OCDF 2019: TASTE OF HOPE + Q&A
Screening as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2019.
WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL
The small village of Toritama has transformed into the ‘Capital of Jeans’. Residents work day and night, dreaming of their futures, and sell everything to attend the carnival.
SEAHORSE
30 year-old Freddy wants to start his own family, and as a gay transgender man he faces unique challenges. This collaborative and lyrical story is about what makes us who we are.
HAIL SATAN?
A group of Satanists from Salem are rocking religious and political institutions with their demands for equal rights, and also leading the way with compassion, empathy and community care.
WHY WE FIGHT
Part of Say What Happened - Nick Fraser selects, a series of films curated by former Storyville editor and BAFTA award winner to coincide with the launch of his new book.
AMAZING GRACE
The lost treasure of Sydney Pollack’s observational footage from 1972 has finally surfaced; witness the sonic brilliance of Aretha Franklin as she recorded her bestselling album Amazing Grace in an L.A. Baptist Church.
BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS + Dir Q&A
Part of Say What Happened - Nick Fraser selects, a series of films curated by former Storyville editor and BAFTA award winner to coincide with the launch of his new book.
WALKING ON WATER
Ten years after the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, installation artist Christo sets out to realise The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before.
STONES HAVE LAWS
The Maroon community in Suriname share their experiences of battling Dutch colonialists; and a way of life in which non-human persons such as stones and rivers co-govern.
EXTINCTION REBELLION PRESENT: HOW TO START A REVOLUTION + Dir Q&A
This BAFTA Award-winning film tells the remarkable story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution.
IN SEARCH...
Embarking on a series of frank discussions with other women who have experienced FGM/C, filmmaker Magoko considers whether she should take a journey into the unknown and have reconstructive surgery.
RE: DOX - AMERICAN MOVIE
This month's RE:DOX winner! Smash hit docs chosen by audience vote.
PARENT & BABY SCREENING: APOLLO 11
Enjoy the best new documentaries with your littles ones at our dedicated parent and baby screenings.
DREAMS OF A LIFE + Q&A
Part of Say What Happened - Nick Fraser selects, a series of films curated by former Storyville editor and BAFTA award winner to coincide with the launch of his new book.
VARDA BY AGNÈS
Spanning across a 60 year career, the ever creative, playful and curious queen of French New Wave reflects on her body of work in Varda by Agnès.
PAVAROTTI
Featuring rare interviews with his family and colleagues, never-before-seen footage, Pavarotti is an in-depth, no holds barred look at the life, career and lasting legacy of the musical icon by Academy Award winner Ron Howard.
HAMADA
Abandoned in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert ever since Morocco drove them out of the Western Sahara forty years ago, the Sahrawis are a forgotten people.
THE ARBOR + Dir Q&A
Part of the series Say What Happened - Nick Fraser selects, a series of films curated by former Storyville editor and BAFTA award winner to coincide with the launch of his new book.
RECONSTRUCTING UTØYA
On 22nd July, 2011, 69 people, mostly teenagers, were murdered by a far-right terrorist. Four survivors meet in Northern Norway with twelve young Norwegians to share their experiences and reconstruct their memories.
ON THE INSIDE OF A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
After releasing Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of 2010, the Myanmar military installed a so-called civilian democracy, transforming its appearance in the eyes of the international community.
EARTH
Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans – with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people, in mines, quarries and construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.