The murders of his family in rural Colombia could have inspired a young Jesus Abad Colorado to pick up a gun; instead he bought a camera.
TAIWAN FF 2019: ONGOING - SHORTS + LIVE MUSIC
Taiwan Film Festival Closing Gala: A selection of short documentary films depicting the past, the present and the future of the Taiwanese Indigenous movement, followed by a Q&A and live music by Panai Kusui & Ado Kaliting Pacidal.
TAIWAN FF 2019: THE WALKER
Screening as part of the Taiwan Film Festival 2019.
TAIWAN FF 2019: SMALL TALK
Screening as part of the Taiwan Film Festival 2019.
SOYALISM
The global effect of the pork industry and soybean farming is investigated in this shocking film that reveals how big corporations and the industrialisation of the food industry is destroying our ecosystem.
THE FACES WE LOST + Q&A
One of the few films to engage with Rwandans as users of images, rather than simply their subjects, The Faces We Lost follows nine survivors of the 1994 genocide, relatives of victims and professional memory-makers), who guide us through their stories and share their experiences, remembrance and images.
THE PONDS
Plunging into ice cold water may sound like a nightmare to many, but to this hardy group of regulars at the Hampstead Heath ponds a winter swim is one of life’s necessities.
FREE SOLO
A stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares for his lifelong dream: to climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park... without a rope.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME
Having broken away from Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes to pursue his solo career, Teddy Pendergrass was on the cusp of super-stardom - but his position in music history was thrown into uncertainty by a devastating accident.
SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD
Scotty Bowers wrote a best-selling memoir about providing gay sex services to Hollywood stars from the gas station he worked at in the late 1940s. This film follows a man keen to share his sexcapades, regardless of the implications.
H IS FOR HARRY
A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year-old boy who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write.
WELCOME TO SODOM
Have you ever wondered where all those phones and laptops and miscellaneous electrical goods you discarded ended up? Welcome to ‘Sodom’, a blazing, toxic electrical dump in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, where thousands of men, women and children work through the waste that has been illegally shipped there.
PECKHAM SPRINGS Screening: MILFORD GRAVES FULL MANTIS
DocHouse presents at Peckham Springs! The first in a series of one-off screenings of DocHouse favourites at the South London venue.
MAIDEN
The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
WALL
With different animation styles, Wall brings to life a monologue originally performed onstage by playwright and screenwriter Sir David Hare. Speaking to friends in Israel and Palestine, Hare considers ramifications of the wall dividing Israel and Palestine.
MASTER AND TATYANA
He was a tireless photographer of the common man in his native Lithuania; she was his beautiful muse and life partner. From their pet lion cub to their legendary parties, they lived life on the edge, until a sudden tragedy ended everything.
OF LOVE & LAW
Gay couple Kazu and Fumi are a rare pair in ultra-homogenous Japan. Both lawyers, they fight for the rights of the marginalised and the risk-takers, in pursuit of a more tolerant society and happiness.
HOME GAMES
Alina has loved football since the she was a small child. Now a premier league player, she dreams of making the Ukrainian women’s football team. But she faces enormous challenges - including the fact that a chaotic home life has left her in charge of raising her young siblings.
BONES OF CONTENTION
The ghosts of Spain continue to haunt the present in this moving documentary, which lays bare the searing legacy of Francisco Franco's regime on the LGBT population - including persecuted poet Frederica Lorca.
RBG
Smashing the patriarchy from the inside out, 84 year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been breaking down gender discrimination for over 50 years and is an iconic figure for all generations.
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
Franco’s brutal 40-year dictatorship has been ‘forgotten’ in an enforced collective amnesia. As Spain refuses to bring former torturers to trial, the case is made international and brought to Argentine Judge María Servini de Cubría.