MOUNTAIN
This gloriously cinematic essay chronicles the spellbinding attraction of mountains and humanity’s desire to scale their heights. Mountain is an ode to the beauty, mystery, and power of the world’s highest peaks.
Best of 2017: THE FARTHEST
The captivating story behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, the twin spacecrafts which revolutionized our understanding of our own solar system.
Best of 2017: DANCER
Dancer offers a uniquely personal portrait of a most singular man and dancer. Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal.
Best of 2017: THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries.
Best of 2017: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck reimagines James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, with this radical and incendiary examination of race in America, connecting the narratives of past and present.
HUMAN FLOW
Artist, activist and director Ai Weiwei captures the global refugee crisis - the greatest human displacement since World War II - in this breathtakingly epic film journey.
Best of 2017: LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD
The dramatic story of writer, explorer, spy and political powerhouse Gertrude Bell.
Best of 2017: CITY OF GHOSTS
A handful of anonymous Syrian activists banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014 under the name ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.’ City of Ghosts tells their story.
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD
Meet Salim Shaheen, Afghanistan’s most prolific actor/director, as he embarks on the production of his 111th film. This entertaining portrait of his unique approach to filmmaking explores a lifetime spent pursuing a dream.
JANE
Crafted from never-seen-before archive footage, acclaimed filmmaker Brett Morgen tells the extraordinary and inspiring story of British primatologist Jane Goodall and the profound effect the animals she loved had on her life.
CANIBA + Q&A via Skype
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's Caniba is the latest project from the innovative Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.
DOLORES
Dolores Huerta is an indomitable civil rights activist largely forgotten by history. Director Peter Bratt sets the record straight with this intimate and energising documentary on her life and achievements.
LONG TIME RUNNING
No other band encapsulates the rugged rock 'n' roll soul of Canada like The Tragically Hip. When it was announced last year that singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, it looked like the end of the road.
LOVE, CECIL
Love, Cecil tracks the illustrious career of the celebrated and sometimes controversial photographer and costume designer, Cecil Beaton, with equal amounts of affection and frankness.
KARL MARX CITY + Dir. Q&A
A powerfully personal voyage through former East Germany, as filmmaker Petra Epperlein investigates her father’s suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the Stasi security service.
NO STONE UNTURNED
In 1994, six men were gunned down in a pub while watching a World Cup soccer match in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney reopens the original case to investigate why no culprit was ever brought to justice.
THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN
Over five years Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, documented his family, his village and the effects of climate change on both. Thank You for the Rain captures his journey to becoming a community leader and an activist on the global stage.
TROPHY
As endangered African species like elephants, rhinos and lions march closer to extinction each year, Trophy delves into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation.
GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI
An electrifying journey through the performance, private and public worlds pop cultural icon Grace Jones. From director Sophie Fiennes, the film reimagines the music doc, contrasting breath-taking musical sequences with intimate personal footage.
COMPLICIT + Dir. Q&A
Complicit follows Chinese factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting as he takes on the global electronic industry in a bid to defend the lives of millions of Chinese people from becoming terminally ill due to working conditions.
THE LAST ANIMALS
Conflict photographer Kate Brooks turns her lens from the war zones she is used to covering to a new kind of genocide - the killing of African Elephants and Rhinos - in this sweeping and sobering expose of an underreported crisis.