Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Brett Morgen’s (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) feature length experiential cinematic odyssey explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey.
What happens when sixteen emerging filmmakers are given access to the BBC archives to create a new short film to mark the BBC centenary? Developed with mentoring from professional filmmakers who use archive film in their practice, these new films uncover the forgotten histories of underrepresented communities, on themes including the environment, mental health, youth culture and cultural diversity.
Music is My Life tells the story of South African musician, the late Joseph Shabalala, who rose to international fame with his band Ladysmith Black Mambazo after contributing to Paul Simon’s massively successful Graceland album.
In western Myanmar, two women defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic, treating Rohingya women where no-one else will. Over five years, we witness their complicated relationship, amid ever-increasing chaos and violence in Rakhine State.
My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan
A real-life epic, My Childhood, My Country follows the life of a 7-year old Afghan boy, Mir Hussain over 20 years, as he grows from child to man to father in one of the most embattled countries in the world.
The stranger-than-fiction tale from 1990s Glasgow of a schoolboy who was not quite what he seemed...
The definitive portrait of one of the most explosive and compelling sports icons of all time.
Nearly 50 years after the death of his twin brother at the age of 29, Italian film director Marco Bellocchio gathers his family to reconstruct Camillo’s disappearance.
A TV news cameraman finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Winner of the top prize at IDFA, Mr. Landsbergis tells an absorbing story of the Luthianuan nation's fight for independence between 1988 and 1993. This epic documentary focuses on music professor Vytautas Landsbergis, who by the will of fate became the first Head of Parliament of Lithuania after it left the Soviet Union.
André and Albert are two young Aka pygmies from Mongoumba, near the border with Congo and DRC. In spite of their financial difficulties and the stigma they face at school, André and Albert fight to study and bring themselves up to the level of other students.
A warm and generous portrait of a Welsh male voice choir with an average age of 74, Men Who Sing follows the filmmaker's father, Ed, and the gang as they set out to compete for the first time in twenty years.
A powerful investigation into the unsolved murder of anti-Apartheid activist Dulcie September, travelling from the heart of Paris in March 1988 to the pursuit of justice in 2021.
Misha Defonseca's holocaust survival memoir took the world by storm, until her publisher-turned-detective revealed an audacious deception hiding a much darker truth.
During a trip to the US, Ieva’s father - a KGB employee about to defect, offered her a blunt choice: take a taxi to the Soviet Embassy and denounce him as a traitor, or stay with him and never see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again.
Join us for a deep-dive into My Octopus Teacher, the Oscar-nominated story of a unique relationship between a diver and a charismatic octopus, set in the spectacular under-sea world off the tip of South Africa.
An intimate and inspiring portrait of Vietnamese protest singer Mai Khoi, who gave up her place in the limelight to fight for freedom of speech, human rights and democracy in Vietnam.
There’s a severe lack of government ambulances in Mexico city - so families like the Ochoas have stepped into the breach. At night they scour the streets of the city in their second hand ambulance, coming to the aid of those in need - from whom they have to ask for payment.
A musical odyssey following four renowned musicians surviving in a country where secular music is under threat.
When the Taliban threatens filmmaker Hassan Fazili’s life, he goes on the run with his wife and two small daughters. Filmed entirely on their mobile phones, this festival favourite places us deep inside the refugee journey.
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen chronicled by documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield.