Executive Producer Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God") and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall - an ambitious vision to grow an 8000km ‘wall of trees’ stretching across the entire continent to fight back against desertification, climate change and migration.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
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
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
Ravaged by war, the world recovers from a divided past. The last remaining survivors struggle to not only survive, but to also find their place. Morality is tested to its limits and a harsh environment has moulded demented madmen. Exploring themes of mental illness and equality, two strangers - a mute, and a man escaping his past - venture into the quiet world side by side. One looking to save his kidnapped lover from a masked gang of sociopaths, and the other seeking his stolen cassette player while being haunted by bizarre and ominous dreams. Both of them have one destination - a peaceful community only for women - a place called 'Eve.'
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
A group of artists on a small Greek island build an experimental music festival aiming to bridge the gap between the Greeks and the islands refugee community. Stories from Leros.
A short documentary following the owner of a chicken shop in East London. Nassif Fayadmarni moved here from Iraq and set up the challenging task of setting up a chicken shop.
We explore him, his shop and East Ham.
2023 – A separatist movement has ignited civil war in the North of England. The UK government has built a wall dividing the country. Trapped in a refugee camp north of the border, a teenage girl must choose between loyalty to her father and her political ideology.
Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mother-tongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.
Every second Saturday in July the city of Durham is taken over by miners, trade-unions and the public for a major event known locally as "The Big Meeting". The Durham Miners' Gala is an annual celebration of noise, colour, culture, creativity, unity and endeavour. Attracting 200,000 people, banners and brass bands parade through the streets to honour their heritage. 'The Big Meeting' reflects the past, present and future of the Gala and labour movement, whilst following four protagonists over the course of this momentous working-class occasion.
The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution.
Over images of a young boy playing the accordion in a home movie from 1940’s America, a radio host comments on the trial that was to ruin Lloyd Miller´s life decades later in the Eighties – for charges he was innocent of.
The images of the young boy are quickly replaced with images of an Iranian TV show from the 1970’s, where a sharply dressed man named Kurosh Ali Khan is being interviewed in Farsi about his musical creation, Oriental Jazz. Music kicks in, and now we see the man presented in a video, much younger, playing the santur, a Persian instrument, accompanied by jazz. A voice begins to narrate, in the third person, the story of Kurosh, an American man who is forced by political circumstances to leave the country he’s considered his only real home for seven years. He is on his way back to America, leaving his life as a famous TV host behind him.
You might think America is a democracy, where freedom of speech and basic rights are guaranteed. But at its heart, there is a great injustice. Against all the odds several extraordinary citizens are banding together and fighting back for their basic right to clean water. Armed only with facts and their illnesses, they risk arrest to take on the might of industry and government. From Flint to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story.
