LOTS OF KIDS, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE
Spanish matriarch Julia had three childhood wishes: to have lots of kids, a monkey and a castle. Yet when the financial crash hits, she must adapt to a new way of life in this affectionate and often hilarious docu-portrait.
KOUDELKA: SHOOTING HOLY LAND
Director Gilad Baram, the assistant of renowned Czech photographer Josef Koudelka, follows him on a journey through the Holy Land from one enigmatic and visually spectacular location to another.
NEW TOWN UTOPIA + Q&A
From Utopian dreams to concrete realities, New Town Utopia charts the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.
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.
THE POETESS
Speaking out against oppression, extremism and her patriarchal society, Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal storms her way through the rounds of the Arab world’s biggest televised poetry competition in this inspiring film.
EXTINCTION
Haunting and hypnotic, Salomé Lamas' essay film explores the fluid borders of the former soviet union.
RECRUITING FOR JIHAD UK Premiere + Director Q&A
A powerful, insightful and disturbing glimpse at a religious fundamentalism in Europe today, that gets rare access to extremist groups in Norway and London.
SHADOW WORLD
Stitching together archive footage of historical events, recent interviews with political experts and an eerily nostalgic soundtrack, Shadow World is the masterful documentary from Johan Grimonprez that exposes the depths of corruption within the global arms trade.
THE DEMINER
With nail-biting tension, The Deminer follows an extraordinary man on a personal mission to dismantle the thousands of deadly landmines still littering Iraq, armed only with a pocket knife and a wire-cutter.
WITHOUT THIS WORLD
An extraordinary portrait of a quiet society on the cusp between isolation and change, Without this World observes the closed community of Mennonites living an 18th Century life in the rural Argentina.
EVEN WHEN I FALL
A group of young trafficking survivors reclaim the breath-taking skills they learnt in corrupt Indian circuses to forge a future for themselves back home in Nepal, setting up Circus Kathmandu.
ANOTHER NEWS STORY
Starting at the beach on Lesbos, Another News Story travels across Europe alongside refugees, turning the camera on the international journalists who follow them and the role they play in representing the crisis to the world.
BLUE ORCHIDS + Q&A
Two perspectives on the global arms trade from experts at different ends of the spectrum – a former war correspondent and an arms trade dealer. Through archive footage and close-up interviews, Johan Grimonprez’ follow up to Shadow World is a thoughtful and at times shocking provocation of the devastating effects of war.
SLOVO HOUSE
Taras Tomenko’s gripping Slovo House conjures up the vibrant community of writers in 1920's Ukraine, and traces how this supposed paradise turned into a living hell.
SAFARI
Master provocateur Ulrich Seidl returns in unnerving style with a macabre examination of trophy hunting and the luxury tourist trade that accompanies it. A vacation movie about killing; a killer movie about human nature.
THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES
In their remote home in the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islanders have always survived on a diet of whales and seabirds. But as mercury increasingly enters the food chain, the Faroese must reconsider their traditional way of life.
WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST
Subversive, era-defining and visionary, Vivienne Westwood has been shaking up the fashion world for 40 years. With unprecedented access to the queen of fashion herself, Westwood is a candid portrait of an inimitable icon.
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.
ROBERT DOISNEAU: THROUGH THE LENS
Featuring previously unissued photographs, archival video and interviews with his friends and partners in crime, Clémentine Deroudille weaves an intimate portrait of the life, career and legacy of her grandfather, celebrated street photographer Robert Doisneau.
INTENT TO DESTROY + Panel Discussion
Academy Award nominated director Joe Berlinger chronicles the diplomatic pressure, Hollywood censorship and legacy of Turkish suppression that have conspired to bury the horror of the Armenian Genocide.
WINNIE, 15th Apr 2018
Winnie Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguingly powerful contemporary female political figures.