Projects in categories: Documentary

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Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of the German Concentration Camps. Using remarkable archive footage and testimony from both survivors and liberators, it tells of the efforts made to document the almost unbelievable scenes that the Allies encountered on liberation. The film explores how a team of top filmmakers, including Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock, came together to make a film to provide undeniable evidence of what the Allies found, but the film was stopped in its tracks by the British Government and only now 70 years on, has it been completed. Each new generation deserves access to this evidence.

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A field-recorded encounter with some of the more eccentric folk rituals of the Norfolk Broads - as seen through the eyes of one indigenous storyteller.

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A musical road movie following two best friends and Muslim converts – Sukina and Muneera of the Hip Hop duo ‘Poetic Pilgrimage’ – on their quest to spiritually reconcile Islam, music and female empowerment despite criticism from cultural and religious traditionalists who believe their work is haram.

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Inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela, OF THE UNKNOWN explores the living conditions of Hong Kong’s so-called ‘cage dogs’.

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A song cycle with texts written by World War I poets all of whom, apart from the English painter-poet David Bomberg, lost their lives during the war... This innovative song cycle combines chansons vieilles from European poets, archival visual excerpts, and fragments of World World I-era musical motifs, in which Michael Nyman evokes everything erased from our memory: the unknown soldiers - those who have never been found or have lost their lives.

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A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain. After Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. From unpredictable first-time neurological experiments, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered mind Lotje takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite.

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This film captures the most anticipated comeback show in comedy history. It follows the stars of Monty Python as they reform after 34 years to stage a marathon ten shows at The O2, London in July 2014. It is the Pythons as never seen before, and will never be seen again.

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After trying his luck as upholsterer to the king of Saudi Arabia, and having lost almost everything on importing Chinese tractors, the French dreamer Claude Nicolay risks everything for his latest idea: he wants to open an eco-friendly gold mine in Mali in collaboration with the locals. But as his patient wife remarks, there is just one problem: he has absolutely no experience with modern mining.

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The myth of the black mirror as a source of knowledge provides the platform for a deeply original film, which bridges scientific diligence with artistic freedom.

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The documentary feature 'Queens of Syria' tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War.

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Documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins follows in the footsteps of DH Lawrence in a road-trip through Sardinia. London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.