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La Bola Negra tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017.

Directed by Academy Award® winner Siân Heder (CODA) and based on true events, Being Heumann is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.

This searching, Palme d’Or-winning moral dilemma pits preaching conservative Christian parents against a holier-than-thou liberal system.

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds was made to share the thoughtful insights, wisdom and a life of action and artistry of Africa’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka.

The Eyes of Ghana is a feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse— personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah— as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties.

Against the backdrop of war, poverty and sexual violence, two stories emerge in these films of overcoming the odds in and out of the ring. Empire Fighting Chance and Afrika Eye invite you to experience the sweet science African style.

At the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gleb, a powerful CEO, is preoccupied with feeding the war machine with workers, when he learns of his wife’s infidelity. Faced with this discovery and a complex professional decision, his scruples quickly fade.

Sonic Cinema and the Japan Foundation present the films of Montreal-based artist Daïchi Saïto, projected from his personal 35mm prints. A rare encounter with a singular voice in artist film practice, this programme highlights Saïto’s skill in bridging metaphysical concepts with sensory experience.

A secret affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man spirals into a political investigation. Muayad Alayan’s gripping Jerusalem drama explores intimacy, surveillance and unequal power.

A Jerusalem father is ordered by an Israeli court to pay his drowned son's debt. With no record of the death, he sets out to discover what really happened.

Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines, works at an elite country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men, but she soon discovers something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways.

Growing up on a Birmingham estate, childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. But now that they’ve hit thirty, harsh reality bites, and the future they once hoped for seems more out of reach than ever.

A filmmaker's search for her family's Holocaust history in Germany collides with the present, asking how memory culture can honour lives without being co-opted to perpetuate harm.

Mohanad Yaqubi answers a collaboration request from the late Jocelyne Saab, weaving her archive into a lyrical portrait of a filmmaker who documented the Palestinian revolution and the war in Lebanon.

Inspired by the director's experience of the siege of Yarmouk camp, a drama of ordinary lives for whom hunger and cold turn the smallest gestures into matters of survival.

An in conversation and screening celebrating the work of film writer, critic, maker Peter Wollen.

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.

A once invisible but extraordinary presence in the making of films, Angela Allen's status as a cinema legend has finally been honoured by a documentary in which she tells her remarkable story in her own words.

On 29th January 1997 Chris Morris’ current affairs satire Brass Eye was first unleashed on an unsuspecting television audience. Thirty years later it’s director, Michael Cumming, begins a tour of his cult film Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes.