Access Document
The ICA, and host Ethan Lyon, are excited to welcome you to the ICA’s first Relaxed Screening, of Elene Naveriani’s Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry. This is a trial screening with a view to making it a regular part of the ICA’s programming, so please leave your feedback with access@ica.art if you’d like to see more of these.
These screenings are for people who want to enjoy the big screen experience but find the noise and lack of light overwhelming. To help this, the house lights will be on at a low level in the cinema and the volume will be slightly reduced from normal. There will also be a quiet space provided if you feel distressed and need to leave the screening.
After the screening, there will be a discussion in the Upper Gallery where you can talk about your responses to the film and your experiences with autism and disability in a safe space.
The ICA, and host Ethan Lyon, are excited to welcome you to the ICA’s first Relaxed Screening, of Elene Naveriani’s Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry. This is a trial screening with a view to making it a regular part of the ICA’s programming, so please leave your feedback with access@ica.art if you’d like to see more of these.
These screenings are for people who want to enjoy the big screen experience but find the noise and lack of light overwhelming. To help this, the house lights will be on at a low level in the cinema and the volume will be slightly reduced from normal. There will also be a quiet space provided if you feel distressed and need to leave the screening.
After the screening, there will be a discussion in the Upper Gallery where you can talk about your responses to the film and your experiences with autism and disability in a safe space.
Ethan, our host, has been helping run Relaxed Screenings with the BFI since 2022 and has seen how a core audience for these events has grown and flourished. As a disabled person himself, he wants to be able to go to films and talk about how they made him feel with his friends. Ethan’s thesis was about how he understood films autistically. Relaxed Screenings provide that space for people to learn about films, about themselves and about others, to connect and feel safe in their difference. It’s our desire that this event will be the first of many of those opportunities here at the ICA.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, dir. Elene Naveriani
Switzerland / Germany / Georgia 2023, 110 min., Georgian with English subtitles
Etero (a sensitive performance by Eka Chavleishvili) is a self-contented shop owner and blackberry forager in a small Georgian town. Happily single in her late ’40s, she never expected to feel a sudden surge of desire for one of the local men. Director Elene Naveriani (Wet Sand) has created a deliciously shrewd and refreshing portrait of a woman who doesn’t want, or need, to conform.
Switzerland / Germany / Georgia 2023, 110 min., Georgian with English subtitles
Etero (a sensitive performance by Eka Chavleishvili) is a self-contented shop owner and blackberry forager in a small Georgian town. Happily single in her late ’40s, she never expected to feel a sudden surge of desire for one of the local men. Director Elene Naveriani (Wet Sand) has created a deliciously shrewd and refreshing portrait of a woman who doesn’t want, or need, to conform.
02:30 pm
Sun, 12 May 2024
Cinema 1
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Cinema 1
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- We have 1 wheelchair allocated space with a seat for a companion
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
for the following requirements:
- We have unassigned seating. If you require a specific seat, please reserve this in advance
- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email
All films are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with a 10 min. curated selection of trailers.
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