Projects in categories: Documentary

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Following an almost fatal injury, rugby player Ed Jackson’s recovery is charted through a new-found love for mountaineering. This courageous documentary is starkly honest and unsentimental in its examination of a life forever changed. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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A man's solitary life in a Scottish highland forest is portrayed through the changing seasons, with occasional encounters disrupting his otherwise isolated existence. The director revisits forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams, the subject of his earlier film TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011). Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - North American premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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In a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London, we witness eight actors - four Macbeths and four Lady Macbeths - work in pairs to investigate Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. Sophie Fiennes' richly detailed and immersive film offers privileged access to the vital experience of making theatre with pioneering practitioners Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of the ground breaking international theatre company Cheek By Jowl. Cheek by Jowl is the international theatre company of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. Its landmark productions, performed in more than 50 countries in the 44 years since the company was founded, have influenced the creation of theatre and the experience of audiences the world over. Actors including Adrian Lester, Tom Hiddleston, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, David Morrissey, Gwendoline Christie and Matthew MacFadyen all developed their talent working with Cheek by Jowl in their early careers. "The setting of Twyford Abbey is dramatic, but Shakespeare’s text is also haunted by the ghosts of actors and audiences who have passed through it, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future." Sophie Fiennes Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024 - International premiere

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Three Black queer femmes in their mid-thirties take a road trip across the American Midwest in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2025 - International premiere Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2025

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A nature reserve on the English Channel is a place of wonder and solace, shaped and haunted by violence. HEADLAND is an intimate look at life on a pebble beach reclaimed from the ocean, interweaving the tradition of sea rescues with recent Channel crossings, as witnessed by the last of the Dungeness fishermen.

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Every year, in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy, an arboreal wedding is held to celebrate spring renewal. Here human and nature perform an ambiguous dance in order to reach heaven

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On June 8th, 1971, sheep farmer Joss Naylor and rally driver Frank Davies arrived in Fort William to take on the iconic Three Peaks. A time, that if achieved, will probably never be beaten…

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Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that’s now in his dad’s shed. Gavin seeks his dad’s understanding but he’s uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.

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In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Huiju moved to the UK to escape her past in Korea, but her nightmares followed. Determined to overcome her fears, she used dating apps to confront her sexual trauma and push the boundaries she had set for herself.

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Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. Alice In Wonderland syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control. The film explores the idea of utilising AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past.