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Synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell reunited for one last time at London’s The O2 on Sunday 30th September 2018 – their first UK show for 15 years. Marc Almond and Dave Ball performed together for a one-off show, ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’, as they celebrate their 40th anniversary as a duo with their first UK show since 2003. This was the band’s last EVER show.

'By The Grace Of God' follows the tragic odyssey of Juergen, whose attempt to make contact with his imagined mother, the Queen of England, leads him to a sense of personal crisis, of aporia.

Luke Fowler constructed this tribute to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait on the occasion of her centenary. Setting off to Tait’s native Orkney, Fowler creates a record of her life and work through images of her past dwellings, filming locations and notebooks. The soundtrack consists of location recordings made in Orkney and an archival tape recording of Tait reciting her poem “Houses,” in which she reflects on the meaning of home.

When the limited-edition Lego-Batman Cup comes back into stock, two Agents set off on an exciting adventure to acquire the cup…. But things soon enough don’t go to plan!

An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessments that become progressively performative to attest to the legitimacy and acceptability of their relationship.

For over 25 years, the BBC gave voice to the silenced people of East Germany by inviting them to secretly write in to a radio programme called Letters without Signature. Broadcast on the BBC's German Service, the programme gave voice to ordinary East German citizens who wrote about life under the repressive communist regime. On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this documentary explores an unknown story of the Cold War. It looks at the impact of the Letters without Signature series on both the letter writers in East Germany - who faced jail if discovered - and the producers of the show in London, particularly its mysterious presenter, Austin Harrison. Using never-before-seen Stasi files and recordings, London Calling: Cold War Letters documents the tit-for-tat propaganda war between the Stasi and BBC. It reveals a fascinating world of spies, secret state subterfuge and individual acts of bravery.

Sky Sports News reporter Gary Coterill spends a day with Jose Mourinho as he reflects on his time as Manchester United manager and looks to his future.

Jimi Hendrix became an over night sensation during the late 60s, however his fame didn’t last long after he tragically passed aged just 27, this tragedy became subject to a lot of controversy and there were lots of theories and rumours surrounding his death. This documentary offers an in-depth look at the artist's last 24 hours and attempts to clear the air surrounding his tragic passing, including appearances and testimonials from some of the people that knew him best.

West Ham Utd were once a team famous for their attacking style of football and World Cup heroes, including charismatic captain Bobby Moore. In this warm and nostalgic comic-book style documentary, John Lyall's key acquisitions reminisce to tell the tale of how West Ham United moved into a new era - leaving the desperation of the late seventies, and into the hope and ambition of the eighties.

A documentary about the efforts to ban the global khat trade in Great Britain that routes its way from from war-torn Somalia to the streets of London.

A human connection is made between a child on the street and a transgender sex worker through the magic of cinema.

This film captures Rattle's very first performance as Music Director; a programme in which British composers took centre-stage. The world-premiere of Helen Grime's Fanfares, which became the first movement of the work Woven Space, opened the concert before violinist Christian Tetzlaff took to the stage to perform the concerto written for him in 2010 by Harrison Birtwistle. Two more works close to Rattle's heart followed: Thomas Adès' Asyla and the pocket-sized Symphony No 3 by the late Oliver Knussen. Finally, Rattle's stunning interpretation of the Enigma Variations brought the concert to a close and then the audience to its feet, filling the Barbican Hall with rapturous applause.

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will arise in the most unpleasant of forms.

The Singer sewing machine, international icon and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, helped put the town of Clydebank on the map. Over the course of a century, it employed tens of thousands of 'bankies' before its demise nearly 40 years ago. This documentary charts the story of those workers: how their lives were intertwined with the fortunes of Scotland’s first US multinational company. The programme pays homage to the Singer machine, and the huge impact it made on families and households all over the world.

Gaz Oakley goes on a culinary journey across his home country of Wales & is blown away with what he finds.

An experimental documentary short made over a one-day shoot in West Bengal's Poush Mela. In remote rural festivals all around India the 'Well of Death' has been a long-notorious attraction - where for £0.50 per ticket, you can see stunt drivers rocket in circles across 60ft walls, throwing caution to the wind and defying gravity.

