THE BOOKSELLERS + DIRECTOR Q&A
Enjoy a Q&A showing of D.W. Young’s lively tour of New York's book scene. ‘A treat for anyone that appreciates the printed word’ - The Hollywood Reporter
WELCOME TO CHECHNYA: THE GAY PURGE + DIRECTOR Q&A
On the eve of London Pride, Bertha DocHouse teams up with BBC Storyville to discuss the persecution the LGBTQ+ community faces in Chechnya.
We invite our very talented community to share their creative responses to the lived experience of self-isolation caused by COVID-19. Entries can include short docs and docu-dramas, but it must contain archive material.
Refugee Week: Inside My Heart + Online Director Q&A
Bertha DocHouse and the High Commission of Canada in the UK present this powerful & inspiring film about the hardships of refugees to mark Refugee Week and World Refugee Day.
RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT + Q&A
For thirty years, Marion Stokes secretly video-taped everything on TV, twenty-four hours a day. She witnessed the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle, which burgeoned across the channels and transformed the way we receive - and dispose of - news.
DocHouse Watch Party: Krabi, 2562 + Q&A
Join us for an online Q&A with one of the UK's most interesting documentary artists, as he presents his film on a small Thai town where native cultures collide with the demands of capitalistic tourism.
POSTPONED - LEMEBEL + Panel Discussion
Writer, visual artist, performer and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shakes up the conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's brutal dictatorship in 1980s.
As part of filmmaking series we're running with archive specialists, London's Screen Archive's David Whorlow will speak to Raindance Film Festival about his best advice for filmmakers wanting to make an archive doc.
FRONTIERLAND: SHORTS (LIVESTREAM + Q&A)
Join us for a co-presented online screening of a programme of short works, the first event in a planned larger series entitled 'Frontierland,' curated by Pamela Cohn and Open City Documentary Festival.
POSTPONED - SELFIE
Can you ever really understand life from the perspective of teenagers? Agostino Ferrente gets us close by handing a cameraphone to Alessandro and Pietro.
POSTPONED - ADOLESCENTS
In this beautifully observed cinema vérité film, we spend five years watching best friends Emma and Anaïs, who are growing up in a provincial French town.
We know it's not easy to go out and make a film safely at the moment, part of our 'New Reveries: The Power of Archive Now' competition, we're inviting people from all round the world to spark a golden age of archive documentaries from home.
Dr. Shane O'Sullivan joined us on Thursday the 21st of May for a workshop on archive filmmaking.
DocHouse Watch Party: Park Avenue - Money, Power and The American Dream + Online Q&A
Academy Award winner Alex Gibney exposes the increasing power of the corporate elite over Washington and gets to grips with who really runs American politics.
We're in the process of trying to set up our very first online documentary pub quiz, the niche lockdown evening recreation party you didn't know you needed.
DOCHOUSE WATCH PARTY: THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING + Q&A
Moving back and forth between the personal and the political, filmmaker Mila Turajlic turns her mother's life story into a portrait of Belgrade following the turbulent break up of the former Yugoslavia.
DOCHOUSE WATCH PARTY: DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE + Q&A
Our next watch party takes us back to a landmark observational classic, Kim Longinotto's intimate look at the lives of women in an Iran, told from inside an Iranian divorce court.
POSTPONED - THE SPACE: THEATRE OF SURVIVAL + Q&A
In 1972 at the height of the apartheid struggle in South Africa, a group of artists risked everything to build a safe space dedicated to all freedoms—artistic, social and political.
DOCHOUSE WATCH PARTY: NETFLIX - HAIL SATAN? + ONLINE Q&A
A group of Satanists from Salem are rocking religious and political institutions with their demands for equal rights, and also leading the way with compassion, empathy and community care.
In this time of physical distancing, DocHouse and the Royal Anthropological Insititute (RAI) Film Fest team up to celebrate the social worlds that exist in virtual space.
DOCHOUSE WATCH PARTY: THE WHALEBONE BOX + Q&A
Join us on Fri 3 Apr at 7pm to watch Andrew Kötting's The Whalebone Box on MUBI, plus a Zoom director's Q&A at 8:30pm. In partnership with HOME Manchester.