Projects in categories: Documentary

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The stars have always captured our imagination, and the latest advances in space travel and telescopy are creating images that are both stunning in detail and have profound learnings hidden within. This unique immersive experience takes participants from looking up at the night sky to the depths of outer space, through images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The immersive XR experience journeys through breathtaking, high-resolution imagery like never before, hearing insights from the scientists working with NASA and ESA on what the images reveal, and how they are shaping our understanding of the cosmos. An immersive journey through the cosmos on Apple Vision Pro. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Just nine months after a horrific accident Ethan Walker decides to cycle from Scotland to Germany for Scotland's opening match against Germany in Euro 2024 (UEFA European Football Championship). Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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In 1995, a Louisiana college student discovers a disturbing truth about herself through a textbook, leading to revelations about a psychological experiment on twins. Her personal medical records expose lifelong lies from loved ones. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025 Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2025

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In August 1990 Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, triggering a war that would reshape the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. This documentary charts the extraordinary story of the passengers and crew on BA flight 149 who landed in the warzone on the morning of the invasion, becoming Saddam’s hostages in a rapidly escalating international crisis. For decades the British government denied they knew the invasion had begun before the plane landed. Then in 2023, an MI6 officer broke his silence contradicting this official account. The hostages are now launching a legal case against the British Government and British Airways in their search for the truth about why the plane landed in the first place. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere

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In track and field he’s remembered as The Greatest. Athletics' first commercially global star. Away from the spotlight, his is a life often misunderstood. Carl Lewis did it his own way - unwilling to conform to what the US expected from its athletes. Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals across four Games and was voted 'Sportsman of the Century' by the International Olympic Committee. Yet he refused to be pigeonholed and, in doing so, he inspired change on and off the field. I’m Carl Lewis! delves into the consequences of his uncompromising drive. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Constantinopoliad is an expanded documentary and installation that centers around the collective reading of a hand-made book. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

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An immersive 360° film poem from the heart of a Cornish temperate rainforest. The voice of the Mother Tree introduces us to the sounds, sights and more-than-human characters of the ancient woodland, encouraging us to think of time as trees do, in hundreds or even thousands of years.

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Damon Hill’s father was his hero. Graham Hill was a two-time world champion and racing icon full of natural charisma, humour and vibrancy; he was a towering figure. For Damon, growing up on the circuit at a time when F1 was immensely dangerous for the drivers, death cast a constant threat. And when Graham was killed in a plane crash leaving the family with nothing, 15-year-old Damon was forced to find his path without his father’s support and guidance, a path that would ultimately lead him back into Formula 1. This is the story of a son’s life-long search to understand his father, set against the backdrop of two fascinating, contrasting eras of the sport: the 1960-70s, a time of glamour and demi-gods, and the 1980-90s, a time of rivalry among men. This film tells how Damon wrestled with his father’s legacy and how, through sheer determination, he forged himself into a champion and became the father he never had.

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Exploring how war becomes spectacle in the age of endless scrolling. Following a group of young Ukrainians as they watch their country’s destruction unfold online, the film blends vérité intimacy with experimental absurdity to reveal how social media is reshaping our relationship to trauma, detachment, and the limits of empathy.

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As thousands of people travel to see the total solar eclipse in Texas, one woman drives from Dallas to New Mexico, in search of a legal abortion. Concurrently, people in a town off the Interstate she is driving along decide whether to crack down on 'abortion traffickers' like her. Official Selection Odense Film Festival 2025

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A 50-year-old Australian mother, frustrated with the restrictive French education system, secretly embarks on a road trip with her 8-year-old son to create a more open-minded and experiential childhood - only to be stopped by authorities who question whether she is truly his mother.

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In 2024, 82 people are known to have died crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK - the deadliest year on record. This film offers an evocative contemplation on the politics and spatiality of bordering, archiving the sites, textures, and tactile architecture of the border in the port town of Dover, confronting how borders inhabit and shape our relationship to place.