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Clean Break's Online Film Festival 2024

Films from Clean Break and beyond, hosted on our Knowledge Hub
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Smart Justice Animated Series

Three animated short films commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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Full Festival Programme

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Home

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn’t straightforward.
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After Time

Three men share the damaging effects that criminalisation has had on their lives, and how they have found ways to move forward.
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Buddleia: the Unchained Story

The tale of Brenda, also known as Lady Unchained, a poet, performer, broadcaster and advocate for life after prison.
A still from Dues. A young girl looks in the mirror with a man behind her, she has a slight look of fright on her face.

Dues

Fifteen-year-old Tia has to be strong for her mum who's experiencing abuse, but she’s vulnerable to exploitation from criminal networks unless she can find a way out, fast.
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Hope

A film from Clean Break
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More Than One Story

Short films from Cardboard Citizens, starring Clean Break Member artists
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No Comprendo

A short-authored documentary about language and communication in the criminal justice system.
a mother and daughter walk along the beach together

Adra Ni Y Môr (Our Home The Sea)

A beautiful and heart wrenching story of the impact of the Welsh second homes crisis on a mother and her daughter.
a photo of a prison gate leading to a green space

Without Walls

Five Clean Break Members share their experiences of HMP Holloway
an illustration of a woman with two childen

Smart Justice Animated Series

Three animated short films commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Sweatbox

Chloë Moss’s Clean Break play is transformed into an electric adaptation for the screen.
a black and white photo of a young woman's face, torn in half to reveal the other half of a woman's face, older and in colour

Violet Gave Willingly

An unflinchingly intimate mother-daughter conversation.
a young boy looks down at an injured crow on the floor

Wings

A love letter from the late Sonya Hale, written as a signal of hope to her son after she’s gone.

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Futures

A still from after time

After Time

Three men share the damaging effects that criminalisation has had on their lives, and how they have found ways to move forward.
a young boy looks down at an injured crow on the floor

Wings

A love letter from the late Sonya Hale, written as a signal of hope to her son after she’s gone.
two young women lying on the grass laughing

Home

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn’t straightforward.
a still from hope

Hope

A film from Clean Break
a photo of a prison gate leading to a green space

Without Walls

Five Clean Break Members share their experiences of HMP Holloway

Spotlight on...
Experiencing the Criminal Justice System

a woman sitting on a bench outside

No Comprendo

A short-authored documentary about language and communication in the criminal justice system.
an illustration of a woman with two childen

Smart Justice Animated Series

Three animated short films commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
a photo of a prison gate leading to a green space

Without Walls

Five Clean Break Members share their experiences of HMP Holloway
A still from after time

After Time

Three men share the damaging effects that criminalisation has had on their lives, and how they have found ways to move forward.
two young women lying on the grass laughing

Home

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn’t straightforward.
still from Buddleia

Buddleia: the Unchained Story

The tale of Brenda, also known as Lady Unchained, a poet, performer, broadcaster and advocate for life after prison.

Sweatbox

Chloë Moss’s Clean Break play is transformed into an electric adaptation for the screen.

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10 Stories by Black Artists Which Reclaim the Narrative

Clean Break's Associate Artistic Director Lakesha Arie-Angelo shares her picks from stage and screen for Black History Month
a woman sitting on a bench outside

No Comprendo

A short-authored documentary about language and communication in the criminal justice system.
a young boy looks down at an injured crow on the floor

Wings

A love letter from the late Sonya Hale, written as a signal of hope to her son after she’s gone.

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About us

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Clean Break changes lives and changes minds through theatre – on stage, in prison and in the community. We produce ground-breaking plays with women’s voices at the heart of our work and use theatre to transform the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system or at risk of entering it.

Our History

Clean Break Theatre Company with the Mayor of Camden outside HMP Holloway, 1986
Clean Break was established by two women in prison in 1979, at HMP Askham Grange, who believed that theatre could bring the hidden stories of women who are criminalised to a wider audience. Explore Clean Break’s radical and unique story in our interactive digital archive.
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