Projects in categories: Documentary

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Beginning his solitary shift as most of us are going home, a young Chinese takeaway driver delivers food to faceless customers, alone in the car with only his thoughts and dreams for company.

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Returning to his Hackney roots, Kapadia explores the connection between London, the Olympic Games and the experiences it engenders.

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An intimate portrait of Yemen as the revolution unfolds, told through the eyes of a tour guide leader.

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Doc-maker Marc Isaacs has used a portrait of a road - the A5 – to take a warm, human look at immigration to the UK.

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A poetic journey through the waterways and along the coastline of the British Isles, following a lone swimmer through lakes, rivers and coves, framed by a soundtrack of seminal British music from Delius to The La's.

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Town of Runners is a feature documentary made by award winning director Jerry Rothwell about young people from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, home to the current Olympic and World champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele. The film follows three children keen to follow in their heroes’ footsteps, as they move from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood. Set against the background of the seasonal rhythms of this farming region, and the impact of increased urbanization, climate change and globalization on agriculture, the film shows rural young Africans striving to make their own future.

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Nicky Hamlyn's celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in white in the United Kingdom, the other capturing a stunning Italian blush sunset (TIFF 2012).

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Nicky Hamlyn's celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in white in the United Kingdom, the other capturing a stunning Italian blush sunset (TIFF 2012).

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In one legendary week on Ben Nevis in 1960 Jimmy Marshall and Robin Smith climbed six first winter ascents on consecutive days, including the mini Alpine-route, Orion Face Direct. Exactly 50 years later Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner pay tribute to Smith and Marshall by setting out to repeat all the routes that were climbed in that famous week. This film tells the story of the original events and follows MacLeod and Turner as they discover exactly what an achievement it was.

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The life and times of the rock band Queen - told in two parts covering in part one the 1970's and in part two the 1980's and beyond.

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This documentary explores the uniqueness of childhood and the human mind. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds, and test out the boundaries of reality.

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A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey to the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or ‘husbandry’.