The Bengali Detective

The secrets of Kolkota’s and London’s Bengali community revealed by overweight dance obsessed intrepid detective Rajesh Ji. Mixing dance and song with the ... read more

The Nature Project (Working Title)

This project was selected from the ‘Power of Nature’ scheme, looking to help to fund and distribute a feature documentary film that examines our ... read more

Swandown

Swandown is a poetic film-diary about encounter and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon. Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedalled a ... read more

Who Is Dayani Cristal?

An anonymous body is discovered in the Arizona desert. 
The only identifying feature is a tattoo reading ‘Dayani Cristal’. 
To unravel the mystery we ... read more

A Whole Lott More

Lott Industries in Ohio, USA employs 1200 workers with developmental disabilities. For decades, the company has built car parts. However, with the decline ... read more

Ping Pong

A Sports Movie about Old Age Pensioners from across the world compete in the World Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia, 2010. Les D’Arcy (UK) ... read more

Town Of Runners

Long-distance running is a way of life in the Arsi region of Ethiopia. In a country well-acquainted with poverty, famine and war, world-beating athletes ... read more

Calvet

The powerful, tortured paintings of French artist Jean Marc Calvet sell from $20,000 a piece, he has major solo exhibitions in New York and yet, until 7 ... read more

Hell & Back Again

The intensely personal story of Sergeant Harris and Marine battalion Echo Company from the start of the 2009 tour of Afghanistan to their return, the ... read more

Up in Smoke - formerly Burning Needs

Slash and burn farming generates more carbon emissions annually than all air and road travel put together. It is one of the biggest contributors to ... read more

Guilty Pleasures

Every four seconds a Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel is sold somewhere in the world. In India, the books give Shumita hope that her straying husband ... read more

Self Made

Self Made is Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing’s debut feature. If you were to play a part in a film, would you be yourself or a fictional ... read more

My Kidnapper

In 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage by Marxist guerrillas while trekking in the Colombian jungle. What had started as an ... read more

The Joneses

Platinum blonde Jheri Jones lives on a remote trailer park in Pearl, Mississippi - the poorest of US States, home to the Ku Klux Klan and heart of the ... read more

Backstory

Co-Production Partners: Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation (London), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Germany), Galerie Serge Le Borgne ... read more

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Journey to the Moon

Journey to the Moon explores an urban myth that in 1957, a group of villagers from Turkey’s remote Black Sea coast were conned by a local politician into ... read more

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H2NY

This twenty seven minute documentary by artist Michael Landy charts his fascination with Jean Tinguely’s 1960 art work Homage to New York, the most ... read more

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Shelter in Place

A compelling portrait of a community living on the fenceline of big industry, touching on issues of civil rights, environmental pollution and their battle ... read more

Erasing David

David Bond has nothing to hide… but does he really have nothing to fear? David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the ... read more

The Yes Men Fix the World

This film is about disasters and risk - the risk that big business is prepared to take with our lives.  Political pranksters, ‘The Yes Men’ have been ... read more

The Madman and the Cathedral

In a small town not far from Madrid, a former monk has spent the last forty years single-handedly building a cathedral. With no planning permission and ... read more

Hackney Fandango

Hackney Fandango is a short documentary charting a day in the life of one dancer in east London through the different dance forms practised in the area.  ... read more

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary

The outrageously talented Jamie Jay Johnson’s debut feature documentary marks the first partnership between the Foundation and the British Film ... read more

Moving to Mars

Moving to Mars tells the story of two families from Burma who travel from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the United ... read more

Stone Pastures

Stone Pastures tells the story of a nomadic family living on the Himalayan plateau of Ladakh. In this high altitude cold desert, the nomads’ way of life ... read more

The Solitary Life of Cranes

The Solitary Life of Cranes takes the viewer on a journey high up in the sky, to look at London’s ever-changing landscape through the eyes and words of ... read more

King of South Shields

In 1977, the boxer Muhammad Ali travelled to the North East of England and was married in a mosque in South Shields. This film examines how this event ... read more

Every Other Friday

Every other Friday for 25 years, Albert O’Conner (Albie) has run a disco at the Barrow-In-Furness Catholic Church Hall for those in the area with mental ... read more

