Special Event: SAVING MES AYNAK + panel
The story of a race against time to save Afghanistan's 5,000-year-old archaeological site 'Mes Aynak', which is under threat right now.
1971, 5th June 2015
Before Watergate, Wikileaks and Edward Snowden there was Media, Pennsylvania. On March 8, 1971 eight anti-war activists broke into an FBI field office and stole every document they found.
ME AND ME DAD
An unconventional look at film director John Boorman, director of Point Blank, Excalibur, Deliverance and Hope and Glory, by one who should know him best - his daughter Katrine.
Open City: INVASION + Director Q&A
Director Abner Benaim's ambitious project to recreate the 1989 invasion of Panama through personal recounts and fictionalised reconstructions confronts the reliability of non-fiction filmmaking as well as questioning human remembrance and the collective memory of a country.
Open City: MITCH - THE DIARY OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT
An autobiographical portrait of a 40-year-old artist living with schizophrenia, who under the guidance of co-director Damir Čučić undergoes several years of “film therapy”.
Open City: TOTO AND HIS SISTERS + Q&A
Following his Emmy award-winning observational documentary, Alexander Nanau brings us the astonishing family story of Toto (10) and his sisters Ana (17) and Andreea (15).
Open City: DANIEL'S WORLD + Q&A
Daniel, a 25-year-old literature student, has had to come to terms with his identity. He is a homosexual paedophile and an active member of an online Czech community who choose not to act on their sexual impulses.
Open City: THE CHIMPANZEE COMPLEX + Q&A
After years in captivity being raised by humans, the chimpanzees in a Dutch rescue centre face the challenge of resocializing with their own species.
Open City: HONEY AT THE TOP + Q&A
Honey at the Top is a film about the Sengwer forest people of the Cherangani Hills, Kenya, being evicted from their ancestral land in the name of conservation.
London Premiere: THE LOOK OF SILENCE + Dir. Q&A
Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to The Act of Killing focuses on the victims of the brutal genocide in Indonesia in 1965.
ALMOST THERE + Directors Q&A
A coming-of-(old)-age story about 83-year-old Peter Anton, an "outsider" artist living in isolated conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and uncover his troubled past.
AARON WICKENDEN EDITING MASTERCLASS
Join one of the most exciting editors working in documentary today, for a special masterclass at the Bertha DocHouse screen.
ART AND CRAFT
Art and Craft starts out as a cat-and-mouse art caper, rooted in questions of authenticity and forgery—but what emerges is an intimate story of obsession.
F FOR FAKE, 6th June 2015
In celebration of Mark Cousin's The Eyes of Orson Welles, DocHouse returns to the last film Orson Welles would complete during his lifetime - an innovative masterpiece, now recognised as a cinema classic.
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG
Forever ruffling feathers Susan Sontag was a formidable, rebellious voice in American politics and culture. Director Nancy Kates chronicles the life of the rock star intellectual's fiercely guarded life beneath the spotlight.
THE TRUE COST
As the price of our clothes decreases, the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost pulls back the curtain on an untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our cheaper clothes?
3 World Stories: WALKING UNDER WATER
In the crystal clear waters off the coast of Borneo, Alexan is teaching his 10-year-old nephew, Sari, everything he knows, from ancient dangerous diving techniques to his tribes wisdom about the underwater world.
WE ARE MANY
On February 15th 2003, up to 30 million people demonstrated against the impending Iraq War. We Are Many is the story of the largest global demonstration in human history and how a small band of activists changed the world.
3 World Stories: MY NAME IS SALT
Winner of Best Documentary at last year's Edinburgh Film Festival, My Name is Salt is a striking debut which details the life of one family as they attempt a seemingly impossible task.
3 World Stories: SUMMER PASTURE
Summer Pasture is a very modern love story set in an ancient culture. The film deftly captures a young couple’s domestic life with humour and empathy; while also showing how the lure of modern life threatens centuries of tradition.
LAMBERT & STAMP
The inside story of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, aspiring film directors from opposite sides of the tracks who form an unlikely partnership, leading them to discover and manage the iconic band that would become The Who.