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The story of the so-called Liberty City Seven, a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up buildings within the USA.

Experimental short film playing with light and how it appears through reflections, lenses, and distortions

A poetic meditation honouring the friendship and creative working relationships between Madelon Hooykaas, Li Yuan-chia (†1994) and Delia Derbyshire (†2001). Inspired by the Japanese concept TEN-CHI-JIN, meaning sky-earth-person, it draws from images, text and sound by the three artists and footage from the Hubble Telescope. Soundtrack by Caro C.

An old widow struggles with some unexpected company on what would've been a quiet Christmas.

The former England and Premier League star lifts the lid on the true scale of the racism problem in British football as he searches for answers and solutions.

A troubled mixed-race 12-year-old queer girl in 80's Harlesden is haunted by the evil white privileged witch Bealzebette. Can she find herself before she is lost forever?

An experimental film that explores loneliness and depression in a brash and colourful way.

A film that reminds us there is no such thing as a neutral perspective and that everyone sees the world through a lens, or mix of lenses.

A meditation on what it means to be/come like all the boys and also what it means to want to be/come like them. It navigates images and ideas of masculinity and trans masculine identity, combining found footage, illustration and personal archive in an act of assemblage that mirrors the erratic and eternal piecing together of a queer identity. The film attempts to trace a story of becoming, the active process of stitching oneself together from a myriad of starting points, whilst also laying bare the moments of conflict and interruption that occurs from this process.

Dhruv has just moved into a new house and been asked to isolate himself. The story tells how he survives with limited food, basic necessities, and a broken phone. The story boasts about his desperation to reach out to his best friend Kabir but all he feels is someone else's presence in the house.

Using Arthur O'Shaughnessy's poem as inspiration, Naomi Waring's film celebrates the confidence, pride and beauty that disco dancing brings to a working-class community in Northern Ireland. Commissioned by BBC as part of the Two Minute Masterpiece Programme.

A masked killer goes after three college students.

Recorded as part of Go Faster Stripe's Artista Comedy Festival in Brighton, this is the first of two shows by Phil Kay. A late-night totally-improvised show by the doyen of the whimsical, unpredictable comedy freestyler.

Documentary about Paul Mason's true story, filmed over 11 years. Charts how he took his life to the extreme, reaching nearly 80 stone as his food addiction got out of control.

A delicious flavour of queer London nightlife through the lens of someone who had their life changed by The Chateau, a (now gone) underground DIY bar, cultural space and performance collective in South East London.

After the break-up of her relationship, Katharine finds herself alone and miserable in the middle of the pandemic. With isolation madness taking hold, she buys herself a companion - a boyfriend pillow. It’s an impulse purchase she may come to regret.

A mindless masked monster enters the town of Rayleigh. The two brave teens challenge the rumours, entering the dark forest at night. What will they find?

A drifting student stumbles across an undiscovered portal to a sinister world.

seven dramatization's of the life of a wanna be skateboarder and filmmaker George, who's trying to get into the right crowd of kids subsequently leaves him dealing with the wrong ones

Two queer people talk intergenerational experience down on England’s south coast.

The documentary team whose original film led to the setting up of the BBC Diana scandal inquiry return with an exclusive inside look at the latest explosive revelations

BinBag shows the mind of a young man who must move on in life after a breakup packing away items and memories into a plastic bin bag and throwing them away.

A short, spoken word, breaking film, reflecting the raw, visceral side of the hip hop-born dance and art form, as well as showcasing the intricate beauty and details in the way that B-Boys and B-Girls move.

After years of prosecuting and torturing innocent women, Hopkins (the self-proclaimed Witch Hunter General) is about to get his just desserts at the hands or rather the magical finger of Winny.

In 1981 Prince Charles married Diana Spencer – but prior to that, he’s rumoured to have romanced at least 20 women and proposed twice. Who were the women who could have been queen?

The most important thing in a relationship is space.

A tribute to the pioneering, visionary film 'A Page of Madness' (1926, Japan, director: Teinosuke Kinugasa), reworked by AI coloring technology, digital processing, and re-cutting. Confinement, madness and love haunt an asylum (of the mind?), where a couple and their daughter become entangled in a troubled past and a complex present, as perceived through layers of moving-image making across almost a century.

A gay couple new to the neighbourhood take revenge on a homophobic shopkeeper. The couple have a history of being Drag Queen vigilantes using there personas as a way to disguise themselves during criminal acts. Now they've settled for a normal middle-class suburban lifestyle they wish to live a happy life together but there past can't help but haunt them, for the better.

A look into a young Somali woman who is having difficulties speaking her mother tongue. Her father narrates the story Cigaal and the Lion Stump with the hope to persuade her to never give up on her Somali heritage.

Henry is forced to stay with his passionless great-uncle and slips into a fantastical world where he meets Raygo, an elf-like hunter who reveals that all he needs to restore his uncle's imagination is a single drop of blood from a hideous beast that enjoys sucking people's brains out of their eye sockets.

You can't choose what you remember

Retrospect follows a day in the life of JJ, a young man plagued by loneliness, as he looks back on his past and the actions that led him to where he is today.

A poetry piece about life & death set in gothic Whitby.

A beautiful panoramic vision, questioning our perception of the passage of time and the figures we conjure in our dreamlike states. Between sleep and wakefulness, it merges fragments of memories, dreams and reality into a composite liminal zone.

Marcus Brigstocke, taking on the role of Lucifer, regales his audience with his views on moments in history and the modern world, interacting with the audience and trying to ensure his make-up doesn't run.

A musical, contemporary retelling of the Don Juan story only this time in a non-binary world.

