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Camp, retro mockumentary depicting a strange community of humans in 1970s England who believed they had become plants.

In this revelatory documentary, hip-hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy (aka Fred Brathwaite) saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian renaissance art in 15th-century style – on horseback. Amidst superstar artists such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Ghiberti and Carpaccio, Fab discovers groundbreaking images of a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society that have slipped through the cracks of art history.

A documentary telling the story of composer George Butterworth's life and music from his earliest childhood to his final hours in the violent confusion of the trenches.

Exploring Brian Lara’s remarkable ascent in 1994, the film celebrates his development in Trinidad and features interviews with iconic names from the world of cricket. Lara himself features in the film through an exclusive contribution and extensive archival interviews. In May 2019 during the latter stages of production Lara kindly granted the director very special access to film at his 50th birthday celebrations and in his own private museum at his residence in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

A hybrid film set in London by a Rwandan director, exploring a three­way relationship between a mysterious Nigerian man, a British woman and her ex. After his death, Simon appears to the ex as a ghost to tell his story, demanding a presence that was denied him as an asylum seeker. British and European political furor threaten both the director’s film plans and his stay in the UK. The fictional scenes are intercut with scenes of demonstrations.

This tram terminates at Wolverhampton St Georges. An observational documentary chronicling the inter-city tram journey between central Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Edna O’Brien is one of the greatest literary talents and rule breakers of her generation. In 1960, her revolutionary debut novel, The Country Girls, broke down social and sexual barriers for women and was subsequently banned in her native country of Ireland. The awrd-winning O’Brien continues to produce some of the most urgent work of her unparalleled career, with her eighteenth novel, Girl, a searing story inspired by the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, to be published later this year. In this honest and engaging documentary, Edna O’Brien reflects on her remarkable and ongoing writing life, interwoven with actors who perform extracts from her novels and rare family archive footage.

The Asphodel Phases takes the viewer on a drifting exploration through a mysterious, abstract space, towards something alien deep within.

The English language is spoken by 450 million people around the globe, with a further one billion using it as a second language. It is arguably Britain’s most famous export. The man often given credit for the global triumph of English, and the invention of many of our modern words, is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s plays first hit the stage four centuries ago, as the explorers of Elizabethan England were laying the foundations for the British empire. It was this empire that would carry English around the world. Language historian and BBC New Generation Thinker Dr John Gallagher asks whether the real story of how English became a global linguistic superpower is more complex.

Filmed entirely from the air, Upstream follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland, all the way to its source in the Cairngorm mountains, the highest of any river in Britain.

Based on archival interview audio from the 1960's/70's, Children Talking introduces characters such as Hymn Girls, Spaceship Kids and Cheese Pie Boy.

Filmed from the Driver's cab of a class 385 EMU we travel on a ScotRail express from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High, then from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts.

The film is set around a dark, surreal mood and it's ultimately about feeling unease and needing to be pushed to make the right choices.

While traveling to Maramures, Sara comes across Doina who offers her to stay at her place. They both have a glass of wine when they start hearing sounds of people dancing from the forest.

A new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series.

A behind-the-scenes look at the development of The Surge 2 - the story of how Frankfurt-based Deck 13 created its own engine - Fledge - and enhanced/refined it for this new release. It's an in-depth look into a modern rendering engine and the new features added for the game.

Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In 2013, a new deal saw U.S. energy giant Chevron (energy) enter Vaca Muerta, opening the region for the first time to the international oil and gas industry. In collaboration with The Guardian, FA investigated a local Mapuche community's claim that the oil and gas industry has damaged their ancestral land, eroded their traditional ways of life and irreversibly damaged the environment.

The amazing story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock from TV’s Star Trek are all connected by “Sudden Birth”, one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational films ever created.

A documentary that looks at what happens when Slung Low, a theatre company takes over the oldest working men's club in the North of England.

Untitled follows two young men through the streets of London after they reconnect at a party.

In every city in the UK, there's an underbelly of violence and disorder. There's a breed, now, that will shoot you, go home, and play Xbox. As night falls, organised crime groups wage war to control the drugs trade, protect their turf, and carry out revenge. But what is it like being part of this criminal world? Some of the UK's most notorious and violent criminals reveal the truth about gangster life.

An obsession with storytelling and writing, a novelist named Mia gets inspired by a crush a stranger has on her beloved husband, Mark. Mark is affable and Mia decides to bring Freya in between their marriage. Being fascinated with an outcome, Mia gets carried away and imagines her biggest nightmare that possibly becomes a reality.

Tracking the exotic pet trade of otters across the globe, is a story of gangsters and guns, mammals and middlemen.

This oral history documentary tells the story of early pioneering Panjabis who migrated to Southall in the 1950s and 1960s, their journey, settlement & struggles to establish themselves at work, in housing, in business and cultivate cultural activities for their community.

Helen Matthews is a proud Londoner and even prouder mother. Cultured, generous and inclusive, Helen believes in the EU, farmers' markets and the healing powers of a good brew. But above all else, Helen Matthews believes refugees are welcome here...in theory anyway.

Follows Kuenssberg as she travels to Brussels alongside British Prime Minister Theresa May as she navigates her way through attempting to strike a deal with the EU. It will also look at Kuenssberg off camera.

A short documentary about a young girl who leaves home to join a travelling Fun Park in hopes of finding a new family.

This documentary is looking back at the 1993 protests against proposed layoffs at Timex's Camperdown Factory that had run for 47 years.

In Kitchen Beets, Bea Haut presents – with punchily sequential rhythm – an itemised domestic space, placing before her 16mm camera a succession of utensils that speak to the tactility of the artist’s own analogue practice.

