ALL THE WILD HORSES + Q&A
A visually cinematic adventure documentary, All The Wild Horses follows the Mongol Derby horse race in Mongolia; the longest horse race in the world.
A CAMBODIAN SPRING + Q&A
Filmed over 6 years, A Cambodian Spring is an intimate portrait of three Cambodian citizens caught up in the chaotic and often violent political uprising currently shaping modern-day Cambodia.
THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR
In 1944 in Alabama, Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black woman, was raped by six white men. Against formidable odds, Taylor pressed charges, shifting the course of the Civil Rights Movement. Nancy Buirsky's illuminating documentary remembers a woman who continues to inspire in today's #MeToo Movement.
GREY GARDENS
A chance to see the Maysles brothers best loved film about a pair of reclusive New York socialites who live together in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion.
NAMATJIRA PROJECT + Q&A
Pioneering Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira carved out his place in art history with his expressionist landscapes. Yet when the copyright to his work was posthumously sold off, his family take up the fight to restore his legacy.
THE OUTSIDER
The Wolf of Wall Street for the shipping industry, The Outsider is a slick documentary that gains unique access to the early moments of a banking scandal and the daily life of one of the world’s most inventive businessmen.
THAT SUMMER + Q&A
Directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, That Summer centres on the film project artist Peter Beard initiated together with the incandescent Lee Radziwill about her relatives: the Beales of Grey Gardens.
LOTS OF KIDS, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE
Spanish matriarch Julia had three childhood wishes: to have lots of kids, a monkey and a castle. Yet when the financial crash hits, she must adapt to a new way of life in this affectionate and often hilarious docu-portrait.
KOUDELKA: SHOOTING HOLY LAND
Director Gilad Baram, the assistant of renowned Czech photographer Josef Koudelka, follows him on a journey through the Holy Land from one enigmatic and visually spectacular location to another.
NEW TOWN UTOPIA + Q&A
From Utopian dreams to concrete realities, New Town Utopia charts the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.
MAYSKAYA STREET
18-yr-old Kostia takes us around his sleepy village in Belarus meeting his family and friends, in this atmospheric observation of small-town life in a country stifled by an autocratic president.
THE POETESS
Speaking out against oppression, extremism and her patriarchal society, Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal storms her way through the rounds of the Arab world’s biggest televised poetry competition in this inspiring film.
EXTINCTION
Haunting and hypnotic, Salomé Lamas' essay film explores the fluid borders of the former soviet union.
RECRUITING FOR JIHAD UK Premiere + Director Q&A
A powerful, insightful and disturbing glimpse at a religious fundamentalism in Europe today, that gets rare access to extremist groups in Norway and London.
SHADOW WORLD
Stitching together archive footage of historical events, recent interviews with political experts and an eerily nostalgic soundtrack, Shadow World is the masterful documentary from Johan Grimonprez that exposes the depths of corruption within the global arms trade.
THE DEMINER
With nail-biting tension, The Deminer follows an extraordinary man on a personal mission to dismantle the thousands of deadly landmines still littering Iraq, armed only with a pocket knife and a wire-cutter.
WITHOUT THIS WORLD
An extraordinary portrait of a quiet society on the cusp between isolation and change, Without this World observes the closed community of Mennonites living an 18th Century life in the rural Argentina.
EVEN WHEN I FALL
A group of young trafficking survivors reclaim the breath-taking skills they learnt in corrupt Indian circuses to forge a future for themselves back home in Nepal, setting up Circus Kathmandu.
ANOTHER NEWS STORY
Starting at the beach on Lesbos, Another News Story travels across Europe alongside refugees, turning the camera on the international journalists who follow them and the role they play in representing the crisis to the world.
BLUE ORCHIDS + Q&A
Two perspectives on the global arms trade from experts at different ends of the spectrum – a former war correspondent and an arms trade dealer. Through archive footage and close-up interviews, Johan Grimonprez’ follow up to Shadow World is a thoughtful and at times shocking provocation of the devastating effects of war.
SLOVO HOUSE
Taras Tomenko’s gripping Slovo House conjures up the vibrant community of writers in 1920's Ukraine, and traces how this supposed paradise turned into a living hell.