Programme A-Z

Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov presents an unsparing portrait of Mariupol under siege and the bravery of those struggling to survive in it.

Angels of the House of Sun remains one of Rakhshan Banietemad’s most articulate critiques of the treatment of women in contemporary Iranian society. 

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

An account of the hazardous journey that North Korean dissidents – and those who help them – take to flee one of the world’s most repressive regimes.

A moving portrait of Dalton Harris, the final winner of The X Factor UK, as he navigates harassment over his sexuality and representing his home country.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Julie Cohen turns her focus towards the lives of three intersex people, in this heartfelt and urgent call for equality.

Chicago, 2018. A man is shot dead in the street by the police. Playing out in real-time, Incident reconstructs this traumatic event from a variety of synchronised viewpoints.

The Syrian swimmer who pulled the boat that carried her and another 18 refugees to Greece now copes with the consequences of becoming a famous activist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A record of an attempt to contact the Korubo, a remote indigenous tribe that occupies territory deep inside the Amazonian rainforest.

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.

Surveillance reaches new levels of invasiveness in China, where advances in technology allow the state increasing control over public, private and political life.

In the face of personal loss, a lawyer seeks to redress the injustice of colonisation through the establishment of an Indigenous forum at the European Union.

Three former political prisoners of the Iranian regime re-enact their experiences of interrogation, torture and isolation in Mehran Tamadon’s visceral and confrontational film.

Hindi-language journalist Ravish Kumar and filmmaker Vinay Shukla examine the rapidly deteriorating state of television reporting in India.

From the mouth of a descendant, we hear the story of Yarokamena, an Indigenous leader who organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazon.