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Between Revolutions

Between Revolutions

Bittersweet and intimate memoir of two young friends' loyal friendship in the 1970s, told through an exchange of letters between Bucharest and Tehran as the two countries' regimes crumbled at almost the same time.

Vlad Petri / Romania, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / 2023 / 71 min

Bobi Wine: The People's President

Bobi Wine: The People's President

Political activist and pop star Bobi Wine is the young generation's hope for the future in Uganda, where the opposition leader's path to the presidency starts with popular protest songs that go viral in the ghetto.

Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo / United Kingdom / 2022 / 114 min

The Etilaat Roz

The Etilaat Roz

Join the newsroom of Afghanistan's largest newspaper as the Taliban took power. A highly dramatic day-by-day account of a group of courageous journalists' struggle for democracy, freedom and life itself.

Abbas Rezaie / Afghanistan / 2022 / 92 min

Free Money

Free Money

A poor village in Kenya has been selected by an American NGO to take part in the world's largest experiment in citizen pay. Kenyan co-director Sam Soko follows the project sceptically over three years.

Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo / Kenya, United States / 2022 / 75 min

The Grab

The Grab

An investigative journalist exposes foreign powers buying up land under a smokescreen. An alarming docu-thriller about the invisible battle for future resources, from the director of the docu-hit 'Blackfish'.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite / United States / 2022 / 104 min

A Guide to Love and Fighting Capitalism

A Guide to Love and Fighting Capitalism

A deeply sympathetic French sociologist couple specialising in financial inequality realise that it is too early to retire as long as capitalism still rules the world. A poetic, political and very Parisian film.

Basile Carré-Agostini / France / 2022 / 92 min

The Killing of a Journalist

The Killing of a Journalist

Shocking docu-thriller about the murder of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée, which starts a chain reaction that ends up threatening the very top of the Slovak oligarchy. Investigative journalism and nerve-wracking detective film in equal measures.

Matt Sarnecki / Denmark, Czech Republic, United States / 2022 / 100 min

The Oil Machine

The Oil Machine

The great oil adventure of the North Sea is given a historical overhaul in a film about the still-flowing oil that has helped raise living standards for decades and now threatens to collapse the climate.

Emma Davie / United Kingdom / 2022 / 78 min

Polish Prayers

Polish Prayers

A young, ultra-conservative man on the black-clad Catholic right suddenly discovers the colours of the rainbow and starts sawing at the ideological branch he was so securely perched on.

Hanka Nobis / Switzerland, Poland / 2022 / 85 min

Ruthless Times - Songs of Care

Ruthless Times - Songs of Care

Finnish docu-musical about elderly care and its exhausted employees, dosed with black deadpan humour and all the absurdity that comes with economics drumming over care. A true original of a film that sends a warm greeting to the unsung heroes of the everyday.

Susanna Helke / Finland / 2022 / 92 min

Tax Me If You Can

Tax Me If You Can

Fast-paced, entertaining and in-depth financial film about tax fraud which explores where all the money goes – and what we can do to put a plug in the hole.

Yannick Kergoat / France / 2022 / 108 min

Under the Sky of Damascus

Under the Sky of Damascus

A group of young Syrian women gather to perform a play in the country's devastated capital which continues to be haunted by violence – not least against women – in a new film co-directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Talal Derki.

Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh / Denmark, Germany, United States, Syria / 2023 / 90 min

When Spring Came to Bucha

When Spring Came to Bucha

What happens when a chapter in a war comes to an end? Unsentimental account from Ukraine of the existential spring cleaning that awaits when a people return to their city, first besieged and then liberated.

Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz / Ukraine, Germany / 2022 / 66 min

While We Watched

While We Watched

Nerve-wracking newsroom thriller chronicling the decline of Indian journalism, told through the eyes of a tv reporter standing against a rising wave of misinformation and propaganda.  

Vinay Shukla / United Kingdom / 2022 / 92 min