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THREE MOONS OF BIYANGDO is a documentary about three South Korean sisters who harvest from the sea for their livelihoods.

An unveiling of some of the many secrets held by Buckingham Palace.

Archives reveal the impact of the Queen's choice of words.

Rob Rinder takes a unique look at the battle of wits between police and suspects in some of the most disturbing US and UK criminal cases in recent years. A team of experts analyse police interviews and reveal the 'tricks of the trade'.

A lively Christmas morning family Eucharist from Blackburn Cathedral, capturing the wonder of the Nativity journey with a liturgy of music, readings and stories, and featuring the uplifting setting of Bob Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass. The cathedral choir of girls, boys and adult singers leads the congregation in familiar carols, including O Come All Ye Faithful, See Amid the Winter’s Snow, I Saw Three Ships, Ding Dong Merrily on High and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.

Suspected spy John Stonehouse MP faked his death in Miami Beach, and was found alive in Australia. Despite being arrested and charged with fraud, he never faced charges of being in the pay of an enemy power. This documentary explores the peculiar case of John Stonehouse and considers if he really was a spy for the Soviet bloc

Daniel’s not going to the office today. A dying man asked him to deliver a letter, so he’s doing that instead. Though he’s not sure who the dying man was or where the person he’s delivering it to is. Or what, if anything, it has to do with his new neighbours, The Illuminated Brotherhood of the All Seeing Eye.

After leaving home as a teenager, Mohamed made three promises to his mother. The moment he arrived he broke one — and here began his tumultuous coming of age abroad.

Conductor Jules Buckley, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Public Service Broadcasting join forces to perform This New Noise, a world premiere specially commissioned for the BBC's centenary.

A film about spit, tears and austerity. Dating apps, late-stage capitalism and broken hearts. An experiment in immediacy. A salacious piece of gossip.

Existing at the convergence of history and myth, the Haitian maroon leader François Mackandal returns to disrupt the colonial logic of the archive.

A short film that reaches deep into the roots of a singular trans man's experience, opening up the conversation around what we all share rather than focusing on what separates us.

History documentary. Over five thousand years ago in the Tyrolean Alps, a hunter was shot to death in a high mountain pass. His body would be covered by a glacier and preserved until its discovery in 1991. What can this unprecedented level of preservation tell us about not only Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman… but the Copper Age world that he came from?

'Summer' Movietone Peel Sessions 1994-1997. Super 8 film features Movietone tour footage from Sweden, Norway, Holland, Brighton and footage from Bristol and Pembrokeshire 1997/98/99. Song was recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios on 28/01//1996, Maida Vale 3 studio. broadcast on The John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1, 10/02/1996. Kate Wright - Vocals, Piano. Rachel Coe - acoustic guitar. Matt Elliott - electric guitar. Matt Jones - drums. Florence Lovegrove - viola.

In the midst of the Ukraine war, there's an armed unit of anti-fascist football hooligans who are fighting Russia's forces on the frontlines. They're called Hoods Hoods Klan.

A personal protest by P.O.T., a private prayer, a public vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance 2022. There are 331 marks made on the skin: one for each of the 327 trans and gender diverse people reported murdered in 2022, one mark for those whose death went unreported, one for those who lived and died in stealth, one for those posthumously misgendered and a final mark for those who have lost their lives to state violence via suicide and medical neglect. This prayer is repeated annually until the epidemic of transicide ends once and for all.

A small British town is being controlled by a powerful gang. Cedric Coddlebottom investigates and confronts the gang leader, but the outcome is uncertain. Will the truth be exposed and justice served?

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On an uninteresting school trip two students meet in an encounter that could change both of their lives for the better

On an uninteresting school trip two students meet in an interaction that will change each of their lives for the better.

On a quiet afternoon beneath the trees of Hampstead Heath, Fan eats Fei Larm Char Rice (肥腩叉飯), and ponders deeply on what’s missing from the taste of her rice.

Longform VHS music video from British indie rock band Supermilk, comprising various Covid-era home video footage shot by the band and their collaborators.

RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME...WRONG NUMBER. A wrong number from a suicidal Irishman on a remote train platform leads to a trainee vicar saving his life...by mistake. 1 phone call, 2 locations, shot simultaneously in 1 take.

A moving image work and soundscape that incorporates film, sound, and photography. A collection of photos were discovered in 2021 at an antique market in London’s Notting Hill. The striking nature of these images, functioning as a time capsule far from their original context, immediately conveyed to the artist that they depicted a Nigerian Yoruba family from the early 2000s.

A look beyond the hype and headlines at the life of the world's richest man. What's the truth about the Tesla billionaire, space pioneer, and the tech entrepreneur who just bought Twitter?

Overworked council worker Cwnt Jones purchases a personalised A.I assistant to help make his life beta.

THE WORLD CUP IS HERE.

A series of scenes mis-heard between the town and its surrounding landscape unfold, creating an odd dialogue that drifts between the two.

The bigger the cat, the more entitled they are. Lions, tigers, pumas and jaguars are all at the top of the pile across the globe. But beneath them are other cats - big characters that do exceptional things in their shadows. In the Americas it's the bobcat, lynx and ocelot. In Africa it's a host of lesser-known species including caracals, black footed cats and servals.