The modern prefabricated house construction makes it possible: foundation, walls, roof - and all that within 48 hours. Every fifth building owner nowadays opts for the simple "let build" method. The industry is booming and produces its own four walls on an assembly line. In our documentary, the reporters follow the path of the raw material from the log to the prefabricated house ready for occupancy and show the challenges that builders and planners can sometimes encounter.

This film follows Charlie Craggs, trans activist and author, as she meets teenagers across the country who have been waiting years for a first appointment at an NHS gender identity clinic. Charlie explores what some feel they have to do to start their own transitions and meets young trans people who are choosing to take matters into their own hands and going down the dangerous route of using unregulated medications and starting their transitions themselves.

A student, Sean, learns about the death of his Aunt over lockdown. Forced to be alone he has to face his troubled relationship with his Aunt.

The rain clears up, rays of sunshine peak through, and flowers start to bloom. Spring – it has arrived, and it is beautiful. Spring is a time for new beginnings, and after a particularly harsh winter in lockdown, spring offers a new hopeful outlook on life. This documentary explores the journey from the dreadful winter into the freedom of spring. While finding joy in the little things, we start to embrace the new life not only affiliated with the season of spring, but also our new beginnings as a society.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" "Who am I, really?" "What is love?" Dorian Gray, the secret child of love and death is suddenly thrust into a confusing world. A world where love dare not speak its name, yet everybody is searching for it. On his search Dorian comes across the many mirrors of his soul. The dangerous and charismatic Lord Henry casts him into a hedonistic lifestyle; Sibyl Vane sees him as the Romantic lead and Lady Henry merely wants to prey on him. But it is the gentle society painter, Basil Hallward, who shows him as he truly is. On his quest to find his true identity, Dorian must decide if it is better to be loved or to be feared. When Dorian realises the painting is, in fact, a portrait of his conscience, he is horrified to see the level of corruption depicted on the canvas and decides to try to reverse time. "I would give anything for that - I would give my soul!" But is it too late?

Adapted from the original monologues of Alan Bennett, this two-part filmed drama deals with themes of isolation, power relations and the trials of domesticity.

Mind (FULL) is an experimental pastel-animated short which explores how meditation can take the mind from a state of chaos to calmness.

There’s lots of instruments everywhere. And there’s a guy and he looks a lot like the guy in the last film, who was definitely not me. So perhaps this definitely is not me. Then there’s a girl. Who’s definitely not the same girl as last time. Or maybe she is? Then there’s a motorbike for some reason and lots of words and some narration.

Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.

A frenetic, poetic line animation of bell-jars, eyeballs and red exclamation marks punctuated by an inaudible, gobbling narrative. Rowland’s film ‘writhes upon inspection’ – a fast, furious insight into personal anxieties and the spectacle of being looked at.

Two people are determined to continue a relationship despite having to distance themselves in dramatic fashion. Is this happening in a time long ago, or is it in a future which has been forced to ‘re-set’? ‘Waves’ is a love story, a commentary on technology and social interaction, and a need for the human touch.

The building of a house we will never live in – a house for our ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide.

Europe's fastest and highest wooden roller coaster is located in the Heide Park Resort in Soltau. The amusement park has been characterized by the 60 meter high ride since 2001. With a top speed of almost 110 kilometers per hour, “Colossos” was a real crowd puller, with around 20 million guests traveling in 15 years. The restoration began in 2016. New wood, new rails, new technology - the report accompanies the extensive renovation of Germany's most popular wooden roller coaster.

F E R A L – (adj) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication – a year-long project by circus artist and writer Daisy Black and her Mind Reader turned Film Maker partner Alex McAleer of Gossamer Thread Circus. A series of 4 short films shot over 2021 across the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, (as well as fine art prints) . The project explores a reconnection with the land, marking these pivotal moments of the year and drawing on folklore that has anchored us to these natural processes throughout history. And also the act of rewilding, ecological processes and the intersection of art and activism. During the months of lockdown many of us have experienced the myriad health benefits of engaging with nature, and this in turn has highlighted the natural catastrophes we are now facing. Made on location at Ken Hill Re-Wilding site, Norfolk, UK

garden rain on a summers day

Matt attends group therapy to open up about being raped.

Documentary about the life and legacy of Picture Post, the revolutionary magazine which shaped perceptions of British life during and after the Second World War.

Anchored to the heart of the King’s Cross redevelopment in London, the film takes the viewpoint of an arbitrary surveillance camera to trace the many flows of a privately-managed but public-facing square.

On the North East Coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously derelict Bayview hotel into a place of respite for international fishermen when they come to land. This film is a glimpse into this unlikely home and the transient guests who pass through it.

Currently a primary focus for environmental campaigners in the UK, HS2 is a controversial new high-speed rail line being built from London to the North of England. Documenting a single day on the front line of battles against the HS2 construction, The Battle of Denham Ford tells the story of attempts by HS2 contractors to fell a tree that overhung their compound. A protest camp sits adjacent to the compound, and, hearing of the plan, the activists installed a climber in the tree. As the day unfolds, the film documents as a range of private security contractors, with support from the police and emergency services, try to regain possession of the tree. Raising questions about the relationship between private citizens, corporations, and the state, the film places the viewer on the ground, offering a perspective that is as close to the experience of being there as any film could deliver. – Sheffield Doc/Fest

John Sweeney murdered and dismembered the bodies of two ex-girlfriends before dumping them in canals in London and Rotterdam in 1990 and 1992. This programme examines the police investigation that finally brought him to justice after evading capture for years, and reveals how John Sweeney was ultimately undone by his own hand.

Germany’s infrastructure is falling apart. Countless buildings, bridges and roads are crumbling and need to be torn down. These demolition experts have a true giant at their side. Our documentary accompanies the men of Bavarian demolition teams as they live out what is probably every little boy's greatest dream.