OCDF 2018: BREAKING NEWS
Screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival hosted at DocHouse - 4th - 9th September.
OCDF 2018: SHORTS - INTERIORS
Short film programme screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4th - 9th September.
OCDF 2018: KINSHASA MAKAMBO
Screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4th - 9th September.
Masterclass event part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4-9th September.
OCDF 2018: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS - LOVE SONG 1974
Screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4th-9th September.
OF FATHERS AND SONS
In this brave, unflinching documentary, director Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT
Composed entirely of found online footage, Maxim Pozdorovkin’s jaw-dropping fever-dream of a documentary tracks the 2016 US election through the lens of the Russian propaganda machine.
OSCARS SHORTS 2018
Join us for this special showcase of the 2018 Oscars Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominees. A diverse selection of eye-opening short films, which will be competing for this year’s award.
One World Media presents Fresh Eyes on the World – a screening of short documentary films by emerging talent.
OUAGA GIRLS
A group of young women tweak machines and hammer away at a school for auto mechanics in Burkina Faso in this poetic story about life choices, sisterhood and the endeavour to find your own way.
OUR LAST TANGO
Our Last Tango is the story of the two most famous dancers in tango’s history, María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes. Now in their 80’s, they open up about their tumultuous relationship and their undying passion for tango.
On The Line: RAILWAY SLEEPERS
When trains were first introduced to Thailand in the 1890’s, they were seen as a step towards progress and prosperity but instead, the train system remained frozen in time due to corruption and inefficient management.
On the Line: THE IRON MINISTRY
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation.
Open City: A MOON OF NICKEL AND ICE + Q&A
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the billowing smoke and sulphur of its mills and factories. Originally built by Gulag prisoners under Stalin...
Open City: GAGARIN'S PIONEERS
Vitaly Mansky embarks on a journey to track down his old school friends and fellow Young Pioneers with whom, as a child growing up in Lvov, Ukraine, he pledged allegiance to the Soviet motherland and the principles of communism.
Open City: THE LURE + Q&A (SOLD OUT)
With the astonishing New Mexican Rocky Mountains as backdrop, we meet Forrest Fenn - an eccentric Air Force veteran and art dealer who decided to hide a treasure worth $3 million - and a series of fanatic treasure hunters lured in to the American West with the goal of decoding Fenn’s cryptic instructions.
On The Line: ALL THAT PASSES BY THROUGH A WINDOW THAT DOESN'T OPEN + SLEEPERS' BEAT
All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn’t Open captures the laying of the tracks with breath-taking imagery as across the closed borders of Eurasia, men wait and dream, trying to suppress regret and fear by connecting with one another and the dreams of a better future.
Open City: PRIVATE CHRONICLES. MONOLOGUE
Exploring the collective life of the generation born as Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Mansky worked with over 5000 hours of home movies to create this unique chronicle of everyday life in the Soviet Union.
Open City: VITALY MANSKY MASTERCLASS
Open City Documentary Festival begin their Vitaly Mansky focus with this Masterclass event, during which Mansky will discuss his wide-ranging and prolific career as well as his approach to his filmmaking practice.
On The Line: IN TRANSIT
In Transit journeys into the hearts and minds of everyday passengers aboard Amtrak's Empire Builder, the busiest long-distance train route in America.
On The Line: TURKSIB & NIGHT MAIL
With bold and exhilarating flair, Turksib charts the monumental efforts to build a railway linking the regions of Turkestan and Siberia in 1920s USSR.