GUARDIAN DOCUMENTARIES PRESENTS, 17th July 2019
An evening of short documentaries commissioned by The Guardian, featuring some of our favourite films from recent months plus a sneak preview of a new film.
BELLINGCAT - TRUTH IN A POST TRUTH WORLD
With the rise of social media and the wealth of information it creates at our disposal, a group of citizen sleuths are cracking fake news and government lies wide open.
PENNY SLINGER: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Discover the untold story of one of Britain's most provocative artists, and the traumatic events that shaped her work in Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows.
CITY, ESSAY, FILM: THE CONCRETE REVOLUTION
Part of the UCL Urban Laboratory series City, Essay, Film.
LOS REYES
Los Reyes ("The Kings") is the oldest skatepark in the Chilean capital of Santiago. This story is about the real kings here: Football and Chola, two stray dogs that have made their home in this open space full of hurtling skateboards and rowdy teenagers.
UP THE MOUNTAIN
Shen Jianhua is an artist and teacher who has left Shanghai for a remote mountain settlement in rural China. Unfolding like a painting, Up The Mountain is a masterful insight into the social fabric of this village, where the inhabitants are preserving a rich culture.
OPEN CITY: SWEETGRASS + DISCUSSION
Join writer Joanna Pocock for a screening of Sweetgrass, followed by a discussion of her new book, Surrender, a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana.
CITY, ESSAY, FILM: HANDSWORTH SONGS
Part of the UCL Urban Laboratory series City, Essay, Film.
BAGRI FOUNDATION LONDON INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL: REASON + Dir INTRO
Screening as part of Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival at DocHouse. Reason is a hard-hitting political documentary by India’s greatest documentarian that reveals shockingly deep fissures in rapidly changing Indian society.
BAGRI FOUNDATION LONDON INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL: THIS SHAKING KEEPS ME STEADY + Dir Q&A
Screening as part of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival at DocHouse. This Shaking Keeps Me Steady is a visually striking film exploring how people remember and relive trauma.
HALSTON
The rise and fall of one of America’s most iconic fashion designers who dominated the scene in the 1970s. A self-made prodigy, Halston was a rebel and shocked the New York fashion scene with his revolutionary approach.
FORCE OF NATURE NATALIA + Dir Q&A
An in-depth portrait of dance superstar Natalia Osipova, including remarkable footage of her classical and experimental work, directed by BAFTA winning filmmaker Gerry Fox.
LIAM GALLAGHER: AS IT WAS
The honest and emotional story of one of the most electrifying rock’n’roll frontmen of all time being lost in the musical wilderness of booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles.
CITY, ESSAY, FILM: NEWS FROM HOME
Part of the UCL Urban Laboratory series City, Essay, Film.
FREEDOM FIELDS
An all-female football team in post-revolution Libya fight against oppressive, violent attitudes towards women with the hope of competing in an international football tournament.
CITY, ESSAY, FILM: OPENING + PANEL
City, Essay, Film is a series of events hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory to examine the concept and practice of the ‘urban essay film’. This opening screening showcases a number of exemplary urban shorts from across the globe.
JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION
“Cinema lies, sport doesn’t” claimed Jean-Luc Godard. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection is an unusual exploration of the relationship between film and tennis, in which we observe McEnroe lash out at the refs and more frequently, confronting the cameras watching him.
Gil de Kermadec was a filmmaker who began making instructional tennis videos in the 1960s, and was obsessed with slow motion; he believed that slow motion may be the key to unlocking the secrets of the sport.
XY CHELSEA
Private Manning was sentenced to life imprisonment after uploading thousands of documents to WikiLeaks exposing American brutality in Iraq. After an unexpected clemency, Chelsea Manning adjusts to her newfound freedom.
The photography of Harold Feinstein spans six decades and celebrates the diversity his native city, New York. His striking images serve as a love letter to the Big Apple and its people.
EACH AND EVERY MOMENT
In this tender insight into the bumpy road of nurse-training, Director of the brilliant Etre et Avoir Nicholas Philibert explores how young students learn to cope with people in their most vulnerable moments Each and Every Moment (De chaque instant).
THE ARCTIC CAMELS
9-year-old Torarin is over the moon when his parents get a couple of camels to join them in Hammerfest, the North most city in the world. But things get complicated when they try to incorporate Mongolian training methods into their way of life.