Programme A-Z

A defiant journalist confronts corruption and the curtailing of press freedoms in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

The director of affordable housing exposé Push tackles another urgent topic, as he reflects on the concept of the social contract as a tool for abusive capitalism.

This powerful study of the human cost of globalisation connects declining industry and growing social inequality in the UK to the exploitation of labour in the Global South.

A searing account of a contentious currency, inherited from the French colonial system, which exposes the complex realities of economic imperialism in Africa.

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. 

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. 

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

A portrait of Brandon Scott, Baltimore’s youngest Black Mayor, during his mayoral campaign and first year presiding over a city plagued by homicide.

This thought-provoking and innovative film challenges immigration processes through the accounts of four people whose lives were impacted by it.

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.

How far would you go to defend the idea of a free press? Russia’s only independent newspaper and its editor fight for democracy.

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.

Director Taku Aoyagi underwent a career change during the pandemic, becoming an Uber Eats rider. Will he survive?

Rakhshan Banietemad gives voice to a multitude of Iranian women as they continue to fight for their rights and freedoms in the run up to the 2009 Presidential election.