MAIDAN + Discussion
Chronicling the civil uprising against the regime of president Yanukovych that took place in Kiev's main square last winter, Director Sergei Loznitsa presents a powerful document of a historic turning point for Ukraine.
EMPTYING THE SKIES + Director Q&A
Based on an essay by best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen (Executive Producer), Emptying the Skies investigates the rampant slaughter of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.
UNEARTHED + Director Q&A
As the South African government considers introducing fracking to the Karoo, filmmaker Jolynn Minnaar decides to investigate the effects of this controversial process...
CITIZENFOUR Screening + Panel Discussion
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as "citizen four"...
E-TEAM + Q&A with Fred Abrahams
When reports emerge of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch sends emergency investigators to document violations and reveal them to the world. These specialist investigators, the first on the ground, are the E-Team.
SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE Screening + Director Q&A
Doctor Krassi, nurse Mila and driver Plamen are the overworked crew of one of the last operating ambulances in Sofia, Bulgaria. We observe as they race through the night, struggling to save lives in the face of a lack of resources...
RED LINES + Q&A with Razan
This is a side of war you don't see. Telling the dramatic story of two Syrians from vastly different walks of life who are thrown together through the circumstances of war, Red Lines is a gripping film highlighting the resilience of the Syrian people...
LOVE HOTEL + Directors Q&A
There are 37,000 Love Hotels in Japan visited by 2.8million people a day. An ancient Japanese tradition, the hotels exist for people to escape the conservative structures of their daily lives, to explore their fantasies or just find some privacy.
MINERS SHOT DOWN + Director Q&A
August 2012, Marikana. Thirty-four miners are shot dead by police and scores more left injured at the end of a six day strike. Playing out like a political thriller, Miners Shot Down pieces together what happened in those six days.
MY NAME IS SALT Screening + Director & Cinematographer Q&A
India's Little Ran of Kutch desert seems to extend for eternity. There's not a tree or blade of grass in sight. But for eight months of the year 40,000 men, women and children trek across India to scrape a living from this most unlikely place...
PINE RIDGE + Director Q&A
It's a long, hot summer in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. Through a series of intimate portraits we are introduced to the young heart of Native America - a generation ghettoised from society...
Let's Get Lost
Renowned photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber's Oscar nominated film about the late, great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker re-released
I Am Divine
Featuring contributions from friends and collaborators and rare archive footage, this documentary tells the story of how a shy kid from Baltimore transformed himself into Divine, the most notorious and renowned drag icon in the world. A rich and definitive study of one of cinema's true originals.
WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? + Director Q&A
The body of an immigrant is found in Arizona's 'Corridor of Death', the words Dayani Cristal tattooed across his chest are the only clue to his identity...
THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN
A fascinating documentary about a handful of Europeans who couldn't get along when they separately settled on one of the tiny uninhabited islands in the Pacific West of South America in the early 1930s.
Virunga
Deep in the rainforests of eastern Congo lies Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, and the last remaining home of the mountain gorilla. With a brutal civil war creeping ever closer the park is under threat like never before...
Watchers of the Sky
"Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?" Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history with this one question. Watchers of the Sky explores the life and legacy of Lemkin...
Down by Law
George Amponsah will discuss the ups and downs of making an independently financed, politically charged documentary feature in the UK. This event is part of the Open City Docs Festival.
FOREST OF THE DANCING SPIRITS + Director Q&A
This astonishing film takes us into the lives of the 'Aka' who have lived deep in the heart of the Congolese rainforest without contact with the outside world for generations.
LIGHT FLY, FLY HIGH + Panel Discussion
Thulasi is a young woman with a tough future ahead of her. She was born a "Dalit," or "untouchable" in the Indian caste system. Her early years were a struggle for survival but now she is willing to literally fight for a better...
PIPELINE + Director Q&A
An epic Trans-Siberian pipeline is the backdrop to Vitaly Mansky's poetic new documentary. Mansky uses the route of the pipeline to explore the everyday lives of the people living alongside it.