Many thanks to the 500 people that joined Brightwide for a special official screening of the award winning film No One Knows About Persian Cats at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival! The screening was followed by a specially convened panel debate introduced by Colin Firth.

Bahman Gobhadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats is a documentary-fiction portrait of the underground music scene in contemporary Iran.

Recently released from prison, two young musicians decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan to escape from their clandestine existence, and dream of performing in Europe. But with no money and no passports, it won't be easy...

If you would like to know more about what happened on Sunday, please click on the link.

At the end of the week, we will publish here the amazing video of the panel discussion and Colin Firth's introduction to Brightwide in HQ.