Join us on Wed 27 May from 7.00pm (BST), when we’ll be in conversation with the producers of NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (2020); Adele Romanski & Sara Murphy (who run PASTEL with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins) and Rose Garnett (BBC Films) and also CEO of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare; Jane Hatfield, writer & editor working in sexual and reproductive health and rights; Lisa Hallgarten and Emma Campbell from Alliance 4 Choice, Belfast.
via our Facebook Live page here
Watch NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS from 13 May – premium release – film available to own on Sky, Amazon, Apple, Virgin, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Chili, Rakuten TV, BT and Talk Talk
27 May – film available to rent on Sky, Amazon, Apple, Virgin, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Chili, Rakuten TV, BT and Talk Talk
Closed captions available on most platforms
Live captioned talk. Film available with captions.
SYNOPSIS
When 17-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) looks at herself in the mirror, she can see the
signs beginning to manifest in her body. She visits a pregnancy center, where her
apprehensions are confirmed by a positive result on a drugstore pregnancy kit. But the
center’s pamphlets aimed at encouraging motherhood and adoption don’t tell Autumn
what she wants and needs to know.
What Autumn learns about reproductive services through her own research is not
encouraging. As a minor she cannot obtain an abortion in her home state without parental
consent. That leaves her to consider the age-old methods women have turned to when
confronting unintended pregnancies.
Though Autumn keeps mum about her dilemma, her distress is clear to her cousin and best
friend Skylar (Talia Ryder), who sees her every day at school and at their part-time jobs as
cashiers. As soon as she understands Autumn’s situation, Skylar’s support is swift and
decisive, without a word needing to be spoken.
With the address of a Brooklyn clinic in hand, the cousins board an early morning bus
bound for New York City. But their trip takes an unexpected turn when Autumn learns that
a one-visit procedure isn’t possible. As the cousins navigate two fraught days and nights in
an unfamiliar and overwhelming city, their journey becomes one of profound solidarity,
compassion and friendship.
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