, uses film as a starting point to explore what it feels like to be young in the city. How do places influence how young people see themselves and move through the spaces they inhabit. Three key films explore this, and zine workshops and archive exploration lends a playful, experimental, creative punk element to ripping the old things up and making something brand new. Working in partnership with Fotonow and The Box, Plymouth, we will leave our expectations behind and see what happens.

This season is made possible with the support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from National Lottery.