Projects in categories: Documentary

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The Demailly family have lived in the same area of Eastern Paris for over a century. Filmmaker Peter Bromley captures the lives of this working class family at a time of political, social and cultural changes in French society. His film asks what does it mean to be French today?

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The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.

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An animated documentary about a woman who turns into a castle based on Oliver Sacks Case study.

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Accused of horrific war crimes, the “Butcher of Bosnia” finally faces a verdict in the biggest trial since Nuremberg. Embedded with both the prosecution and defense, this courtroom thriller reveals the troublingly nuanced Serbian–Bosnian conflict that still rages on. Official Selection IDFA 2018 - World premiere Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – Special Presentations

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One of the world’s biggest bands share their story, in their own words, for the first time. Charting Coldplay’s incredible journey from humble origins to stadium-filling superstardom, it is the definitive Coldplay film. Director Mat Whitecross showcases live performances and backstage footage from the momentous global stadium tour A Head Full of Dreams, alongside unprecedented and unseen archive material captured over 20 years. The film juxtaposes spectacular performances of iconic tracks like Fix You and Viva La Vida with intimate, behind-the-scenes moments that reveal the depth of the band’s friendship and brotherhood. A one-night-only global cinema event not to be missed.

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A remote island's culture is fading away due to an economic downturn, but islanders both near and far return every week to watch their beloved soccer team.

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Exploring the hidden world of space junk; provocative and disturbing, the film engages with the mysteries and contradictions of space junk: compelling, but destructive museum of space exploration, hurtling above our heads. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - European premiere

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Following India’s first women’s ice hockey team, from the beautiful Himalayan mountains of India to the busy metropolis of Kuala Lumpur, as they compete for international glory. 

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Nature and domesticity collide as falling in love forces the hidden animal instincts of humans to rise to the surface. This poetic narrative features fragments of documentary interviews recorded around the UK, woven into an evocative soundtrack.

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Max is gender non conforming trans person, who gives birth to River. Max has decided to raise River gender neutral, and the film explores what that means to them and how they go about it.

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Enter The Collider, a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. Its mission: to identify the corrosive, delightful and mysterious material that passes between people – that keeps us together and pulls us apart. Created for two people at time, the experience guides each person along a journey, directing the movements of both into a choreography that investigates their own relationship with power and control. Each participant enters separately but, soon, their journeys converge. One enters a virtual world revealing the inner vision of the machine, the other can manipulate the visions and actions of that virtual world. The experience culminates in an unmediated encounter where the pair work out, together, what has happened. The Collider builds the real choreography of going in and out of VR with another person in the room into a theatrical experience which creates its own spectacle – a dance between two limited humans failing and failing again to see the other’s experience and then, finally, the rush of connection when they do. From #metoo to Kavanaugh, Brexit to Brazil - The Collider moves from the political to the personal to ask: what do you do with power when you've got it? Official Selection IDFA 2018 - World premiere

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Filmed over a 22 year period, NO IFS OR BUTS delivers a portrait of Soho barbershop, Cuts, an iconic London hub for street fashion and pop innovators. Guided by freewheeling founders James Lebon and Steve Brooks, who met when one was a rockabilly and the other a New Romantic, the salon moved from early ’80s postpunk roots to become a hip-hop club and communal hub for DJs, photographers and style icons. But the film "is not just about the haircut", delivering an intimate portrait of Steve struggling with a traumatic past that threatens to derail the Cuts universe. The film traces profound and often tragic change in the hairdressers' lives within the wider context of the UK's political and cultural landscape- an anthem to the promise of youth and the friendships that endure over a lifetime. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere