Projects in categories: Documentary

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From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.
Refracting his life through a kaleidoscope of previously unheard voices and perspectives, the film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Create

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How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past as she explores subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and the stories we tell ourselves.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Journey - World premiere

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Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female African American artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It's the ultimate story of survival - and an inspirational story for our times.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2021 - Berlinale Special

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TRAPPED BY PLASTIC is a short documentary film about how award-winning photographer Mandy Barker highlights the impact of marine plastic pollution. Featuring Mandy’s photographs and behind-the-scenes insights, the film shows how she developed a distinctive ‘call to action’ using strikingly colourful, intricate images to confront viewers with unpalatable truths.

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Abdullah is exiled in London. His family are trapped in Syria. This is their existence.

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In the mid-'80s, Swedish mining company Boliden exported hazardous waste to the town of Arica in northern Chile, turning a blind eye towards its mismanagement. This has devastating consequences for the health of the local community, heavily affecting young children as well as adults. Arica by Lars Edman and William Johansson Kalén plunges us into the lawsuit against the mining giant, as the underprivileged demand justice and petition the company to take responsibility for the case.

Official Selection IDFA 2020 - Frontlight - World premiere

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With the help of their family, friends, and faith, three fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community in North Philadelphia.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - International premiere

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Retired Joy France attempts to break gender and age stereotypes by competing in the brutal, youthful, male-dominated world of battle rap. A story of one woman's daring attempt to embrace life.

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On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - North American Premiere

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When she was seven, Misha Defonseca escaped the Nazis, crossed Europe on foot, lived with wolves and endured unimaginable hardship in search of her deported parents. Her Holocaust memoir took the world by storm and a Hollywood studio came knocking. But a fallout with her publisher who turned detective, revealed Misha’s story as an audacious deception created to hide an even darker truth.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere

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Plants were used in 1970s suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours, or so rumour has it. What went on behind closed curtains? This hybrid documentary explores the truth in the botanical myth.
A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend.

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A daughter tries to mend her fractured relationship with her father but his attitudes create more complications than she had expected. An intriguing mix of stop-motion animation and interviews reveal a family’s mythology and complex family dynamics.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - World premiere
Encounters Film Festival 2021 - UK Student Award - winner