Projects in categories: Documentary

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A deeply immersed and urgent film that reveals the cost of standing up to Vladimir Putin and telling the truth about modern Russia. It follows a whistleblower from inside Russia's poison programme as he attempts to escape, a prominent political activist who is poisoned twice and now stands trial for treason, and the man exposing Putin's murder machine as he is forced to go on the run himself.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Rome Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025
Official Selection Hot Docs International Film Festival 2025

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At once a portrait of techno producer Carl Craig and a love letter to his city of Detroit, Desire: The Carl Craig Story lays out the vast backdrop of artists and venues who played a part in the rise of Craig’s massive, genre-defying career
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women in search of prosperity have their faith in industrialisation tested to the limit.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - Jury Special Mention
Warsaw Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition - Jury Special Mention

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Country music is changing - or maybe it’s returning to its roots. This musical documentary traces the troubled history and inclusive future of the genre with performances from today’s most talented iconoclasts, including Blanco Brown, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, and BRELAND.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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The story of Catholic nun and leading death penalty abolitionist, Sister Helen Prejean, whose story was first captured in the 1995 film DEAD MAN WALKING. Now, almost 30 years later, filmmaker Dominic Sivyer takes a look at six decades of the life and work of Sister Helen as she continues to be an inspirational force for justice.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Working with their team at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, Anya Neistat, a brilliant war crimes investigator, joins forces with Solomiia Stasiv, a young Ukrainian woman just entering the field. Together they document atrocities in the fight to bring Russian generals to trial and justice to the Ukrainian people.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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As the Palestinian identity continues to be threatened with erasure, Palestinians turn to their folk dance, the dabke, to assert their existence. Ultimately, they dance because they love life, and insist on living it.
Official Selection Leuven International Short Film Festival 2024

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Exploring the themes of migration, forced displacement and the removal of children. Intersecting a variety of personal testimonies expressed through music, interviews and poetry, these multi-layered responses reflect on the issues surrounding the complexities of both the historical and more recent UK immigration laws.

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A son is coming home and his mother is cooking his favourite meal. A short film about food, memory and loss.
Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2024

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A day in the life of Claire. FARM DAYS is a heartfelt glimpse into the world of a farm manager and her twelve alpacas as they engage in feeding, trekking, and community volunteering in the woods of Sheffield, UK.

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At 80 years old, Libby Houston still scales the 300-foot cliffs of Bristol's Avon Gorge to investigate rare plants. But as it stands, there's only one known member of her namesake discovery - Houston’s Whitebeam - and reflecting on its inevitable extinction prompts Libby to contemplate her own legacy.
Through tragic loss and discovery, this is the story of her life’s entanglement with the environment.

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Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.