HOW TO HAVE SEX: British Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Sunday 21. June at 18:30 - 20:01
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 16-21 FOMO is taking a tour through some of the most distinctive films to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last fifty years. Punk manifestos. Social realism. Gangster films. Cult classics. Coming-of-age stories. Music culture. Working-class Britain. Films that helped define entire generations, alongside newer works that show where British cinema is heading today.
HOW TO HAVE SEX
Molly Manning Walker | 2023 | United Kingdom/Greece | 1h31m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
HOW TO HAVE SEX is one of the most accurate films about being a teenager made in recent years.
Three British girls travel to a party resort in Greece on what's supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime. They drink too much and sleep too little. Meet boys. Lose each other. Find each other again. At first, the film feels almost documentary-like in its attention to detail. The music. The heat. The awkward conversations. The endless search for validation. Anyone who's ever been young will recognise the world immediately
The central performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce is extraordinary. She manages to convey confidence, vulnerability, confusion, and loneliness often within the same scene. The film works because everything is filtered through her experience. We aren't observing events from a distance. We're living them alongside her.
When the film premiered at Cannes it won the Un Certain Regard prize and quickly became one of the most celebrated British debuts in recent years. The praise was deserved. Manning Walker approaches difficult subject matter with an unusual level of sensitivity and intelligence. She trusts the audience to draw their own conclusions rather than spelling everything out.
I've paired HOW TO HAVE SEX with BIRD because both films are interested in young people trying to make sense of the world around them. Andrea Arnold and Molly Manning Walker belong to different generations of British filmmakers, yet both share an extraordinary ability to capture the uncertainty and emotional intensity of adolescence.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00, serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
