In the run up to the 2018 Russian Presidential election, filmmaker Alexandra Dalsbaek follows a group of young activists on the campaign trail for opposition candidate Alexei Navalny.
Short Filmmaker Focus: Summer Series
Explore the world of shortform documentary with Bertha DocHouse online this Summer. We're taking a deep-dive into the work of three exceptional British short filmmakers with three global online events.
Filmed several years before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zero Position is an experiential journey through the war already happening in eastern Ukraine, on the cultural borderland between East and West.
The definitive portrait of one of the most explosive and compelling sports icons of all time.
He was born illegally—a second child in one-child-policy China. After years of guilt and alienation, director Louis Hothothot tries to find his place in a family that seems to have moved on without him.
Kim Cannon Arm is a true legend of arcade games. Not content to just continue playing in his shed, taciturn Kim is planning to make his mark by setting a new world record, playing his favourite game nonstop for 100 hours - that is four days in a row.
This inspiring, generational documentary explores the birth and rise of techno music through the eyes of one of its pioneers: acclaimed French DJ Laurent Garnier.
Nearly 50 years after the death of his twin brother at the age of 29, Italian film director Marco Bellocchio gathers his family to reconstruct Camillo’s disappearance.
The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this exuberant tribute by Wim Wenders.
The story of Princess Diana is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive footage creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death
A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.
For the last 40 years acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado has travelled the world, tracing the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. His moving work and inspirational life are revealed to us in this new documentary.
Shooting From The Heart: Haskell Wexler Through The Lens of Joan Churchill
Renowned filmmaker Joan Churchill presents the first two parts of her work-in-progress series on legendary fellow cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler.
In one of the most beloved documentaries of the 1990s, Wim Wenders captures a forgoten generation of Cuba's brightest musical talents as they collaborate with Ry Cooder to form the Buena Vista Social Club.
A TV news cameraman finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Bani Singh’s phenomenal in-depth look into her father's past as a gold medalist hockey player starts off as a lovely look down memory lane that soon develops into an investigative documentary into the lost friendships and fallout of the Partition of India.
An insightful and rare documentary about the views, hopes and struggles of ordinary women travelling on the rush-hour ‘Ladies Only’ carriages to and from the hyper frenetic megalopolis of Mumbai.
A decade after his critically acclaimed Le Quattro Volte, Michaelangelo Frammartino returns with this equally unclassifiable cinematic delight.
A Song for Cesar presents a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement.
One man’s tireless struggle to free his seven grandchildren from a prison camp in Syria in an unforgettable film about an inflamed political dilemma.
Revealing a rarely discussed but strongly enforced law in South Korea, Shadow Flowers follows a North Korean woman who finds herself trapped in South Korea, unable to return to her family in the North.