The End of the Line

If we do nothing, the world’s oceans will be empty of fish within our lifetimes. This beautifully-filmed international documentary is a searing ... read more

Drum Room

The empty spaces of an ambiguous building open up to reveal a group of aspiring musicians as they play together, alone. Filmed within a music school, Drum ... read more

Life After the Fall

Life After the Fall is a unique insight into modern day Iraq, eloquently portrayed by Iraqi director Kasim Abid, who returned to his native country ... read more

Chosen

Chosen is testament to the power of a compelling story, simply told. It deals with a subject often whispered but rarely spoken about – the sexual abuse ... read more

Afghan Star

Through the eyes of young, talented and ambitious pop hopefuls all competing to become the next Afghan Star we experience the birth of a new, optimistic ... read more

Tres Pesos

Unfolding in three chapters of rare intimacy and candour, Tres Pesos offers an insight into the everyday lives of young Cuban reggaeton musicians. Living ... read more

Small Town Boy

This wonderful short follows the courageous and isolated young David Birch as he prepares to ride through his small country village as the first ever, gay ... read more

Alive Day

A feature documentary following young US veterans, injured in Iraq, as they take their first steps out of military care and down the Grand Canyon. Given ... read more

We are Together

Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss. It is ... read more

Steal This Film II

Professor and activist Jamie King has become a figurehead for the opposition in the war against file sharing. Steal This Film II explains how and why the ... read more

Living With the Tudors

After 4 years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the ... read more

Here’s Johnny

Here’s Johnny enters the surreal world of famous graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling against Multiple Sclerosis. Living in an increasing ... read more

The Word Was God

Filmmaker and artist Mark Boulos’ short film looks at language, religion, and the ecstasy of prayer: the film contrasts the last village in Syria where ... read more

Talk to Me

In 1985, Mark Craig bought an answer machine. He then kept every message it recorded… for 20 years! Talk To Me is a personal life journey from long-haired ... read more

Specky

A short documentary musing how short-sighted people could have survived the Stone Age. Through a series of experiments involving her specky relatives, the ... read more

Sooner or Later

Using contemporary footage and archived out-takes of Haskell Wexler’s 1969 feature Medium Cool, Sooner or Later takes a lyrical look at the life of the ... read more

Sargy Mann

Sargy Mann is an inspiring story about one artist’s battle to overcome adversity in the shape of blindness, and continue his life’s work and passion, to ... read more

Reunion

Filmed over a Memorial Day Weekend in Buffalo, New York, Reunion is a heartfelt, touching and frequently funny portrait of the very first reunion of an ... read more

Kimmie

Kimmie follows the journey of Liberian child’s rights activist, Kimmie Weeks, 23, as he returns home from exile in the USA for the first time in six ... read more

Heavy Water - A Film for Chernobyl

Based on Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length Poem for Chernobyl; Heavy Water, this film tells the story of the people who dealt with the world’s ... read more

Farewell Song

Since the communist takeover in 1949, China’s orchestras have been controlled and funded by the government. But as market economics returned to the ... read more

Bukom: the Fighting Spirit

The story of a Ghanaian fishing village, with a proud fighting tradition, which has become a Mecca for finding new boxing talent. The film becomes a ‘fish ... read more

How is Your Fish Today?

A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the ... read more

Guca

Guca is the name of a small village in Serbia which for over 40 years has been home to the national trumpet festival. Once a small local affair, it now ... read more

Black Gold

Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry - worth over $80 billion - making coffee the most ... read more

Semangat (Spirit)

In the jungles of Borneo, an Iban father on the cusp of old age begins a river journey to seek help for his sick child. Troubled by uncanny visions, which ... read more

Fatherland

Fatherland tells the story of the filmmaker’s late father’s extraordinary double life pre- and post-Iranian Revolution. The film is set against a huge ... read more

Mass E Bhat

As it continues its own industrial revolution, Bangladesh is, in many ways a perfect example of what we refer to as “a developing nation”. Mass E Bhat ... read more

The Maze

BAFTA award-winning filmmaker and Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie charts the story of the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, from being a shining example ... read more

In Search of the Anti Christ

Filmmaking duo Jamie and Joel attempt to make sense of religion in the US by investigating the Rapture. Little known in the UK, up to one third of the ... read more