My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan
A real-life epic, My Childhood, My Country follows the life of a 7-year old Afghan boy, Mir Hussain over 20 years, as he grows from child to man to father in one of the most embattled countries in the world.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is the definitive exploration of the singer-songwriter and poet's creative life and career, told through the prism of this internationally renowned song, with its ever-evolving lyrics and creative interpretations.
A young girl from the Hmong ethnic minority of northern Vietnam is caught between her community's traditions and the world she glimpses through her schooling, in Vietnamese director Diễm Hà Lệ's compelling and challenging feature debut.
Dry Ground Burning explores the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas: fearless Chitara, her sister Léa and their all-female gang in the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, who hijack a pipeline in order to sell oil to their community.
What will future generations think of us in a historical context? Will they look back on us with despair? Who We Were observes thecurrent state of the world, accompanied by six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future.
This film plays out in Ukraine on a single day: March 14, 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War. In the last few weeks, intense warfare has surreally mixed places and people and created a post-apocalyptic dimension revealing new qualities and roles.
The stranger-than-fiction tale from 1990s Glasgow of a schoolboy who was not quite what he seemed...
Having participated in competition surfing worldwide, 14-year-old Scottish, under-18 champion, Ben Larg, is prepared to put his life on the line to ride one of the biggest and most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore, Ireland.
In Focus: Alexandra Cuesta, is the first UK survey of her work and includes all her completed films as well as other films selected by Cuesta, with an emphasis on recent productions by Ecuadorian filmmakers and artists. Playing as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel’s practice focuses upon sites of trauma relating to the military dictatorship of the 1970-80s. Playing as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022.
Made within the context of The Folk Memory Project, Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM is part of an ongoing participatory documentary project exploring the personal histories of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1961. Playing as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022.
Organised by Union Docs with programmer Cíntia Gil, this programme explores the psychology of the encounter, the performance of situational power, and how the production of narrative can be the ground where those tensions operate. Playing as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022.
Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction.
Combined programme playing as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2022.
The untold story of a band of renegade surfer girls who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world in a fight for inclusion, recognition and equality, creating their own professional sport and changing surf culture forever.
An unlikely team of Zimbabwean sommeliers travel to France to enter the World Wine Tasting Championship in this immensely enjoyable doc that says as much about optimism and resilience as it does about noses and palates.
Three young South African women navigate the crumbling ruins of a colonial past when they become Kruger National Park rangers.
The extraordinary and eventful life of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge is perfectly exposed in Marc Shaffer's thrilling profile.
Filmed over nine years, Children of Las Brisas follows the intertwining lives of a group of children from the Venezuelan barrios, as they struggle to become professional musicians in a country on the verge of collapse.
Rikke Brewer and best friend Aiden Knox, ‘failing’ working-class teenagers, hone their spectacular UrbEx stunts and gravity-defying Parkour skills, hoping that millions of 'likes' will be their ticket out of boring Guildford.
Experience the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr, through the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. A dazzling, worthy tribute to the much-loved author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five.