An exceptionally timely and vital look at the UK's complicated relationship with its migrant communities, and the evolution of the 'hostile environment'.
Nicholas Bourne has always looked out for his younger brother Alex who has Down’s Syndrome. Alex is now 24 and Nick realises that the future holds challenges and perhaps some big sacrifices on his part.
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.
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.
In this fascinating festival favourite, Director Pernille Rose Grønkjær explores how the medical community is transforming lives through Deep Brain Stimulation.
In a deserted Macedonian village, 50-something Hatidze, clambers up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks; but disruption is coming. With beautiful cinematography evocative of Caravaggio, Honeyland explores nature’s vulnerability under capitalist demand.
In this masterfully constructed festival hit, we hear from a broad array of thinkers and scientists about how we are on the brink of a revolution that allows us to tinker with the building blocks of civilization. But is that a power we really want to have?
Ten Londoners bring the stories of their lives to this arrestingly original collaboration between artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and theatre-maker Adrian Jackson.
With a soundtrack that will have you dancing in your seat, if not in the street, Hitsville: The Making of Motown chronicles the astronomical success and enduring cultural impact of Motown Records.
This year is the 25th anniversary of this classic documentary film. Hoop Dreams follows two teenagers from inner-city Chicago as they work hard to escape systemic oppression and achieve the American Dream through professional basketball careers.
Abandoned in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert ever since Morocco drove them out of the Western Sahara forty years ago, the Sahrawis are a forgotten people.
The rise and fall of one of America’s most iconic fashion designers who dominated the scene in the 1970s. A self-made prodigy, Halston was a rebel and shocked the New York fashion scene with his revolutionary approach.
In a small fishing community in Denmark, 926 Thai women are married to Danish men. Heartbound explores the story of Sommai, who married a Danish man and began helping other Thai women find love in Denmark
A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year-old boy who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write.
Alina has loved football since the she was a small child. Now a premier league player, she dreams of making the Ukrainian women’s football team. But she faces enormous challenges - including the fact that a chaotic home life has left her in charge of raising her young siblings.
The red sun rises and sets; forked lightning illuminates the sky. As time passes on Alabama’s Black Belt, life below in the Hale County community continues its daily trajectories.
Screening as part of Hot Docs London - bringing a selection of favourites from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, exclusively to London 26 - 28 Oct.
Screening as part of Hot Docs London - bringing a selection of favourites from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, exclusively to London 26 - 28 Oct.
HOT DOCS LONDON: THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
Screening as part of Hot Docs London - bringing a selection of favourites from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, exclusively to London 26 - 28 Oct.
Screening as part of Hot Docs London - bringing a selection of favourites from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, exclusively to London 26 - 28 Oct.
Young, wilful and headstrong, Walaa has set her sights on becoming one of the few women in the Palestinian Security Forces - a big challenge for a girl who breaks all the rules.