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The Other Side of the Sun
SYRIA: Survivors walk back into the cells that shattered their lives, recounting brutality inside one of Syria’s most feared prisons.
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Tristan Forever
ESCAPE: A piano on a cargo ship opens Tristan Forever, a film about Tristan da Cunha and a doctor’s longing for distance, belonging, and a simpler life.
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Threads of a Revolution
ROJAVA: Ross Domoney and Danny Mitchell spin a short but satisfying documentary about the ideas of 1970s US radical Murray Bookchin as realised in Kurdish Syria.
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A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
RUSSIA: Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova's debut documentary.
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In The Opinion Of The Censor
CONTROL: An eye-opening glimpse into Ireland's history of cinema censorship, where a 1923 law allowing films to be cut, renamed, and banned according to «the opinion of the censor» remains, with amendments, on the Statute Book.
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Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
CIVIL RIGHTS: With a title taken from Langston Hughes' famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman tells the fascinating, little-known story of one of America's first-ever mixed-race protests against the Jim Crow laws of the US South.
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Henden – Requiem for a Photographer
PHOTOGRAPHY: Norwegian war photographer Harald Henden spent his life documenting the stories of others – usually at their hardest moments. Now, he is the story…
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The Dialogue Police
HUMAN RIGHTS: An experiment in protecting democracy and free speech, while maintaining public order, Sweden's Dialogue Police mediate between protestors and regular police to reduce tension in public gatherings.
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Cuba & Alaska
UKRAINE: Laughing in the face of death, the two heroines of journalist-turned-filmmaker Yegor Troyanovsky's debut documentary Cuba & Alaska pitch viewers into the agony and ecstasy of Ukraine's frontlines.