In Amanda Lipitz's Found, three adopted American teenage girls discover that they are blood-related cousins.
Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet. Part of 'Take Your Positions!', Bertha DocHouse's pre-COP26 climate focus.
Put yourself in the shoes of the people living on the frontline of the climate crisis, with this intimate evocation of a country and community under threat. Part of 'Take Your Positions!', Bertha DocHouse's pre-COP26 climate focus.
A profoundly inspirational story following one young Nepalese woman's transformational journey from silenced wife to documentary filmmaker.
A stunning deep dive into the life and work of the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
A fitting homage to one of the most influential bands on the American East Coast, which inspired the rock scene. Freakscene is an emotional, tragically funny and sometimes noisy roller-coaster ride by a dysfunctional family – Dinosaur Jr.
Activists and volunteers work through the darkest days of 2020, galvanizing social change amidst chaos as governments start to fail local communities. This epic, globally spanning and deeply passionate documentary serves as a clarion call that great change can be born of crisis.
Exploring the life and work of renegade neuroscientist Dr Phil Kennedy, Father of the Cyborgs examines the ethics of self-experimentation and the prospect of a future where technology and human brains seamlessly combine.
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California's women’s prisons, they wage a near impossible legal battle exposing modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.
Discover the life and legacy of Britain's best-selling weekly magazine during WWII. 'Picture Post' helped to transform society and revolutionise the portrayal of ordinary British life.
A powerful investigation into the unsolved murder of anti-Apartheid activist Dulcie September, travelling from the heart of Paris in March 1988 to the pursuit of justice in 2021.
On the eve of his eye surgery, visual culture savant Mark Cousins guides us through the riches of the visible world; a kaleidoscope of extraordinary imagery across cultures and eras.
An intimate portrait of the world-renowned infectious disease specialist Dr Anthony Fauci.
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. Part of Queer East 2021.
The film is a deeply personal meditation on the power of looking, in which Mark guides us through the riches of the visible world.
Misha Defonseca's holocaust survival memoir took the world by storm, until her publisher-turned-detective revealed an audacious deception hiding a much darker truth.
German avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s love letter to the city where she came of age, explores her artistic and political growth, fueled by bookstores, jazz clubs, workshops and cafés.
Part of Open City Documentary Festival 2021, this combined programme includes recent work by Maria Anastassiou, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Ute Aurand, Alexandra Cuesta.
Rock Bottom Riser is an essay film that explores connections between geology, astrology and settler colonialism on the island of Hawaii. Part of Open City Documentary Festival
We're delighted to be part of this year's Open City Documentary Festival again. See the full programme.
Dutch virtuoso Janine Jansen and Sir Antonio Pappano dazzle in this journey to record an album on 12 of the world’s greatest Stradivari violins.