Projects in categories: Documentary

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A reflection on the nature of time and memory based on the true story of the director’s family escaping the build up to what became known as "The Slansky Trials": the first explicitly anti-Semitic show trial in Eastern Europe.

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An architect and filmmaker from Europe visit a town in the highlands of Liberia, once a thriving mining community, now decaying and desolate. These researchers discover through its buildings a story of the promise of prosperity and forgotten injustices. A film about architecture, and the spiritual cost of industrial mining. Official Selection Cinéma du réel 2018 - World premiere

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Immerse yourself in the super-heavy Sheffield doom scene, with concert footage and interviews with Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) and members of Conan, Crowbar and Primitive Man. Heavy metal is a lifestyle. Fans and musicians live for doom and channel their anger into crushing, yet positive live shows. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

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In this film about the resistance to progress at the expense of history, Maeve Brennan's wonderfully poignant documentary intertwines three stories of men in contemporary Lebanon. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

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An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades- spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before imagery, The Image You Missed is a documentary essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ with the story of a son's search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Doc Premieres - World premiere

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Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, provocateur and one of the most influential originators in recent history. This is the first film to encompass the remarkable story of her life, her fashion, her activism and her cultural importance, as she fights to maintain her brand‘s integrity, her principles – and her legacy. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere

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Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage compiled over the last 22 years, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan musician's remarkable journey from immigrant teenager in London to international popstar M.I.A., an artist who continues to shatter conventions. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere

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“How can you be criminalised for being born the way you are?” asks George Montague, a 96 year old WWII veteran, beginning this documentary. His words echo through the film. “ARE YOU PROUD?” meets key campaigners and investigates the organisations and events that have contributed to substantial progress within the western LGBTQ+ liberation movement, focussing on the history of Pride in the UK. It celebrates that progress, whilst exploring the controversial questions over the continuing relevance of the Pride march, and highlights the international battles still to be fought. Combining archive footage, interviews, vox pops and reportage, the film guides us through the history of the Gay Pride movement in the UK. We meet founders of the Gay Liberation Front, founding members of Stonewall (The UK’s leading LGBTQ+ lobbying organisation), the organisers of various Pride marches across the UK, groups such as Black Pride, Trans Pride Brighton and Queer Picnic. The film celebrates the progress that has been made, we are also reminded of “the fact that there are an increasing number of people out there who feel emboldened in hating queers.”

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British teenagers talk about all the "Big" words for approx one minute whilst being filmed against a blue screen, behind them either complementary or entertaining images are juxtaposed along with individual music tracks.

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Everyone deserves their fifteen minutes of fame, but what would you say? Young British people talk about all the "Big" words for around a minute whilst filmed against a blue/screen, behind them either complementary or entertaining images are juxtaposed, each segment also includes an individual original piece of music.

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Poet Theophina Gabriel dispels the myth that black skin does not age - it's more complicated than that