A DEAL WITH THE UNIVERSE + Q&A
As a transsexual man keen to have a baby with his partner Tracey, Jason Barker decides the journey to parenthood is worth filming. He just has no idea how long it’s going to take - and what a crazy trip it will be.
BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY
Chris Sievey became a legend as Frank Sidebottom, a bizarre enthusiastic figure with an over-sized papier-mâché head. Beneath the head was a brilliant musician and comedy genius, remembered here by figures including former band member Mark Radcliffe and punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTES
In its eighty year history, the iconic American record label Blue Note has repeatedly pushed creative boundaries. Founded in 1939 by Jewish German refugees, who simply loved the new type of music called jazz, the label became a game changing platform for African Americans.
CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND
In the High Himalayas of Nepal, children are sent from their remote villages to a Buddhist monk-led school in Kathmandu. After a decade of being away, a group of 16 year-olds are making their journey home, with the danger of earthquakes looming.
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.
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.
LAST BREATH + Dir Q&A
Imagine being lost at the bottom of the North Sea with no light or insulation and 5 minutes left of oxygen – and no sign of rescue in sight. Last Breath’s race-against-time story about deep-sea diver Chris Lemons will leave you gasping for air.
MINDING THE GAP
Bing Liu started filming himself and his skater friends when they were teens; hanging out at skate parks, learning new tricks and mucking about. When one his friends becomes a young father, he begins to reflect on the father figures in their lives.
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.
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: SMALL TALK
Screening as part of the Taiwan Film Festival 2019.
TAIWAN FF 2019: THE WALKER
Screening as part of the Taiwan Film Festival 2019.
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.
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 PANAMA PAPERS
A political thriller revealing the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism that broke the story of the offshore tax haven in Panama, revealing the widespread tax evasion committed by global leaders and celebrities.
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.
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.