In an alternate reality version of present-day California, mild-mannered call centre operator Cassius Green (Stanfield) whizzes up the corporate ladder after he discovers his unique ability to adopt a “white voice”. With his career taking off, he falls under the spell of Steve Lift (Hammer), a sarong-wearing, cocaine-snorting CEO who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams. But as Cassius soon discovers, the cost of success could be more than just alienation from both his colleagues and his activist girlfriend Detroit (Thompson). 

Bursting with ideas, Riley’s cinematic universe offers absurdist comedy in both office life and the corporate world as well as delivering a savage commentary on the young African-American experience. Teasing us around the idea of how readily we are all willing to ignore the obvious horrors in front of our faces, Sorry to Bother You is a well-deserved addition to the triumphant new wave of radical black cinema.

All our screenings are 18+ and the film will begin at the advertised time above.

Content Warnings: discrimination, language, sex, sexual violence, threat and horror, violence.  Flashing lights and strobing patterns.