Hubert Sauper's Epicentro is an immersive cine-poem that winds through the streets and lives of Havana, Cuba, at a critical moment in the country's history.
Explore the life of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and his worldwide influence on modern art and popular culture today, told in his own words voiced by Stephen Fry.
As part of our 4th doc-making competition Marc Isaacs kicks off our workshop series with tips on interviewing from behind the camera.
British and American governments have employed horrific mind control techniques on prisoners for years. Eminent Monsters exposes how these practices were developed in collusion with psychiatrists, experimenting on their own patients.
EXTINCTION REBELLION PRESENTS: THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER + Q&A
Filmed 50 summers ago, The Moon and the Sledgehammer is a poetic and eccentric classic of British nonfiction filmmaking, that we’re excited to be screening on the Autumn Equinox.
A moving portrait of the Malaysian blind youth football team, as they strive to qualify for the world championships, overcome obstacles along the way, and ultimately reach for their dreams.
Part of Say What Happened - Nick Fraser selects, a series of films curated by former Storyville editor and BAFTA award winner to coincide with the launch of his new book.
EXTINCTION REBELLION PRESENT: HOW TO START A REVOLUTION + Dir Q&A
This BAFTA Award-winning film tells the remarkable story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution.
Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans – with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people, in mines, quarries and construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
In this tender insight into the bumpy road of nurse-training, Director of the brilliant Etre et Avoir Nicholas Philibert explores how young students learn to cope with people in their most vulnerable moments Each and Every Moment (De chaque instant).
Ella Fitzgerald was 15 years old when she won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater and rose to meteoric success. With access to never-before-seen archives, this is an intimate account of the incredibly innovative musician.
Director Orlando von Einsiedel turns the camera on himself in this deeply personal film, as he and his siblings embark on a journey in remembrance of their brother, Evelyn, who took his own life over a decade ago.
The latest film from legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Ex Libris invites you to spend three hours behind the scenes at the New York Public Library, one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning.
Haunting and hypnotic, Salomé Lamas' essay film explores the fluid borders of the former soviet union.
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.
An intimate and revealing musical odyssey on the life and career of guitar virtuoso Eric Clapton, told by those who have known him best.
From the team behind Earth, an astonishing look at the power of the natural world over the course of one single day tracking the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands and from exotic jungles to urban landscapes.
The story of Frank Zappa - self-taught composer, musician, bandleader, producer and independent thinker - who first transcribed his avant-garde, Varèse-influenced compositions at just fourteen.
The first of two LGBTI Human Rights Activism and Film events organised by the ‘School of Advanced Study’ as part of the Being Human Festival 2015.
This event will focus on the experiences of the Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights transnational project (www.envisioninglgbt.com) in its innovative work with grassroots activists in participatory video film-making, to document the experiences and human rights struggles of LGBTI people.
Based on an essay by best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen (Executive Producer), Emptying the Skies investigates the rampant slaughter of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.
When reports emerge of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch sends emergency investigators to document violations and reveal them to the world. These specialist investigators, the first on the ground, are the E-Team.