Dir. Clive Patterson - 94min - 2021 - UK

Sorious Samura is Sierra Leone’s best-known investigative journalist, making documentaries for CNN, Channel 4 and BBC that have won two Emmy Awards and seen him described by The Independent as “the world’s most fearless filmmaker”. Over the last 25 years,...

Dir. Marcos Pimentel - 75 min - 2021 - Brazil

Documentary about the interaction between the Brazilian city's inhabitants and what is expressed in its walls. Graffiti, indecipherable symbols, slogans, political thoughts, hieroglyphs, declarations of love... Fragments of memory and silent screams ...

Dir. Lucy Parker - 75min - 2019 - UK

Solidarity is about activists who are spied upon, systematically denied work and tricked into intimate relationships with undercover police - a community coming together to find a route to justice.

Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thous...

Dir. Jeanie Finlay - 75min - 2011 - UK

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days. SOUND IT OUT (75 mins) is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England.

A cultural haven in one of the most de...

Dir. Marija Stojnić - 2019 - Serbia, Croatia, Qatar

Conjuring reality and wonder, 'Speak so I Can See You' takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe’s oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts orig...

Dir. Nebojsa Slijepcevic - 2018 - Croatia - Language: Croatian - Subtitles: English

In early 90’s, a 12-year old Serbian girl was brutally murdered in Zagreb. The perpetrators were soon found but never convicted. A quarter-century later, well known director Oliver Frljic is working on a theatre ...

Dir. Manuel Bauer - 95min - 2022 - Peru, Spain

'Steel Life' is a film journey about the Central Peruvian Railway during the week of Peru’s most important national holiday, Independence Day, July 28th. The train goes through steep gradients, carrying minerals from Cerro de Pasco, at 4380m altitud...

Dir. Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, Tolin Erwin Alexander - 2018 - Netherlands, Suriname - Languages: Saamaka, Okanisi, Dutch - Subtitles available in: Dutch, English, French

Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) is an immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former...

Dir. Luca Magi - 2018 - Italy - Language: Italian - Subtitles available in: English, French

Rostom is a night shelter for homeless people located on the outskirts of a big Italian city. In the dark of the night, the faces of the people who stay there for just one night and the faces of those who...

Dir. Alessandro Comodin - 78min - 2011 - Italy, Belgium, France - Language: Italian

It's summer in the countryside of northeastern Italy. Giacomo, nineteen, deaf since childhood and Stefania, his childhood friend, sixteen, go to the river for a picnic. Like in an enchanted fairy tale they get lo...

-- Dir. Pawet Lozinski - 100min - 2021 - Poland --

Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Director Paweł Łoziński is watching people from his balcony as they are passing by: sad, thoughtful, glued to their phones, young and old. Neighbours, random visitors or simp...

Dir. Daniel Draper - 2019 - UK

Every second Saturday in July the city of Durham is taken over by miners, trade-unions and the public for an event known locally as 'The Big Meeting’. The Durham Miners' Gala is an annual celebration of noise, colour and solidarity, of class culture, creativity and...

Dir. Pedro Spironi, 73min, 2023, Argentina

Iván Bilbao, 33 years old, walks down the corridor of a maximum-security prison to finally arrive at the prison gate. On the other side, a shattered family waits for him, after five years of absence. Back in his hometown, a confused Iván wanders between...

Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 2018 - Austria - Subtitles in English

A documentary about populism and its absurd consequences. Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee routes to Italy after the Ba...

Dir. Eva Pervolovici - 92min - 2020 - FranceRomania

1984: the year I was born. Ceaușescu ordered the demolition of an architectural monument of the 18th century, the imposing Văcăresti monastery in Bucharest, transformed into a political prison in the 20th century. He wanted to build an artifici...

Dir. Laurence Turcotte-Fraser - 85min - 2021 - Canada

The End of Wonderland is a feature documentary on Tara Emory, a veteran artist who works on her own terms in the sex industry. Facing a changing world and eviction from her packed studio, Wonderland, Tara must confront her family history of h...

Dir. Adrian Cioflâncã, Radu Jude - 175min - 2020 - Romania

On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten, shops and homes were looted, and most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans took part in ...

Dir. Liu Feifang - 172min - China - 2019

Unlike the other young people, Hou Junli has not left for the city but has remained with his family in their forlorn mountain village. Just as elsewhere in the country, members of the younger generation living in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi mu...

Dir. Rok Biček - 2017 - Slovenia, Austria - Language: Slovenian - Subtitles: English

Matej is born into a family of people with learning disabilities in a God-forsaken village in a God-forsaken land, but is himself so one of a kind – neither different nor normal – that he seems to have completel...

Dir. Andrés Torres - 2019 - Colombia

In the final days leading up to the Colombian national soccer finals, Jorge, a young hooligan from the slums of northeastern Colombia, travels 1,000 miles across the country with his friends to see his native Bucaramanga’s soccer team. Proving their commitmen...

Dir. Mostafa Razzaq Karimi - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English

"The Grand Lady of Iran (Khadije Saghafi) is part of a small cultural revolution going on in Iranian cinema, where formerly hushed-up topics are being (almost) openly discussed. This curious documentary, directed by ...

-- Dir. Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski - 85min - 2022 - Poland --

A few months prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, five young women and men participate in a unique stage production that attempts to relate their war experiences to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. For each of them, t...

Dir. Bruno Jorge - 144min - 2022 - Brazil

An epic, intimate documentary about one of the most important missions ever carried out in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Bruno Pereira leads the mission to establish first contact with an isolated group of Korubo indigenous people, and broker a r...

Dir. Viktor Portel - 74min - 2022 - Czech Republic, Croatia

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech criminal investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In the 1990’s he collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleans...