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Storytelling Impact Autopsy
This Storytelling Impact Autopsy invites three artists to put their works through an exercise in social change analysis, led by experts from the campaigning sector.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Session
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Suddenly TV
A group of young Sudanese revolutionaries create an imaginary television station. Interviewing protestors, they confront the violence of the regime and imagine a new Sudan.
  • Roopa Gogineni
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
Film
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Surfacing
This virtual reality documentary takes the viewer on an immersive 360° journey through the daily life of mothers and children living in prisons and custodial institutions.
  • Rosa Rossella Schillaci
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Switchboard & Consultancies
Do you have questions about who is funding and distributing what, who is the right partner for your projects, and how to meet them?
  • Industry Programme
Marketplace Activity
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That's No Lady
An early work by the Co-op, this hard-hitting short unpicks the links between a casually misogynist culture and the lived reality of women experiencing domestic abuse.
  • Sheffield Film Co-op
  • 1977
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Body Politic
A portrait of Brandon Scott, Baltimore’s youngest Black Mayor, during his mayoral campaign and first year presiding over a city plagued by homicide.
  • Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
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The Castle
Martin Benchimol’s fascinating film is a singular portrait of a domestic worker who lives with her daughter in a ramshackle castle.
  • Martin Benchimol
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The D-Word: Why Disability Inclusion Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult
This session, featuring controllers, commissioners and filmmakers involved in TAP, will explain just how disability inclusion can be achieved and why it doesn’t have to be difficult.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Session
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The Deepest Breath
Breathtaking in more ways than one, Laura McGann’s ravishingly beautiful film chronicles a fascinating partnership at the heart of a dangerous extreme sport.
  • Laura McGann
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Good Fight Club
This series charts the fortunes of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) athletes fighting to make it from their South London gym to Las Vegas and the world championship.
  • Jack Retallack, Liz Biggs
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Good Fight Club + Conversation
An exclusive preview of the first episode of The Good Fight Club, followed by a conversation with the creators and special guests.
  • Film Programme
    Talks Programme
Film
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The Great Pyramids
The Great Pyramids uses Unreal Editor for Fortnite to faithfully recreate Giza during the 4th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt within the world's biggest game.
  • PRELOADED
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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The Greatest Show Never Made
In 2002 one man set out to change reality TV forever. For 30 people, his dream became a nightmare.
  • Ashley Francis-Roy
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
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The Greatest Show Never Made + Conversation
An exclusive preview of the first episode of The Greatest Show Never Made, followed by a conversation with the creators and special guests.
  • Film Programme
    Talks Programme
Film
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The Gullspång Miracle
A series of coincidences lead sisters Kari and May to Olaug, the spitting-image of an older sibling who was believed to have committed suicide decades ago.
  • Maria Fredriksson
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Hearing
This thought-provoking and innovative film challenges immigration processes through the accounts of four people whose lives were impacted by it.
  • Lisa Gerig
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Invention of the Other
A record of an attempt to contact the Korubo, a remote indigenous tribe that occupies territory deep inside the Amazonian rainforest.
  • Bruno Jorge
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Kurious Drinks
  • Industry Programme
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The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Set in Taiwan’s Green Island Prison during the White Terror, The Man Who Couldn’t Leave recounts in 360° victims’ stories from this dark period of recent history.
  • Singing Chen
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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The Mineral Dreams
A rock dreams of a man. A fleeting thought. This stone is the god of time, pointing out to man his relativity.
  • Timofei Zubrov-Andreev
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Mountains
Two decades after the tragedy that dramatically disrupted his family’s life, Christian Einshøj records their attempts at reconciliation.
  • Christian Einshøj
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
Film
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The Price of Truth
How far would you go to defend the idea of a free press? Russia’s only independent newspaper and its editor fight for democracy.
  • Patrick Forbes
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
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The Price of Truth + Conversation
Screening of The Price of Truth, followed by a conversation with director Patrick Forbes and special guests.
  • Film Programme
    Talks Programme
Film
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The Synergy Between Podcast Stories & Film
This panel centres around recent case studies. What challenges and opportunities lie within adaptation, and how does it change the value and name of the documentary business game.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Session
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The Takeover
Filmed in 2021 and 2022, as the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, this film documents the country’s rapid transformation and the women who refuse to lose their rights.
  • Anders Hammer
  • 2023
  • Film Programme
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