Programme A-Z

Machines milk cows and robots serve diners. In this quiet observation on the mechanisation of labour, humans feel increasingly irrelevant. Empathy passes to the machines.

Artist-turned-filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela offers up a personal and visually striking self-portrait of a life that grapples with the legacy of South Africa’s past.

When filmmaker Simon Chambers cuts short a shoot in India to tend to his dying uncle, he has no idea of the journey they’re about to embark on together.

An awful discovery turns Helen’s life upside down. Sexually explicit deepfake images appear on a porn site, with her own face edited onto another woman’s body.

Acclaimed filmmaker Leo Regan draws on decades of footage to create a portrait of the complex life of friend and photographer Lanre Fehintola.

Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences. 

This 360 VR documentary presents stories from the residents of Cissie Gool House, a previously disused Cape Town hospital, who live there to avoid being displaced from the area they call home.

A poetic and intimate portrait of two lifelong rivals, who are forced to share an empty village during the dead of winter.

Lila Penagos has fond childhood memories of her father telling her bedtime stories. She now asks him to tell her real stories about his past as a guerrilla fighter.

A compelling story of determination and resilience against oppression, focussing on the man who raised Venus and Serena to change the course of tennis history. 

We follow Otto Baxter, a 35-year-old man with Down Syndrome, over six years, as he writes and directs a foul-mouthed, autobiographical comedy-horror-musical set in Victorian London. 

After a seven-year hiatus from documentary filmmaking Rakhshan Banietemad set out to capture the hopes of a generation during the 2001 Iranian Presidential election. 

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

When a human rights activist, returning to the UK, has his electronic devices confiscated by border authorities, it highlights an unsettling programme of state surveillance.

With place as the main character, this film builds an ominous picture of a city constantly threatened by war, caught in a never-ending nightmare.

In an isolated village in the Arctic Circle, life is often brutal. Hunting walruses and whales, this community lives in close relation to death.

Tonje Hessen Schei’s film highlights the alarming political influence of American Evangelical Christians and their quest to bring on the Apocalypse. 

Seven independent female filmmakers voice their concerns about their political, creative and personal lives in the context of the society they live in. 

Jude Chehab’s debut feature untangles her family’s connection to a Syrian religious order, making for a nuanced and tense exploration of matrilineal trauma.

As rising sea-levels threaten the city of Miami, one local black community fight to save their neighbourhood from property developers and climate gentrification.

Diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, director Kit Vincent enlists his family for an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness.

A group of deaf people playfully explore the possibilities of Mexican Sign Language through theatre games and their own poetic creation.

The residents of a town built to house workers who produced the material used for the Nagasaki atomic bomb reflect on its troubled past.

The story of three pioneering US sportswomen who, in the 1970s, attempted to break into the most macho sport of all: competitive boxing.

Stories of Iran’s past and present intersect in Rakhshan Banietemad’s reflective, absorbing and personal portrait of how political life shapes infant’s lives.