The British sculptor travels across the world to view early examples of art in France, Spain, Indonesia and Australia as he seeks to find out where art first began.

This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.

Clapperboard claps, from rushes from a film I worked on as an editor, synced with gunfire.

A short documentary providing an introduction to and snapshot of Pxssy Palace, a London-based QTIPOC (queer trans intersex people of colour) collective and club night.

A collection of animated visual poems that illustrate a girl's surreal journey towards facing her fear of intimate relationships and of being touched. She is seen running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea, until her pain turns to relief.

4 Waters: Deep Implicancy is an experiment in collaboration that traces the striking possibility of a state without value. The artists’ research crosses four bodies of water — the Mediterranean sea; and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans — to connect four disparate islands: Lesvos, Haiti, Marshall Islands and Tiwi. Each island holds within it stories of tremendous violence, but also the potential for otherwise. The film assembles fragments that touch on a kind of knowledge embedded in a moment preceding human history or geological timescales — a moment of total entanglement described by the artists as Deep Implicancy. In excavating the link between geological shifts and material realities, they ask: can an earthquake release the knowledge for a revolution in the very way we know the world?

Kenneth Macharia is under the threat of being deported from the UK back to his home country of Kenya, where as an openly gay man he faces the risk of persecution, mob violence, and even death.

Manx musician Mera Royle started playing the harp when she was only nine. Nine years later, she was collecting the Young Folk Award at BBC Radio 2's Folk Award ceremony. This film explores Mera's journey in music.

A short documentary about the history of the fishing industry in Leigh-on-Sea which also raises concerns as to how it will survive in the future.

BLACK TO TECHNO is a music documentary charting the anthropological, socio-economical, geopolitical roots of techno from Detroit and how it travelled and translated into becoming the soundtrack to the fall of the wall in Berlin.

Explore the power of dance in an intoxicating portrait of a club scene in the heart of Manchester. (BFI Flare 2019)

Manic-depressive Jack must find a way to leave his manic highs behind him. Can the dullness of ordinary life ever compare to the magic of mania? And is sanity and stability really worth the sacrifice?

Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies, paired up on a website with the promise of money, gifts, and a luxury lifestyle. It sounds unsavory, but is it a legitimate business? This highly revealing documentary lifts the lid of the Sugar Baby Dating phenomenon, and talks to girls who have a string of rich older men funding their lives and the women who feel damaged by the whole experience.

It is the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history - the so-called 'Jack the Stripper' murders took place in Swinging Sixties London. Professor Wilson and his investigative team - which includes former detective Jackie Malton and forensic psychologist Professor Mike Berry - begin their hunt for the killer not in London, but 150 miles away in Abertillery, South Wales. In 1921, the Welsh mining town was devastated by the double murder of two schoolgirls when eight-year-old Freda Brunell and 11-year-old Florence Little were killed just weeks apart by a local boy, 15-year-old Harold Jones, who the Abertillery residents still refer to as their 'Dark Son'.

Capturing the history of the infamous and beloved old UK home video label, with the man himself Michael Lee appearing for the first time ever on camera to tell his story. VIPCO brought many bizarre and horror released titles to the UK shores in the 80s on home video, who ended up getting caught up in the video nasty scandal.

Janina Ramirez presents a screengrab of inspiring, beautiful and urgent stories from emerging and established film-makers with their interpretations of life's big topics. A Fashion Show; Birdcage; Body to Body; Ffasiwn, The Film; Folk; Light Noise; Through a Screen Darkly; Be Different Today; Palm Tree; Shiner; Demons Before Breakfast; How Do You Know You're in Love?; Sensational Simmy; What Does It Mean to Be British?

Resurrected, empowered Mummy smashes her stereotypes and lashes back at all those who try to confine her. Film made with Vera's partner, Phil Mulloy, who contributed making sound and music.

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located at the centre of four distinct districts that exist in harmony in central Taipei. The film connects the four districts by using morphing animation, presenting the vague and complex atmosphere around the village.

