Projects in categories: Documentary

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Fairbourne’s residents were told that by 2054 their village will be decommissioned and left to the sea. As scientists test coastal defences in a lab, villagers on the frontline of the climate crisis confront an uncertain future. This is a story about the people labeled the UK’s first climate refugees.
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Cinema history is scoured for hidden depths in this improvised experiment in perception, presented in stereoscopic 3D.

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The banana is the world's most eaten fruit but it is at risk of extinction. Composer and sound-artist-turned-director Matthew Herbert attaches a microphone to a banana in the Dominican Republic and records what it hears on the way to the UK.

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Exploring the extraordinary story of how a demo recorded by John Lennon in 1976 became the last recording that John, Paul and George and Ringo will get to make together, and celebrates the legacy of the most influential band in popular music history.

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In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.
Official selection - Sheffield Global Cinema Festival 2023

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Helen discovers that images of her have been digitally manipulated, deep-faked, into sexually explicit and violent scenarios on a porn site, and goes on a journey to understand what has happened to her.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023
Official Selection Krakow Film Festival 2023

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Built as an investigation exploring John Galliano’s work, the multiple facets of his character and the ultimate steps that led him to pronouncing antisemitic insults. Through interviews with his closest friends and family, some of the most influential celebrities of the fashion and pop world, and Galliano himself, the documentary seeks to build a portrait of the man behind the fashion genius, and his journey for redemption.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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TELL THEM YOU LOVE ME explores the extraordinary story of Anna Stubblefield, an esteemed university professor who becomes embroiled in a controversial affair with Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal man with cerebral palsy. Anna says she unlocked Derrick's mind from his body by teaching him to communicate using a keyboard. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial that would challenge our perceptions of disability and the nature of consent. Through exclusive footage and interviews with those on both sides of the case, this feature documentary weaves a riveting and endlessly nuanced story about communication, race, and sex.

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A laird in Scotland, who presides over a palace and 4500-acre estate, is attempting to redress the imbalance of land ownership in Britain by handing it over to the community. This film follows his journey as he grapples with his own egalitarian ideals and the inevitable friction that comes with huge upheaval.
Official selection Bolton International Film Festival 2023 - UK premiere

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Documentary following a young couple who bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The pair battle entrenched tradition as they rip down fences and set the land back to its natural state, entrusting its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding projects in Europe.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn't see. He met a mysterious film collector who saved thousands of films from destruction by the new regime. Despite arrest and torture, the collector refused to give up his secret hoard. Together they forged a friendship based on passion for cinema and resistance against tyranny. The boy escaped to exile in London to become a filmmaker, and tells their shared story of obsession and celluloid dreams.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Documentary Competition - World premiere

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In TRUST ME, a short documentary blending animation and live-action recreations, a young woman uses humour and compassion to reclaim the story of her bipolar diagnosis and a traumatic betrayal by family and friends, using film to pave her journey towards self acceptance and challenge everyday stigma.