Projects in categories: Documentary

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Following five queer Nigerians living in the UK as they document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants share stories that explore how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself are obfuscated within the intersection of Blackness, African-ness, and Queerness. Official Selection Encounters International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Winner Short Film Competition

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A heavenly inquiry lands in a village to inspect the sleep of a peasant and his renegade goose. Led by the hums of a spectral apparatus, the visitation detects esoteric frequencies from a spiritual reality cloaked in the peasant's home and land. Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition

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A boy takes his 2 year-old sister on a tour of the solar system. Official Selection Hamburg International KurzFilmfFestival 2023 - World premiere

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At the dawn of the American West, two men - one a little-known Creole, the other a closeted historical icon - entered into a volatile relationship that spanned a continent. DOK Leipzig 2023 (International Competition, Short Documentary) Flatpack Film Festival 2024 Lunenburg Doc Fest 2024 Bolton International Film Festival 2024

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If British police ask for the password to your phone or computer, you must hand it over to them in accordance with an anti-terror law that came into force before 9/11. When human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani refuses and is prosecuted, a journalist is able to uncover documents proving the existence of a top-secret surveillance programme, codenamed Phantom Parrot, designed to copy the personal data of individuals at airports and border crossings – and people from minority backgrounds are often the first to be pulled aside. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2023 - World premiere Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023

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Colourblind artist Neil Harbisson is the world’s first formally recognised cyborg. He has an antenna implanted in his head that allows him to hear colour. Now Neil is on a mission to convince the world to follow him and adopt his credo: Design Yourself. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2023 - World premiere Official Selection Warsaw International Film Festival 2023

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Stephen Fry’s personal journey and essay tells the amazing story of how a group of Amsterdam’s artists, musicians and members of the LGBTQ+ community, pulled off one of the most daring and far-reaching acts of sabotage in the history of the Dutch resistance. Willem, a gay artist, and Frieda, a Lesbian cellist, forged identity papers for Jews without a “J” on them but when the Nazis began to check the false paperwork against real files they came up with a daring plan to blow up the Central Records Office but without harming anyone. Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A mother’s dream and a daughter’s beckoning - a love letter flowing through time, tenderly untangling knots in a family's unspoken past. Searching for answers that her mother and grandmother often brush aside, Chloe traces the reaches and limits of familial love.  Official Selection True/False Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Documentary Competition Winner BFI London Film Festival 2023 Audience Award for Best Documentary

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James Glancy, a filmmaker and former British Royal Marine commando who was decorated for his actions in combat, returns to Afghanistan with a small, handpicked team to help him answer the question that has haunted him for ten years. Was it worth it? Dramatically, mid-way through filming, President Joe Biden announces that the US will be pulling troops out by 9/11, starting a Taliban offensive that leads to the dramatic fall of the Afghanistan Government, amidst chaotic evacuation scenes in Kabul, as American forces withdraw. Official selection Docs Ireland 2023 - World premiere

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A college student's search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - World premiere - Documentary Feature Competition - Special Jury Recognition for Innovation in Storytelling

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CABBAGE reframes language, illuminating relationships of care at its centre. Bureaucratic violence is contrasted with lived experience: the filmmaker centralises her brother’s writing (who is non-verbal and non-mobile) using eye tracking technology, and her mothers reflections, to explore layers of power, and to reclaim it within an ableist paradigm. Official Selection Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023

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An operation 10 years ago left Allister with damaged vocal cords and an obstacle to communication. His unusual solution reminds us that community thrives in surprising places. Official Selection True/False Film Fest 2023 Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2023 Official Selection IDFA 2023