Activists, marine biologists and the navy fight to save the world’s smallest whale from extinction as its habitat has been destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese Mafia who harvest the swim bladder of the Totoaba fish, the ‘cocaine of the sea’.

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.

A letter from young mother Waad al-Kateab to her baby daughter Sama, to whom she gave birth on the front line of cataclysmic conflict in Aleppo.

On the remote volcanic island of Hawaii, 10-year-old Manu and her mother collect wild, endangered bees in order to breed disease-resistant colonies, while her father protests developments on sacred mountain Mauna Kea.

Filmed 50 summers ago, The Moon and the Sledgehammer is a poetic and eccentric classic of British nonfiction filmmaking, that we’re excited to be screening on the Autumn Equinox.

A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen chronicled by documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield.

It’s near impossible to build a career as a female film journalist, but Pauline Kael defied the odds. Never a dull read, the long-time New Yorker film critic and best-selling author was a force to be reckoned with.

After his forensic analysis of Hitchcock’s Psycho, director Alexandre O. Philippe returns to dig into the mythological roots of Alien, its artistic origins, and place in our history and collective unconscious.

Screening at part of Open City Documentary Festival 2019.

Screening as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2019.