Lorna Collins experienced a catastrophic brain injury at the age of 18 and spent the next 20 years going in and out of psychiatric hospitals, including the infamous Esquirrol asylum in Paris, subjected to humiliating treatment and assault, before art became her pathway to recovery from crippling anorexia. This film follows her evolution from comatose patient to flourishing artist, taking us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic imagination. Viewers are invited to inhabit and see beyond the stages that define mental illness.

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A short drama film.

A creative trans self-documentary video exploring themes of early transition and gender rebirth using themes of mythology and the sea.

"Chosen" is a short animated film about growing up, acceptance, and the power of faith.

After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.

A documentary about the Brighton-based punk, lesbian, and political activist band Siren, with members now in their 60s and 70s. Siren is an all-women lesbian band and theatre company formed in 1979 at the height of Thatcher’s Britain. They aimed their artistic expression at the twin enemies of the day – Margaret Thatcher’s conservatism and the sexist assumptions that were built deep into the social infrastructure. Influenced by Punk and New Wave music, they forged their own style of songs that had at its core a critique of life under the cloud of the reactionary conservatism of the 1980s in Britain. Siren re-formed as a band in 2014 and continues to compose and perform.

While exploring a Mediterranean island, Burgin came across the rusting remains of a car abandoned in a stand of pines. Based on the photographs and notes he made, he reconstructed the scene in 3D computer space, elaborating upon it through written and visual representations of the associations it prompted. Here, personal memories mingle with a tale from the life of Goethe, an image from a film by Antonioni and the plot of a Handel opera.

Fatigue expressed in an endless sea of content.

A micro-short that uses dance to explore mindfulness, conflicted intentions, and appearances. (SET Film Festival)

The 90min special sees the pair meet Las Vegas's record-breaking headline performer, Wayne Newton, who has played over 30,000 shows in the city. Michael discovers the magic that made Liberace a Las Vegas legend and Alfie tests his cooking skills and takes a night flight down the legendary strip. The special also features incredible performances from the pair that truly sum up the magic that is 'Fabulous Las Vegas'. Michael and Alfie then also perform 'American Trilogy', from their album Together In Vegas, on the same stage that Elvis performed his record-breaking Las Vegas run.

What is the nation's favourite festive film? Simon Callow takes you through a top 25 countdown and reveals the Yuletide number one, as voted for by the public.

A predator is circling his prey but doesn't realise his prey is circling him.

Mike and Susie decide to explore the world of online dating. However, they find out that dating has changed quite a lot, and everything that can go wrong, does go wrong as they have one disasterous date after another.

An experimental stream of consciousness holding the context of memory, narrative and its relationship to visual grammar and film language. Birthing from the universal feeling of being lost in the world, House On Fire is a highly personal and autobiographical exploration in far reaching themes of loneliness, addiction, identity, dysfunctional relationships, parentage, gentrification and the overall vulnerability of the human state in a pure form.

In the 1970s British Railways introduced a series of new EMU designs to replace the many ageing types dating from the early years of Nationalisation. This programme explores these 2nd Generation designs using film taken in recent years plus archive film from the BR era

A lonely figure does a little dance.

West Yorkshire's notorious HMP Wakefield is known in the prison system as 'Monster Mansion.' It's a warehouse for the worst Category A prisoners, and it's home to some of the most terrible men in British criminal history, such as Roy Whiting, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Bronson and Robert Maudsley. Through interviews with ex-inmates, retired guards and relatives of Britain's most infamous inmates, unlocking the cell doors and uncovering the secrets of life inside the UK's toughest jail.

Touching and hopeful immigration film about a grieving Syrian father and his three sons’ quiet struggle not to be deported from Denmark and scattered to all sorts of other countries.

Ysbrydion (Spirits) is a film about the experience of growing up LGBTQ+ in rural Wales. The film was made for screening at the National Eisteddfod, an ancient poetry competition in Wales. While there have been two known LGBT poets to have won the Bardic chair over the centuries of the Eisteddfod, queer people are still not accepted or supported in much of rural Wales. This film tells some of their stories, history, and poetry.

A housewife and teacher named Mary Whitehouse became the original, self-styled `cancel culture' warrior. Armed with just a typewriter, she began a 30-year campaign to turn back the tide of the permissive culture she saw sweeping through society.

In a world where artificial intelligence plays an integral role in everyday life, a young and debt-ridden technophobe chooses to take part in a mysterious social experiment for the much-needed money. However, in order to receive the cash, she must speak live to the entire planet for one minute…

A cat was grabbed by a group of scientists for an experiment. Being unaware of its own interdimensional travel due to the experiment, it explored the surroundings out of its curious feline nature. Schrödinger’s Cat reinterpreted.

The lonely raccoon tries to survive another day in the busy city. When he finally finds some food, his happiness doesn't last long.

Bawa's Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the 'lost' garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa's life and work.

A team sails to the remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen to recreate the 1921 British expedition to summit the world’s northernmost volcano, Mount Beerenberg. They conduct marine science, alongside discovering how climate change is affecting the volcano’s glaciers today.

A collection of poignant conversations between young women and their maternal figures during a transitional period in their lives.