Soul City Arts presented the Sparkbrook Film Festival, showcasing alternative narratives, classic storytelling, and blockbuster entertainment. Housed in a reclaimed warehouse space in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, it invited audiences into an intimate experience to share a love for local cinema. The aim was to recreate the look, feel, and atmosphere of the cinemas from the past that once thrived in and around Sparkbrook, like the Waldorf and Piccadilly, which served large audiences from the local South Asian communities.