That’s la Morte: Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead' is a new 80 minute documentary that considers how cult and horror film cycles came to reflect wider anxieties within 1970s Italy.

A spirit emerges from icy cold water to explore the beautiful snow covered garden she finds herself trapped within.

Comedian and presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and in the process learn the truth about how the industry operates.

Examining the tragic events in Paris in July 2000, when a Concorde crashed only two minutes after take-off, claiming 113 lives.

If you had the chance to see a lost loved one again, would you take it? When technology gives Max that very chance, he soon realises that the consequences aren't what he was expecting.

Jessica is twenty-something year old that hates her appearance. One night, with the prospect of a night out with friends looming, her insecurities manifest themselves in a very peculiar way.

Scottish video essayist and writer Jessica McGoff’s 2020 video essay response to Trouble Every Day explores what makes it such a singular and tactile film

The incredible story of Rose Reilly from Ayrshire, who became a feminist icon, and whose tenacity and talent paved the way for women in football.

It's all about the title.

The little creatures of the riverbank emerge to bask in the glow of an enchanting moon. Toby Tatum's Night on the Riverbank was created through reworking footage from a forgotten B&W children’s programme.

In his only UK broadcast interview, Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger talks to the BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan about his ride of a lifetime. From Star Wars to the streaming wars, and from negotiating with Rupert Murdoch to buy 21st Century Fox, to how his close friendship with Apple’s Steve Jobs came about, the most powerful man in Hollywood explains the trends shaping global media.

Debut film from horror filmmaker Samantha Strachan. While investigating abandoned buildings, a group of young explorers stumble upon a deadly secret.

The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland, widely seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles. Mark Cousins – who left Belfast at 18 – returns to his hometown to reflect on how the place and its history have been used and occasionally abused by cinema. He traces how the legacy of division has impacted on the nation’s cinematic imagination; and, in a city that once had one of the highest rates of movie-going in the UK, he scrambles around the ruins of Belfast’s once-grand cinemas.

As part of our long-running short films initiative, we pitched the question to our team "Can you visualise the frustrations of the creative process?" So we organised some brainstorming sessions on the problems with brainstorming sessions, had committee meetings on the pains of design by committee, and bounced ideas around about how we bounce ideas around. Embracing a minimal design language to focus on the characterisation, we created a short film which is a montage of relatable scenarios for the creative professional.

Patrick Staff’s film ‘Depollute‘ unflinchingly looks at the materialization of politics in violence done to one’s own body.

Alistair is late for the funeral and Carla is annoyed. Her loyal, family friend is gone. The Vicar is starting the service and Harry the fencer has a job to do. This is the story of Basil's final send off.

Set at TribFest, a tribute festival in Yorkshire, this feature length documentary looks at tribute bands and the individuals behind them.

Adam and Mary, two gay siblings, decide to bring their partners home for Christmas dinner. They really don't want to come out though, so they come up with a plan; they'll swap partners and pretend to be two straight couples. After a tragic first encounter with Grandma, who has a lot of opinions about children out of wedlock, foreigners and - bread, Steve can't take it anymore and threatens to leave. Adam has his way of persuading him, but that may involve the two of them, a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and a very high chance of Grandma walking in.

Working-class Tory and Leave-voting comedian Geoff Norcott is on a mission to expose the middle-class hypocrisy that he believes is ruining Britain.

Fernando is touring and has half a dozen projects in development. His fans adore him and he is a frequent guest on The Charlie E. Gimpson Late Evening Show which has been making the rounds since 1993 starting on channel 1 before moving to 2 in 1998 and eventually 3 in 2001. All seems well for Fernando although he finds it difficult to keep his own life separate from the one that he shares with the rest of the world, a minor intrusion on his personal life will send him over the edge.

In our turbulent times, silence seems like a necessary escape. 'The art of reducing noise' evaluates this concept looking in-particular at one important figure in history who used this in an astonishing way to evaluate the world we live in.

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Made in 48 Hours for the London Sci-Fi 48 Hour Challenge.

A retired Scottish folksinger spends his daily routine in his neighbourhood, remembering his youth and taking care of his four goldfish