Citizen Ashe is the story of a champion athlete and the defining moments that lead to his activism and his pursuit of social justice for all.
How helpful is development aid from the Global North? In crisis-ridden eastern Congo, three European development aid workers are forced to question what it means to help.
Journey across Eastern Europe and the Balkans with our selection of short docs from this year’s Calvert Journal Film Festival
Activists and volunteers work through the darkest days of 2020, galvanizing social change amidst chaos as governments start to fail local communities. This epic, globally spanning and deeply passionate documentary serves as a clarion call that great change can be born of crisis.
The Oscar-nominated Collective follows a team of investigative journalists whose tireless work uncovers a shocking fraud, revealing the price of corruption and ultimately, the price of truth.
With a vaccine now in play, and a whole new year unfolding, now seems the perfect time to reflect. With our latest filmmaking competition, we invite you to tell us what getting back to looking forward to the future means to you.
The 5th edition of our short docs competition invites people to make a 3 minute short on the theme of 'Brave New World'.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities.
See the short films that perfectly embodied the oddities/ambivalence of the lockdown, and managed to forge some creative hope out of 2020.
The 4th edition of our filmmaking competition invites people to make a 6-10 minute short on the theme of 'Re-emergence,' and we'll have free workshops too.
A visceral immersion into the creative process of visionary choreographer Merce Cunningham. Now, when you watch online, you can donate 10% of your purchase to a cinema of your choice.
The story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah. Featuring never seen before archive which had been hidden for decades.
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.
Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore + Q&A
Everyone from Tim Burgess to Ariel Pink is singing his praises, but R. Stevie Moore always refused the mainstream and never made it big. Now, in his sixties, with his body not working quite like it used to, he's hitting the road on a world tour. And he's not making it easy for anyone.
Focussing on the $30 billion 'pre-wedding' photography industry, Olivia Martin-McGuire explores how China has developed from its traditional past, and how the new China Dream applies to romance.
Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney turns his incisive lens on modern day Russia, through the astonishing story of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
CLEANIN' UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS + Q&A (14TH JAN)
Thirty-five years after its release, Ghostbusters continues to enchant fans around the world. Find out how an eccentric idea became movie magic in this definitive making-of documentary.
A collection of works contemplating the social impact of architectural transformation, led by Xiaolu Guo’s brave and intelligent film on the moral and human cost of creating a ‘New China’ in The Concrete Revolution.
See the landmark Handsworth Songs by the Black Audio Film Collective, a richly-layered inquiry into the hopes and dreams of post-war Black British people in the light of civil disturbances in the 1980s.
Chantal Akerman’s meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection is part of the UCL Urban Laboratory series City, Essay, Film.
City, Essay, Film is a series of events hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory to examine the concept and practice of the ‘urban essay film’. This opening screening showcases a number of exemplary urban shorts from across the globe.