THE INVISIBLE WAR + Panel Discussion
A ground-breaking investigation into the hidden rape epidemic in the US armed forces. The Invisible War exposes the Kafkaesque military legal system in which the victims who come forward find themselves.
LOOKING FOR LIGHT: JANE BROWN
A moving portrait of the photographer, Jane Brown, her quiet determination working in an almost exclusively male world, her unique working method and how the sorrow of her early childhood informed her unique photographic style.
THE PUNK SINGER + Director Q&A
As lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna became the controversial voice of the 90s feminist movement, 'Riot Grrrl'. Mixing interviews and archive footage The Punk Singer charts the life of this unique artist.
Little Proletarian
14-year-old Hai has been kicked out of school. With a cigarette hanging from his mouth, he wanders around town, stealing, fighting and terrorising the village with his motorcycle gang. A wild, harsh but also funny portrayal of Chinese teenage life.
The Cold Winter
The Chinese state's shabby treatment of its independent artists comes into sharp focus in Zheng Kuo's epic documentation of the enforced evictions from three "artist colonies" in East Beijing during the freezing winter of 2010/11. Featuring chinese artist Ai Weiwei The Cold Winter is a spirited contribution to the fight for grass-roots democracy in China.
Searching For Sugar Man
Rodriguez was the greatest 70s US rock icon who never was. Momentarily hailed as the finest recording artist of his generation, he disappeared into oblivion – rising again from the ashes in a completely different context. An extraordinary film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music.
20 Feet From Stardom
Academy-award winning documentary. A feel-good celebration of the unknown voices behind music's most recognisable hits. Neville tells the tales of five backing singers – Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Judith Hill, Claudia Lennear and Lisa Fischer.
THE GREAT FLOOD + Director Q&A
The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 remains the biggest in American history. This mesmerising new doc from filmmaker Bill Morrison is created from hours of archive footage from 1927 and set to a score by jazz legend Bill Frisell.
TIM'S VERMEER + Special Intro by Philip Steadman
Inventor Tim Jenison obsessively seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer in this entertaining doc from magicians Penn and Teller.
ALONE + Discussion
From acclaimed director Wang Bing, Alone is a compassionate portrayal of three young sisters, left to fend for themselves in an impoverished village in China.
DANGEROUS ACTS STARRING THE UNSTABLE ELEMENTS OF BELARUS + Q&A
Director Madeleine Sackler goes behind the scenes with an acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers defying Europe's last remaining dictatorship.
PINE RIDGE
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...
RETURN TO HOMS + Q&A with Orwa Nyrabia
This searing portrait of young revolutionaries fighting in Homs, Syria, takes us deep inside the besieged city over two harrowing years.
THE ARMSTRONG LIE
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney captures the unravelling of one of the most extraordinary stories in sporting history: superstar cyclist Lance Armstrong's doping scandal.
In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) shows how a filmmaker's first documentary was instrumental in indicting Ríos Montt.
STOP-OVER + Panel Discussion
A close-quarter portrait of a group of undocumented Iranian immigrants who are stranded and struggling to survive in Athens. Intimate and unflinching, Stop-Over is a rare insight into the dehumanising effects of life in limbo.
THE TURTLE'S RAGE + Director Q&A
Filmmaker Pary El-Qalqili's Palestinian father has always been an enigma to her, spending his days grieving the loss of his homeland in the basement of their Berlin home...
THE UNKNOWN KNOWN + Director Q&A
Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris offers a gripping exploration of the controversial career and philosophy of Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S Secretary of Defence, and a principal architect of the Iraq war.
THE DEVIL'S LAIR + Director Q&A
Set in the Cape Flats, South Africa's murder capital, this is an unflinching, intimate and extraordinary portrait of an ageing gangster torn between resolving a deadly turf war, and securing the future of his young family.
PLOT FOR PEACE + Q&A with Jean-Yves Ollivier
With the pace and intrigue of a spy thriller, Plot for Peace tells the extraordinary story of the French businessman - Jean-Yves Ollivier - who worked behind the scenes to unite South Africa's neighbouring states against racial division.
WHO WILL BE A GURKHA
An unprecedented look at the 200 year old British military tradition of recruiting young Nepalese men for The Brigade of Gurkhas...