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Based on a four-on-the-floor beat and a Wall of Sound. On top of that is a landscape full of motion and colour, which offers a new perspective.

A courageous arborist Beth and her colleagues spend an exhausting night in the middle of the countryside trying at all costs to save their orchards from the destructive frost.

It’s 5 years since Laura’s critically acclaimed show 'Trying', her searingly honest, achingly funny experience of depression and trying for a baby. Since then she’s written another hit show, published two books, conquered TV comedy, created two hit podcasts, oh, and gained zero babies (unless you count the dog, which no one does). In this brand new show Laura explores life in the continuation of being childless; trying to be body positive about a body you loathe and trying not to get too attached to pigeons.

During lockdown, comedians experimented with hundreds of online comedy gigs that connected people worldwide. Access Festival curates the best examples of these, beaming comedians from their homes into yours via Zoom and NextUp. So this January - stay in, warm up and enjoy over 15 unique and hilarious virtual gigs that pioneer a new way to enjoy comedy, streamed directly into your home.

While navigating through an arduous journey with lupus, Kate Appleby continually engages and wholeheartedly immerses herself in outdoor adventures. Spreading awareness of hidden illnesses, Kate has become a powerfully inspiring woman in the outdoor community. This documentary examines the psychological and physical benefits yielded through thoughtful and respectful engagement with one’s environment and explores the human connection to nature.

The metamorphoses of a shapeless dancer in seven steps, from birth to death.

Tall tales from Brexit Britain run riot in this deadpan pool hall comedy.

Drawn from Zaman’s five-year collaboration with a group of Black and Global Majority women affected by incarceration, this engaging work interrogates the intersections of structural racism, classism and misogyny.

Andrei Proskuryakov's documentary delves into a profound examination and contemplation of the events that transpired on January 31, 1945. On that day, the Nazis perpetrated a large-scale execution of approximately 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp on the shores of the Baltic Sea, near the village of Palmnicken in East Prussia. The film is meticulously structured around three pivotal individuals: Martin Bergau, a former Hitler Youth member who was connected to the tragedy; Gunther Nitsch, a German-American writer whose grandfather was involved in exhuming the victims» bodies; and Simcha Koplowicz, the son of Sheva Koplowicz, a survivor of the massacre. Through these characters, the documentary meticulously examines the historical silence that surrounded this tragedy and endeavors to reveal the unvarnished truth surrounding the event.

An affectionate portrait of the Burryman - a long-lasting tactile tradition in South Queensferry, Scotland, in which a man dresses in a head-to-toe outfit of sticky burrs and parades the streets for one day each August. Filmed over a week in 16mm, the film follows Andrew – the current Burryman – in his journey to collect the burrs, make the outfit and parade the South Queensferry streets during a single sun-soaked day in August 2022.

Nathan is alone for the night with Anouk, his three-year-old daughter, for the first time. He has no car, no money, no place to sleep for the night. The evening turns into a long night full of encounters, mostly of men like him wandering aimlessly and drinking, recounting stories of the children they have lost.

Truck driver Abu Husain, like many guest workers in Qatar, spends endless hours in a self-contained world of standing, waiting, and tenaciously moving trucks on the fringes of society.

“Aiming at the Apocalypse” explores religious futurism in a triptych of three parts; before, during and after leaving religion, using the phobic mirage of a motorcycle as an anchor throughout. Emotions are imbued on the object, one that is already a symbol of strength, desire and freedom. Throughout the film, the motorcycle evolves from an object of transportation to one of transformation, a mode of navigating gender and sexuality upon leaving religion. The film reckons with difficult memories, the effect of religion on the body in the present and the grief of what is left behind as it looks towards the future.

A short film about the detrimental side effects tablets can cause.

A group of friends find an old map and decide to seek the treasure, but someone comes in their way...

A castaway, Tofu, is found ashore by a group of musicians. The band welcomes their newcomer. Meanwhile, at the other side of sea, something is calling upon Tofu in reminiscence of a past storm.

We might never be ready to deal with death but is Death ever fed up of having to deal with us? When a man wakes to find Death sat on the corner of his bed, he is about to find out.

