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  • All-In, a film by Volkan Üce

    In anxious service at the poolside

    LABOUR: A new world of colourful bikinis and intense demands opens up to two shy young men working at an all-inclusive hotel on the Turkish Riviera.

  • Octopus, a film by Karim Kassem

    A Beirut of blown out windows

    BEIRUT: Stillness and rebirth make for a thoughtful testimony to the aftermath of the powerful Beirut explosion.

  • The History of the Civil War, a film by Dziga Vertov

    A new century of war

    CINEMA: Thought lost forever, Dziga Vertov's 1921 archive of the Russian Civil War finally debuts to the public 100 years later.

  • Turn Your Body to the Sun, a film by Aliona van der Horst

    The soldiers who refused to die

    CONFLICT: A Soviet soldier of Tatar descent captured by the Nazis during WWII leads to a story of an army caught between dictators.

  • Procession, a film by Robert Greene

    Faith In performance

    ABUSE: Survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests recreate scenes of ritual power within the church.

  • Le temps perdu, a film by Maria Alvarez

    When one book is always enough

    AGEING:What can a group of retirees engaged in leisurely hours reading Proust have to tell us about the world we live in today?

  • Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam, a film by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

    A mosque shared by all

    ISLAN: Female imam Seyran Ateş believes Islam needs a sexual revolution, resulting in Fatwas, bullets, death threats, and police protection.

  • Babi Yar. Context, a film by Sergei Loznitsa

    Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union

    CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine's German occupation.

  • Walls, a film by Andrei Kutsila

    Next generation dissent

    BELARUS: An insight into the emotions and psychology of Belarusian society, as uncertainty give way to anger.

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