Projects matching: Steve McQueen

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Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, where she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Official Selection IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2024 - International premiere
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2025

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World War II London. George, a 9-year-old boy is sent by his mother Rita to the English countryside for his safety. George, defiant and determined to return home to Rita and his grandfather Gerald in East London, sets out on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024 - North American premiere

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The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary, informed by the book 'Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945)' written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Special Screenings - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in colour, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour. Different voices enhance the images. Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, provides his knowledge of the footage. Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film essay.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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A story of young love and music at a blues party in the early 1980s.
Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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The true story of the Mangrove 9, the group of Black activists who clashed with London police during a protest march in 1970 and their highly publicised trial that followed. The trial was the first judicial acknowledgment of behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the UK's Metropolitan Police.
Part of the BBC-commissioned drama anthology 'Small Axe'.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020 - Opening Night Gala

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Part of the BBC-commissioned anthology series 'Small Axe'

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A blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption: the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities.
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere

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The inside story of a group of men willing to risk all in the hunt for glory in the world’s toughest motor race: The 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The undisputed “King of Le Mans” is the dashing German driver for Audi, André Lotterer. The three-time winner is a master at fighting off pretenders to his throne but, this year, will the hunter become the hunted? His main challenge is Porsche's Aussie Grit, Formula 1 favourite Mark Webber - back at Le Mans after a long absence and determined to win. Having failed to finish the race in three attempts and come close to death on the track, he wonders how many more rolls of the dice he might have...
Focussing on the 2015 race, with unparalleled behind-the-scenes access, what plays out is a truly thrilling story of racing guts and glory with endless twists and turns for every team… This is racing seen as a battle for survival.
Presented in 4k 3D and using state-of-the-art technology, this is racing shown on the big screen as it has never before been seen. As Steve McQueen said, "Racing is life, everything else is just waiting."

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'Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans'
By 1970, Steve McQueen ruled Hollywood. Hot off the back of classics like ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Bullitt’ he could now make the movie that was his life’s passion: McQueen's experience on 'Le Mans' changed his life forever.
Interweaving stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews, this is the true story of how one of cinema's legends would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.
Cannes Film Festival 2015 - World premiere - Cannes Classics