BALLROOM DANCER + Q&A with Kele Baker
Ballroom Dancer is an intimate portrait of elite dancers and a gripping, tragic love story, exquisitely told through training sessions, hotel rooms and on the dancefloor.
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE + Directors Q&A
A documentary that looks at the underdogs of the video game industry, indie game developers, who sacrifice money, health and sanity to realise their lifelong dreams...
NATURAL GRACE: IRISH MUSIC & MARTIN HAYES
Filmed over a two year period, Art Ó Briain presents an up close and personal portrait of master fiddler Martin Hayes.
The Mexican Suitcase
The journey of recently revealed photographs from the Spanish civil war hidden for 70 years.
SOLAR MAMAS
Solar Mamas follows Rafea and a hand-picked group of other illiterate mothers and grandmothers from around the world as they learn about electrical components and soldering without being able to read, write or understand English.
EDUCATION EDUCATION
Weijun Chen's film looks at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of Wang Zehziang, a tutor at a private college, Wang Pan, high school graduate and would be student, and Wan Chao, graduate job seeker who goes from one unpromising interview to another.
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
An intimate and often funny look behind the scenes of the world's most influential fashion magazine, Vogue. Under the leadership of legendary Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour the editorial staff set out to assemble their biggest issue ever.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD + Director Q&A
Through the stories of mothers and babies, Welcome To The World looks at how poverty affects childbirth around the globe.
On the eve of the US Presidential Election, we have an exclusive preview of this film which gets to grips with the truth about who really runs American politics.
5 BROKEN CAMERAS + Q&A
The extraordinary story of a Palestinian village's resistance to encroaching Israeli settlements is brought to life powerfully, eloquently and personally, through the footage from Emad Burnat's five bullet-ridden and broken cameras...
LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR + Director Q&A
Chronicles a generation of artists, thinkers and activists using their creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define 1980s Western culture.
An alarmingly apt and hard-hitting film from a decade ago - when Murdoch was cementing his already monstrous presence on International Media.
GOING UP THE STAIRS
A charming, beautifully filmed portrait of the flourishing of an unlikely artist in the least hospitable of environments, and a rare glimpse inside a very traditional Iranian marriage
Féminin, Masculin
In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus.
OVER THE WALL + Q&A
The journey of a university football team transformed by the events they experience, tackling their way through Egypt to become the first British sports team to play in Palestine.
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
Celebrated artist, expert provocateur and one of China's most outspoken domestic critics, Ai Weiwei inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. This nuanced portrait of Ai reveals a man of unrelenting spirit whose passion and defiance continues.
MILES APART
The clash between different generations is heightened in a rapidly changing China as migrant workers Laomao and Meizi are finally joined in Beijing by their daughter, Ying Ying, a teenager who doesn't seem to share the work ethic which has dominated her parents' lives.
RESISTENCIA: STOLEN LAND + Panel Discussion
The Nasa people of southern Colombia are fighting to reclaim their ancestral land. Charismatic leader Lucho Acosta believes in non-violent civil resistance, but as clashes with police intensify and the government reneges on its promises, Acosta's beliefs are tested to their core.
RESISTENCIA: THE CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
During Pinochet's long regime, a motley crew of photojournalists gradually brought about a revolution. In the middle of bloody riots and protests, they learned their craft and created many of the now legendary images. For them, taking pictures was a type of resistance.
RESISTENCIA: WITH FIDEL WHATEVER HAPPENS
The 52nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, in the sedate village of Sierra Maestra. A quiet life is transformed for a celebration, as bullhorns blast out ideological slogans that are 52 years old. But what happens the following day when the party is over?
RESISTENCIA: LAW OF THE JUNGLE + Dir. Q&A
Deep in the Peruvian jungle, a group of indigenous people protest at the airfield of a multinational oil company. When a policeman is killed and the leaders are arrested, young, impassioned Fachin Ruíz sets out to prove their innocence, resulting in the first public debate on minority rights throughout Peru.