Films
Time to Gather
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
Sofia Bairrão / Portugal / 2023 / International Premiere
To be an Extra
A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.
Henrike Meyer / Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
Trans Hero
Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.
Sol Amanda Wendel & Evo Smilla S. Sidney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
Three years in the life of revolutionary post-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon. Based on extensive research and Fanon's own notes, and reconstructed as a cinematic docufiction from a psychiatric hospital in Algeria.
Turbulence: Jamais Vu
An intimate mixed reality docu-essay exploring the phenomenon of derealisation, inviting audiences to reflect on the fragility of perception.
Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts / Australia / 2023
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet / United Kingdom, Denmark & United States / 2024 / World Premiere
Two Suns + You, My, Omma, Mama + Lichens are the Way
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
SUPERFLEX , Laure Prouvost & Ondřej Vavrečka / Denmark, Marshall Islands, Belgium, France, Austria, Czech Republic & Slovakia
Unbuilt Environments
Utopian and dystopian environments for disabled people, built in Unreal Engine and based on collaboration with disabled-led groups and disabled people in East London.
Alistair Gentry / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Union
The employees at an Amazon warehouse start a union against all odds, but internal divisions and powerful opponents makes the fight for rights and decent conditions a long and hard one.
Brett Story & Stephen Maing / United States / 2024 / International Premiere
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Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta & Shehani Fernando / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
War Game
A nerve-wracking political thriller where elite politicians and military personnel engage in a role-playing game based on January 6th. Is the democratic system strong enough to handle a real-life coup attempt in the near future?
Jesse Moss & Tony Gerber / United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Welcome to the Darkness
The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.
Simon Emmett / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Where Am I From?
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs the director's genealogical journey using two different voices, her own and an AI 'narrator.'
Nouf Aljowaysir / United States & Saudi Arabia / 2022 / Danish Premiere
While the Green Grass Grows
A beautiful and enriching experience from one of the most original voices in documentary filmmaking, who has made his most personal film to date without lowering the philosophical altitude.
Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2023
Wilfred Buck
An elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film that, like its charismatic protagonist, moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation.
Lisa Jackson / Canada / 2024 / World Premiere
Your Fat Friend
A humorous, personal and highly educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic texts and activist Aubrey Gordon, and on six years of lived experience from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom & United States / 2023
Youth (Spring)
China's greatest documentary filmmaker was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for his epic portrayal of life behind the sewing machines in the country's vast textile industry, where young employees flirt, argue and dream of the future.