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    An African Election

    Jarreth Merz – who spent seven years of his childhood in Ghana - attempts to dismantle such negative stereotypes, challenging ...

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    Position Among The Stars

    The third and final instalment to Leonard Retel Helmich’s Indonesian trilogy: an intimate portrait of three generations of the...

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    Bombay Beach

    Bombay Beach is the living embodiment of the failed American dream, although the use of the word ‘living’ could be questiona...

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    How To Start A Revolution

    A powerful portrait of one of the most influential political thinkers of our generation....

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    Page One

    An intimate and refreshingly honest portrayal of a year on the New York Times media desk....

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    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters opens with a shocking truth: in one year alone, Chicago saw more killings than American soldiers in Iraq and Af...

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    Project Nim

    Far from being like the Brady Bunch with a monkey, Project Nim is a lot darker than director James Marsh's previous film, Man on...

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    Sound It Out

    Jeanie Finlay’s documentary portrait of the last surviving vinyl record shop in the North East of England explores the breadth...

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    Bobby Fischer Against the World

    by Laura Thornley. Who knew a documentary about chess could be quite so interesting?...

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    Sweetgrass

    Eight years in the making and with a cast of literally thousands, Sweetgrass is a beautifully epic yet unromantic glimpse into t...

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    A Small Act

    A Small Act focuses on the current day consequences of one Swede’s good deed in sponsoring a young Kenyan student through scho...

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    The Oath

    The Oath is the second part in the proposed non-fiction trilogy addressing post 9/11 America by Oscar nominated filmmaker Laura ...

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    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    A cinematic shudder of awe and wonder that opens the Chauvet Cave’s surprisingly modern steel door and delves deep into the co...

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    My Kidnapper

    Back in 2003, news was received in England that eight tourists had been taken hostage in Colombia by the ELN. Amongst those take...

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    My Perestroika

    My Perestroika is stuffed with history, fuller and fatter than a taxidermy Russian bear but it's really about five people who we...

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    Gasland

    Discarding his usual guise as founder and artistic director of film and theatre group the International WOW company, Josh Fox do...

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    Marathon Boy

    Marathon Boy follow a hero’s journey so ripe for the making of myth that Joseph Campbell would be proud, and culminates in tra...

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    Catfish

    A gentle look at the point where the projected virtual self and the actual self meet....

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    Enemies of the People

    With unprecedented access to the aging Nuon Chea, Brother Number Two in the Khmer Rouge, the filmmakers have secured unparallele...

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    The Battle For Barking

    Shot over a year, Laura Fairrie’s unfettered lens records the political struggle between Nick Griffin (BNP leader) and Margare...

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    After The Apocalypse

    Resilience can be entirely bewildering. In the remote steppes of Semiplatinsk, Kazakhstan, not only do people continue to live ...

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    Into Eternity

    I’m going to plump a guess and predict you haven’t seen a documentary like this recently. Eerily spine-tingling yet strangel...

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    Robinson In Ruins

    Patrick Keiller returns with a sequel to his two previous essay films London and Robinson in Space. Highly experimental, the doc...

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    Defamation

    When Defamation hit the festival circuit last year its unveiling was the subject of much discussion and perhaps some controversy...

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    Living With Us

    The British public are no stranger to the unusual relationship that can exist between man and beast; we are the nation who proud...

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    Devadasi: Prostitutes of God

    This may be the only time you’ll ever read these words (or perhaps not, in which case seek help), but Meat Loaf said it best w...

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    Presumed Guilty

    Presumed Guilty follows the plight of two young Mexican attorneys who make a documentary in an attempt to free a wrongly convict...

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    H2Oil

    In her gritty documentary Shannon Walsh explores the social and ecological impact that the rush towards large-scale oil extracti...

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    Football Fables

    Over the past decade an increasing number of African footballers have been plucked from their rural home fields and given contra...

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    180° South

    Chris Malloy’s 180° Degrees South follows the journey of Jeff Johnson, a surfing and mountain climbing enthusiast, who abando...

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    Sons of Cuba

    Sons of Cuba is director Andrew Lang’s feature debut. It follows Cristian, Santos and Junior, three young Cuban boys, nickname...

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    Only When I Dance

    Beadi Finzi’s beautifully shot documentary follows two promising young dancers from Rio de Janeiro as they aim for a career in...

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    All Tomorrow's Parties

    Watching All Tomorrow's Parties is sort of like arriving at the end of a wildly debauched party - you're not quite sure what's g...

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    Beautiful Losers

    An exuberant celebration of lo-fi culture that examines the drive to be creative, the nature of collaboration and the intersecti...

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    The End of The Line

    Plenty more fish in the sea? Not any more, as it turns out. Since commercial fishing began more than 50 years ago, man has been ...

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    Encounters At The End Of The World

    Herzog’s characteristic fatalism and focus on the fragility of human existence is set against the uncompromising vista of the ...

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    Afghan Star

    The last thing most of us probably associate with Afghanistan is lighthearted Saturday night TV. But following the invasion in 2...

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    Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11

    Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 is the latest in a long line of films based around the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The hy...

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    Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

    Often cited as the most important person in American publishing, Barney Rosset is an overlooked giant of the American counter cu...

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    F*CK: The Film That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    An entertaining, thoughtful, if a little misshapen and somewhat laboured documentary about that ultimate 'sentence enhancer’. ...

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    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    Peppered with dreamy, mesmeric sequences evoking the surreality of Thompson’s own imagination, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr....

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    Roman Polanksi: Wanted and Desired

    An indictment of the legal system itself, and especially the presiding judge Laurence Rittenband, director Marina Zenovich takes...

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    Trouble the Water

    Several filmmakers have tried to make sense of the chaos caused by hurricane Katrina and give voice to the outrage felt in its w...

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    Waltz with Bashir

    Waltz with Bashir tells the story of director Ari Folman’s quest to find out what really happened in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon w...

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    Tyson

    As one of the most notorious boxers in history, Mike Tyson has been judged both for his genius and for his madness in the ring. ...

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    Of Time and the City

    Terence Davies’ long-awaited return to our screens comes with an epic portrait of his home city, Liverpool, told through his o...

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    Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

    Almost fifty years after Primary by Richard Leacock, Jonathan Demme handholds a camera to follow a political man in campaign in ...

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    CSNY: Déjà Vu

    This document of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s 2006 ‘Freedom of Speech Tour’ isn’t your average Rockumentary; there a...

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    Blindsight

    by Juliette Goursat...

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    Her Name is Sabine

    Her Name Is Sabine is French actress Sandrine Bonnaire’s beautiful portrait of her younger sister Sabine who, at 28, was insti...

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This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard - DFG Member Offer (Member only)
  • Posted 03.02.2011
  • by Kerry McLeod
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February 2011 | BFI Southbank Win one of FIVE pairs of tickets to the screening of...

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COPYFRIGHT! Creative Confusion in the Digital Age
  • Posted 10.06.2010
  • by Kerry McLeod
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Copyright at the best of times is an enigma, keeping retinues of lawyers armed wit...

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Marathon Boy
  • Posted 13.01.2011
  • by Amber Dobinson
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by Matt Strachan This may be disappointing to a small minority, but Marathon Boy i...

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Presumed Guilty
  • Posted 29.07.2011
  • by Amber Dobinson

Presumed Guilty is nominated for three Emmys. Congratulations to our friend Geoffr...

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