Dir. Priya Sen - 70min - 2019 - India
Filmed in Ambedkar Nagar, a dense, largely working class area in South Delhi, Yeh Freedom Life tries to keep up with its protagonists, as they manoeuvre erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour; the other runs the family’s ...
Dir. Nick Jordan - 27mins - 2019 - UK
Filmed in Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’ in Tripoli, designed by the Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. The film presents themes of progress and crisis, labo...
Dir. Paul Heintz - 23min - 2020 - France
Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.
Dir. Juan Camilo Olmos Feris - 30min - 2019 - Colombia
Burning Land portrays a popular bullfighting festivity in Northern Colombia which reveals a tradition rooted within an established order in permanent confrontation, as well as the contradictions of a society which seems to celebrate with fol...
Dir. Neary Adeline Hay - 71min - 2018 - Cambodia, France
Khonsaly confronts his former Khmer Rouge persecutors in the obscure intimacy of the village where they once lived together for 4 years. Oscillating between past and present, forgotten spectres re-emerge and Khonsaly's story is finally told.
Jeanie Finlay is one of Britain’s most distinctive documentary makers, who never fails to find the sparkle in the intimate everyday stories of the people she films. True Story is excited to present All That Gimmers, a collection of Jeanie’s films including Goth Cruise in which 150 ‘people in blac...
Dir. Madalena Fragoso, Margarida Meneses - 61min - 2019 - Portugal
For five years, seven friends film their lives together and apart from each other. As time goes by, a film begins to emerge when this archive is revisited; the house they shared in the first year no longer exists. A film shot thr...
