Programme A-Z

Patrick Keiller’s wholly original journey through the UK capital is both a paean to the city and a critique of what it has come to represent.

After a decade in prison, artist George Anthony Morton returns home to reconcile with his family and grapple with past traumas by painting a series of portraits.

Against the backdrop of the Myanmar conflict, midwives Hla and Nyo Nyo's relationship is both caring and playful, bridging the divide between Buddhists and Muslims.

A cathartic celluloid journey through six unprecedented years in England – from Brexit and the Grenfell fire to Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19.

An Iranian filmmaker befriends a Syrian family in Brussels and they communicate past traumas and future dreams through drawings.

From sunset to sunrise. A bold ‘day in the life’ portrait of two women at their workplace: a strip club in Gothenburg.

Nikolay Stefanov's debut feature offers unfiltered access to the football hooligan community in one of Bulgaria’s roughest cities.

The daughter of Rebecca and John Garang returns to South Sudan to document her mother’s attempts to forge peace on the political stage.

For his documentary feature debut acclaimed filmmaker Ike Nnaebue retraces a journey he attempted as a young man.

In the early 1980s, director Bonnie Sherr Klein and professional stripper Lindalee Tracey set off to examine the pornography industry and its effects on society.

Two urbex and parkour-obsessed teenagers face up to reality following the death of their friend, in Peter Day’s riveting portrait of urban life.

Paul Chambers’ uncompromising yet uplifting film looks at the work of a Liverpool-based recovery living centre that uses art and sport to combat addiction.

This kaleidoscope of stories shines a light on Ukrainians bravely defending their land against the Russian invasion, where millions struggle for their right to exist.

After one of their community is killed by her husband, the cotton weavers of the Prairie Flowers co-operative come together to mourn, heal, dream and resist.

Eva Neymann documents everyday life in Odessa’s vast market, recording the thoughts of its traders and visitors, and highlighting its role as a vital artery in the city.

An actress asks a sex worker to help her create a film in which they share secrets of their professions, and they become both filmmakers and characters.

Rodrigo Reyes reconnects with Sansón, a Mexican migrant sentenced to life in prison, who he met when the director was a translator at his trial.

This documentary musical, filmed in a female prison, was created and produced in collaboration with inmates, and based on their life experiences.

Two filmmakers – one in Brazil, the other in the US – send each other video letters, each inspired by a woman experimental filmmaker, over the course of one year.

16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.

A woman witnesses the birth of a horse in the stable where she works – an image so strong that it continues to haunt her.

On the outskirts of Manchester, between the urban and the rural we find liminal spaces: forgotten, ignored and passed-by, but teaming with abundant life.

On a film reel electrified by static charges, we meet five people who survived the impact of lightning.