Projects in categories: Documentary

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Oscar-winning writer/director Alex Gibney’s revelatory CITIZEN K is an intimate yet sweeping look at post-Soviet Russia from the perspective of the enigmatic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch turned political dissident. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Out of Competition - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Contemporary World Cinema

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A portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Australian footballer Adam Goodes - a hero on and off the field, as both a decorated sportsman and an indigenous-rights activist. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - TIFF Docs - International premiere

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A depiction of the everyday lives of the residents of Gascoigne Estate in Barking, East London, up to the demolition of the building.

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With an elephant's ivory tusk as the protagonist, artist-filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland's film meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Wavelengths

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In the town of Krabi, a popular tourist destination in southern Thailand, the pre-historic, the recent past and the contemporary capitalist world awkwardly collide. The town’s local folklore and histories are promoted as attractions to foreigners, while the town’s traditional labour force is muted and hidden from the tourists’ eyes. A nameless character, whose identity continually changes, takes us around town to explore various sites that capture Krabi in its current state. These sites uniquely illustrate how Krabi’s folklore is propagated and commodified to fill the need of tourism industry. A docu-fiction work from Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong developed from ideas explored in their 2018 Thailand Biennale installation piece 'The Ambassadors'. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Wavelengths Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentation

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A film to mark the centenary of a West London beekeepers' association.

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After suffering a spinal stroke in 2015 and told she would never walk again, Riona Kelly talks about her struggle to defy the doctors with the help of her new partner, ex-rugby league player Keith Mason.

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The documentary follows choreographer and drag queen Jay Jackson/ Laganja Estranja ('RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 6) around London. Jay teaches a dance class and shares stories about his life. The film ends with a live performance at the West 5.

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‘Dark tourism' has been defined as travel to places historically associated with death or tragedy. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, this industry is booming. Over 3600 people died during The Troubles (1968-1998), the colloquial name given to the 30 year period of violence and political dispute between Unionists who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom and Nationalists who wanted to join the Republic of Ireland. A new phenomena of tourists now travel to the working class streets of the city where the majority of the conflict took place with long-term residents beginning to feel like they’re part of the attraction. Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020

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This is a ghost story. A series of uncanny events lead The Seeker to a forest in Poland where she meets a distraught elderly woman who hands her a note written in Polish that she cannot understand. Returning months later with an interpreter she hears the story of The Deathless Woman, a Roma matriarch who was buried alive in the forest by German soldiers in 1942. The Deathless Woman draws us from the scene of her death to other sites of Roma persecution. She hovers above the Gypsy Camp at Birkenau on the night the Roma revolt against their Nazi captors. She glides under the lake in Várpalota where 118 women and children were massacred in 1945. She passes through the burnt-out house in Tatárszentgyörgy where neo-Nazis murdered a Roma family in 2009. She even crosses into the virtual realm and enters the digital landscapes of the Internet, encountering hate speech and video games where players are invited to gun down unarmed Roma as they run through the streets. The film interweaves The Deathless Woman’s ghostly narration, The Seeker’s journey of discovery, fantastical re-imaginings of buried secrets; and documentary testimony from witnesses to atrocities against the Roma in Poland and Hungary. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A short film about an art collector Berkovic, and dealer Oscar Swindon - featuring an unexpected twist which will keep the audience hooked.

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A film of three interconnected narratives – a story of the artist's grandfather, one of ‘the land’, and another detailing an encounter with Nigeria – which the film attempts to tell in as many ways as possible. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition - International premiere