City Screen, York will play host to the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, and filmmakers Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson for a discussion at the special showing of Mugabe And The White African (12A), on April 18.

This award-winning documentary portrays the decline of Zimbabwe into a frightening, racist and violent society, barely able to feed its citizens, through the eyes of Mike Campbell, a Zimbabwean farmer who challenges President Robert Mugabe in the international courts.

Dave Taylor, marketing manager of City Screen, says: “We’re greatly honoured to welcome Dr Sentamu to watch the documentary, which shows the brutality of President Mugabe’s regime and yet offers great hope through the strength of the human spirit.”

Bailey and Thompson are delighted their film is to be screened in York. “Our documentary is about the extraordinary courage and faith it takes to face up to a dictator,” says Lucy. “The Archbishop of York has been a prominent opponent of Mugabe’s regime; we know the screening will be an important event in raising issues of human rights, rule of law and democracy for all in Zimbabwe.”

In December 2007, Dr Sentamu cut up his dog collar on BCC1’s Andrew Marr Show, vowing not to wear it again until Mugabe had been ousted.

The screening has been arranged after Juliet Wright of Huntington Road, York, contacted City Screen. “I’m the first cousin once removed, to be precise, of Mike Campbell’s wife, Angela,” she says. “We’re a close family, if far flung, and I know them well. They have three children, Cath, to whom my brother is married, living in Harare; Bruce, who still is holding the fort as best he can in Chegutu, and Laura.”

Tickets for the 5pm screening can be booked on 0871 704 2054 or online at picturehouses.co.uk