THE PEDDLER
Meet Daniel Burmeister, the most prolific filmmaker you've never heard of.
THE BROTHERS WARNER (UK Premiere)
n intimate portrait and saga of the four film pioneers who founded and ran Warner Bros. Studios for over fifty years. The story of a family who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies, persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
THE LAST RITES
The Last Rites depicts the ship breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh - a final destination for ships that are too old to ply the oceans any longer.
THE GARDEN + Director Q&A
The story of a massive urban allotment in South Central Los Angeles.
THE MONA LISA CURSE + Dir. Q&A
The Mona Lisa Curse is a timely polemic by internationally renowned art critic Robert Hughes which examines how the world's most famous painting came to influence the art world. With his trademark style, Hughes explores how museums,the production of art and the way we experience it, have radically changed in the last 50 years.
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer. They have an unusual hobby, posing as top executives of Corporations they hate.
THRILLER IN MANILA + Dir. Q&A
Joe Frazier, now 63, takes us on an emotional journey back to 1975 and the most hyped boxing match in history. Frazier has never forgiven Ali for his racial taunting calling Frazier 'Gorilla' and 'Uncle Tom'.
THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE + Panel Q&A
A one-off chance to see this classic award-winning documentary examining the tragic events that unfolded in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
THE BEACHES OF AGNES
It’s her 80th birthday so Agnes Varda makes a brilliant autobiographical film, playing with memories and the artefacts of time.
THE GLEANERS AND I
Inspired by a 19th century painting of people gleaning the potatoes remaining after a harvest, Varda meets the modern-day gleaners who treasure and survive on abandoned items.
THE MASTERS OF THE HOUSE
Graziana, a young Italian woman, like so many of her generation aspires to a glittering career in the media. While trying to pass her law degree, she suddenly finds herself implicated in Prime Minister Berlusconi's infamous sex scandal saga. After such notoriety, what are her options in the Italy of Il Padrone di Casa?
TWOCKERS
Pawel made the transition to fiction in 1998 with this 50 minute hybrid film, a lyrical love story set on a sink estate in Yorkshire, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Ian Duncan. Trevor, played by a local boy, is a love-struck teenage criminal with a sideline in poetry, who tries to go straight in order to win the heart of his pregnant neighbour Amie.
THE CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Sebastian Moreno Mardones's documentary examines the legacy of Chilean photojournalists who risked death to record life under Pinochet's brutal regime.
Once described by Kurt Cobain as "the greatest songwriter on earth", Daniel Johnston is a man whose life has been defined not only by his musical talent but by his struggle with mental illness.
TRAVELLER
In 1965, photographer Alen MacWeeney embarked on a two-year project of photographing and recording the Travellers of Dublin and Galway. Nearly 35 years later, he returns to Ireland to find the travellers again. A haunting, poetic portrait of the Travelling community.
THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT
Little is known about Gao Jun, not even his age. Yet this young AIDS orphan reveals his ferocious resolve to live while his extended family weights up whether or not to keep him.
THESE GIRLS
Intensely engaging documentary following a band of rebellious teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo.
THE GROUND TRUTH: AFTER THE KILLING ENDS
The film takes an unflinching look at the training and dehumanisation of US soldiers, and how life in a war zone affects them physically and mentally.
THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA + Dir. Q&A
This award-winning, achingly beautiful documentary reveals how the Chechen War has affected children in both Russia and in Chechnya. Russian children are filmed at Kronstadt near St. Petersburg, where they are being trained as child soldiers.
THE FALL OF FUJIMORI
The Fall of Fujimori is political thriller exploring the volatile events that defined Fujimori's decade-long reign as the president of Peru. Since fleeing Peru in disgrace four years ago, Alberto Fujimori has remained virtually silent about the sensational end of his controversial presidency. Until now. Fujimori agreed to the first in-depth interview since his exile last January. The result is one of the most intimate and shocking looks at a modern dictator ever captured on film. Director Ellen Perry interweaves personal, up-close interviews with the exiled leader along with never-before-seen, exclusive footage from his regime.
THE BOYS OF BARAKA
With eighty percent of Baltimore's African American boys dropping out of high school and half of them ending up in jail, Mavis Jackson runs a programme to send twenty'at risk' twelve-year-olds to a school in Kenya for their 7th and 8th grade education. This fascinating documentary highlights the profound academic and cultural failings of the North American system and the changes and achievements of the youngsters, as we follow the group through the culture shock of swapping their inner-city streets for the Baraka School's strict disciplinary regime in the bush country of East Africa.