A short-tempered man-child is pushed to his emotional limit while chasing a mysterious powerful woman who vandalized his motor. This film deals with themes of a man's aggression and fantasy, and its questionable effect on the world around him. Fast-paced, attention-grabbing and northern. The lyrics and melody to the song "that's alright mama" popularised by Elvis are in the public domain, meaning anyone can record a version.

Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail of Mars, from Rome and Carthage to the present day.

This project is an oral history of London's dock workers focusing on the fascinating history of the people who worked on the docks of London from the 1930s up until the closing of the docks from the 1970s.

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

In the late-night-early-hours of the morning, Gary has an existential crisis; he questions the meaning of life, much to the annoyance of his level-headed partner Meg, who attempts to calm him down.

With an ambitious government and blessed with natural resources and new found markets, many believed that Brazil was set to be one of the most successful countries of the twenty first century. It hasn't turned out like that. Extraordinary corruption, an economic downturn, shocking rates of murder and widespread protests on the streets have led to a series of political crises which have seen governments thrown out and political leaders jailed.

A documentary short film.

Snapshots tells three unique stories through the voyeuristic lens of a photo booth camera. Although their circumstances and motivations are very different, each character shares a desperation that’s led them to their booth: a heartbroken transvestite driven to conforming to societal expectations; two young people compelled to risk everything in the hope of a better life; and a lonesome cleaner who goes to extraordinary lengths to attract the attention he so desperately craves. With the help of the camera each character uses deception in pursuit of happiness, demonstrating that appearances are not always as they seem.

A world first documentary film boasting unparalleled access to defending champion Welshman Geraint Thomas as he competes at the planet's toughest endurance race, the Tour de France.

When a young couple moves into a new house, they discover that they may not be alone.

A biblical interpretation of airline safety instructions.

Some disabled people have no voice or are hard to understand. That doesn't mean they have nothing to say, explains filmmaker Jemima Hughes.

Two wrestlers approach each other to battle for male dominance, but soon the fight descends into something even more animalistic as hyper-masculinity clashes with desire.

A couple in the dire straits of their relationship are forced to attend a first-aid training session.

Considered to be Bec's magnum opus, I'll Be Bec features meticulous writing revealing a complexly crafted dystopian future as well as a remarkable futuristic outfit and an incredible high production finale. We'd hate to spoil it by saying too much, but this special, filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe, is not one to miss.

The Quireboys are 35 Years Young, We join the fans, the press and the band onstage and behind the scenes as they unleash 100% of Pure Gypsy Rock n Roll Live at their Sold out Anniversary show @ 02 Kentish Town Forum, London. A true English heritage Rock Band in it's prime and not looking to stop anytime soon...

A family trip like no other!

A bowling alley, artists, friends, a recording studio, a pregnancy, a baby and universal pop culture, not all necessarily in this order. In Queen, Kathryn Elkin has places, chronology, memories and words clash together. She creates a film of rapid prosody like a bowling bowl thrown at high speed, obliterating the very sense of performance. Written and shot during her own pregnancy and the first months in the life of her child, Queen questions the meaning of this experience for the artist: can being a mother be a performance?

Soprano Ermonela Jaho stars as Violetta Valéry, with Charles Castronovo as her lover Alfredo and Plácido Domingo as Alfredo’s stern father Giorgio Germont, in The Royal Opera’s much-loved production of Verdi’s La traviata. One of the greatest of all operas, La traviata is based on the novel and play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired in turn by the life and death of the real Parisian courtesan, Marie Duplessis. The opera tells the profoundly moving story of a courtesan prepared to sacrifice everything for love, and contains some of Verdi’s most beautiful arias and duets.

A lonely robot finds a blueprint and attempts to build himself a friend.

Five disturbing nightmares, ranging from the eerie to the erotic, guaranteed to keep you awake at night.

Documentary revealing how a murky brown medicine invented in 1886, containing cocaine, became the best-selling soft drink of all time. Cameras are allowed access to the company's gigantic bottling factory in Wakefield. There's also a look through the archive library at Coca-Cola's Atlanta HQ and an interview with the actor who played the Diet Coke hunk in the famous TV advert campaign, discovering his his life was changed for ever.

‘Stella’ is the story of a woman who, when spending Christmas alone, finds friendship in an unlikely place.

Desert Rave, is a film by capturing the one-off electronic music festival Under The Desert Stars, which took place in the Moroccan desert over the last weekend of September 2019.

Shot across 16mm, VHS, DV, and Digital, Breakfast in Kisumu is a personal homage to the 20-year journey of renowned professor and political activist Rok Ajulu. Filmed across six countries between Europe and Africa, with a proxy-archival quality, it follows Rok’s account of his struggles as an exiled freedom fighter of the post-colonial, apartheid era. In conversation with his daughter, he tells of his numerous deportations, prison sentences, and academic career. As Rok recounts the collapse of the apartheid regime, Breakfast in Kisumu shows us a homecoming: his journey back to Africa for the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from a liberation movement into a governing party, his marriage into the Sisulu Family, and the continental significance of 1994.

As Britain's largest nuclear power plant rises from the ground next to his home, 11-year-old Sam cannot stop worrying about what will happen to the fish. A documentary film about holding on and letting go, and growing up.

A lonely boy prepares for his first day of high school

A short tale on the face of masculinity, portrayed by young men who grow up in inner city environments. Where the iconic ‘screwface’ is more than just an expression, it’s a matter of life and death.

"What Does the Water Taste Like?" questions the production of identity as it relates to the filmmaker’s personal affiliations as a British-Nigerian. Prompted by intimate conversations, the film conjoins footage and voices of the past with their counterparts in the present-tense.

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with slow steps, in still images, to two villages he created. Fathy's historically grounded, forward-looking designs prompt us to reflect on the past as well as contemplate new solutions for the future.

A commissioned music video for Emmit Fenn’s instrumental track, Wind.