We've teamed up with One World Media for this fellowship showcase of documentary shorts that tell untold stories from across Africa.
Screening as part of their Earth in Crisis tour showcasing a series of Chinese eco-documentary films foregrounding the growing ecological emergency facing our planet.
One Child Nation spirals from the personal impact of China’s one-child policy on director Nanfu Wang’s family and out into the all-encompassing and traumatic power it held over a nation.
Shot in the style of a Hollywood thriller, this is the searing story of President Duterte’s bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war.
Found and archival materials are repurposed and reconstructed in this short film programme, setting up a series of unexpected collisions between analogue and digital media.
A bold and formally rigorous work, The Crosses bravely unearths a dark moment in Chile’s political history that for years had been buried in silence.
Shot entirely within the confines of the salon, Mbakam’s engaged, attentive camera reveals the reality of life in this little known corner of Brussels.
A small farming town in the Mexican state of Jalisco reflects on the suicide of a young horse-wrangler, slowly piecing together the events that led to his death.
Is there a viable alternative for commerce to that offered by capitalism? Taste of Hope offers one possibility in the form of a tea factory in France owned by a workers’ collective.
Andy Heathcote (The Moo Man) brings us crashing into a clash between two tribes – fisherman and animal activists – taking place off the Atlantic coast off Scotland.
OPEN CITY: SWEETGRASS + DISCUSSION
Join writer Joanna Pocock for a screening of Sweetgrass, followed by a discussion of her new book, Surrender, a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana.
Gay couple Kazu and Fumi are a rare pair in ultra-homogenous Japan. Both lawyers, they fight for the rights of the marginalised and the risk-takers, in pursuit of a more tolerant society and happiness.
Having survived the Yazidi genocide and escaped Isis sex slavery, Nadia Murad decided not to focus on her own healing, but instead fight for justice. We follow the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Winner as she brings the story to the world and becomes a UN goodwill ambassador for human trafficking.
Screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival hosted at DocHouse - 4th - 9th September.
Short film programme screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4th - 9th September.
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.
Screening as part of the Open City Documentary Festival programme hosted at DocHouse - 4th-9th September.
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.
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.
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.