Sing Sing

February 24, 2025

Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm

USA | 2024 | English | Poignant, Compassionate, Powerful | 105 minutes

Based on the real-life arts rehabilitation programme founded at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Greg Kwedar’s new film follows a troupe of incarcerated actors who work on a play as part of a theatre workshop at the prison.

Every six months, the men gather in a circle of chairs, often looking to Divine G (Colman Domingo) to help decide their next play. When he recruits a new member called Divine Eye, he gets more than he bargained for.

Domingo gives one of the most memorable and affecting performances of his career, bolstered by a cast made up almost entirely of formerly incarcerated actors and alumni of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts programme.

Their participation brings an authenticity to the group’s founding principle that human dignity must be a part of the justice system. It’s an ode to art as a process, much the same as life, through which we can strive to better understand ourselves and each other.