MINDING THE GAP
Bing Liu started filming himself and his skater friends when they were teens; hanging out at skate parks, learning new tricks and mucking about. When one his friends becomes a young father, he begins to reflect on the father figures in their lives.
MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen chronicled by documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield.
MEETING GORBACHEV
Legendary director Werner Herzog meets the former President of the Soviet Union for a series of exclusive one-on-one interviews with the man who ended the Cold War.
MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn.
MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND
An incredible look at how sound is used in the filmmaking process featuring notable sound designers and film directors known for working closely with designers.
MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE
Delving beneath the public persona of the charismatic ‘Rock God’, Mystify: Michael Hutchence reveals a multifaceted and sensitive man. Hutchence had explosive magnetism, but also many secrets; his story emerges here with emotional and revelatory depth.
MOTHER
Two narratives collide in a small village in Thailand. Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s, while a family prepares to leave Switzerland, in this moving observation of motherhood and care.
MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN
After his forensic analysis of Hitchcock’s Psycho, director Alexandre O. Philippe returns to dig into the mythological roots of Alien, its artistic origins, and place in our history and collective unconscious.
MERATA: HOW MUM DECOLONISED THE SCREEN
Juggling motherhood, activism and filmmaking, Merata Mita was a trailblazer and a dynamic figure in New Zealand politics. Her film archivist son Heperi Mita delves into her story to create this rich and personal portrait of the first female Maori filmmaker.
MONROVIA, INDIANA
Forty-six million Americans live in rural, small town America. These towns were once the backbone of American life. In this poetic observational film, documentary master Frederick Wiseman takes us to one such place, Monrovia, Indiana, immersing us in the rhythms and daily life of the place.
MAIDEN
The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
MASTER AND TATYANA
He was a tireless photographer of the common man in his native Lithuania; she was his beautiful muse and life partner. From their pet lion cub to their legendary parties, they lived life on the edge, until a sudden tragedy ended everything.
MCQUEEN
McQueen is an electric and engrossing documentary that is both rich with footage from his most famous catwalk shows and a sensitive portrait of the soul behind the stitch.
MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A
As bold and uncompromising as the artist herself, this captivating portrait of British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. discovers the complex life behind her music.
MAGIC MEDICINE + Q&A
Can magic mushrooms cure depression? Over 2 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
MILFORD GRAVES FULL MANTIS + Q&A
DocHouse presents at Peckham Springs! The first in a series of one-off screenings of DocHouse favourites at the South London venue.
MCKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART
Celebrate one of Britain’s true acting icons, Sir Ian McKellen.
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.
MY GENERATION
This engaging and playful documentary, narrated by and starring the inimitable Michael Caine, chronicles the cultural revolution of the Swinging Sixties and the societal upheaval it caused, which still resonates today.
MOUNTAIN
This gloriously cinematic essay chronicles the spellbinding attraction of mountains and humanity’s desire to scale their heights. Mountain is an ode to the beauty, mystery, and power of the world’s highest peaks.
MAKALA
A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to offer his family a better future. When he sets out on an exhausting, perilous journey to sell the fruit of his labour, he discovers the true value of his efforts, and the price of his dreams.