Set in the inner city of Handsworth, Birmingham, UK - Results Day is a coming of age story that follows “book-smart” Curtis and “street-smart” Jordan, best friends and inseparable since childhood. Curtis dreams of leaving Handsworth while Jordan dreams of ruling it. But opening their A-level results reveals a surprising twist - Curtis, despite all his revision, has not done as well as he hoped, while Jordan, despite not revising at all, has done better than anyone expected. Curtis is disappointed. His results have altered the perception of himself, Jordan and the trajectory of his life. Jordan’s only worry is the reaction when he takes his results home. The looming threat of an uncertain future causes the tension between them to escalate into an argument putting them at odds with each other. As they make up and part ways the bitter-sweet reality of their fates finally sets in… Their exam results mean things will never be the same again.

Earth receives a broadcast from an alternate Earth, showcasing random fragments of day-time television that aired on the day their world ended.

"Marica" is a portrait of a Donatella di Cola, a butterfly breeder in Ciociaria, a region between Rome and Naples. She is portrayed as Marica, a pre-roman goddess who reigned over the animal world. It is a documentary and poetic work.

If all fiction is a documentary about its filming and all documentary is fiction as a sequence of ordered events, this film experiments with the possibilities of both genres and becomes a reflection on the production conditions of independent cinema. An essay about experience, creation and expectation, embodied in a character who invents himself.

A short documentary exploring the experiences and opinions LGBTQ+ people have about publicly displaying their love for their partners.

An astonishing “half abstract night-walk fantasy” based on drawings by the great Miles Davis backed by his interpretation of the Tina Turner classic.

During the UK Covid-19 lockdowns the artist kept a daily visual diary in the form of digital collages or GIFs. ‘HOMOPERSPECTIVES’ contains selected extracts from the visual diary. Each individual GIF reflects upon themes such as mental health, the virus, love, sex (be)longing, (in)visibility, (im)possibilities and the day-to-day. The male figures in this series were extracted from pre-1950s photography, vintage gay adult magazines and the works of Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland to name a few. What’s most notable about these works is how the function of the male figures function changes from the erotic(-objective) to a more emotive context.

Stanley Roberts played for Real Madrid basketball in the 1990-199 season. The following year he played the first of his eight seasons that he played in the NBA. His former teammates and coaches sum up his potential in the phrase 'Stanley was better than Shaquille O'Neal, his teammate at Louisiana State.' However Stanley Roberts suffered several serious injuries and was expelled from the NBA in 1999 for drug use. The next news about him announced that he was broke and had gone to jail for cocaine possession. With no money and no hope, Stanley thought about suicide, but someone helped him.

Soccer may not remember them, but they will never forget the year they were the top scorers in LaLiga. Informe+ rescues the most singular protagonists of this award in honor of the Basque striker of the 1920s.

A journey through countries and souls, greatly reduced to the audiovisual.

Two film students desperately try to create a documentary for their final project whilst putting in as little effort as possible.

The story of a panic attack; of one, no, two hands dancing; of a party that does not fit everyone; of a tramp challenging the divine; of a little girl that aged a bit. The story of everybody, of somebody, or maybe the story of nobody at all, that unfolds under the eyes of an atonic spectator. The fragmented story of the myth of the common man, of their strengths and their weaknesses, of their feelings and their emotions, of their success and thier failure. In a few words, the story of the human contradiction. The story of the steps of the first and last individual, and all of those who walked in the meantime. The human life.

'Are You Crying Right Now?' is an experimental long-form music video that delves into the intricate dynamics of a lifelong friendship between two individuals. As they grapple with the painful realisation of growing apart, the story takes us on an emotional journey across multiple universes, where they are faced with the challenging truth that their friendship may no longer serve their best interests.

This documentary tells the story of the good neighborly ties established between Moroccans and Algerians in a small village called Aïn Kihal in western Algeria, in the Oranie region, where the director's family lived.

A dreamlike story of coming of age, depicting a transgender protagonist who takes his younger self, KID, on a journey through the woods in summer. Interwoven in different timelines, encounters with a horse and a motocross bike suggest the protagonist's literal and metaphorical coming-of-age as a gesture of friendship with the inner child.

A melancholic voice comes back through a conscious dream just before his birth, when he was closer to his mother

In Boutelfil, on the edge of the Chadian desert, a community gather to discuss the recent drought. For the first time in 30 years, they decide to organise ‘Amchilini’, a tradition that obliges unmarried women in the community to choose husbands in the belief that it will ward off misfortunes.