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  • The Bengali Detective

    The Bengali Detective

    2011 Director: Philip Cox
    Status: Completed Length: 100 mins

    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)

    The Nature Project (Working Title)

    2013 Director: David Bond (d.) Ashley Jones (p.)
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    2012 Director: Andrew Kotting
    Status: In Production Length:

    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?

    Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    2012 Director: Marc Silver
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    A Whole Lott More

    2012 Director: Victor Buhler
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    Ping Pong

    2012 Director: Hugh Hartford
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    Town Of Runners

    2012 Director: Jerry Rothwell
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    Calvet

    2011 Director: Dominic Allan
    Status: Completed Length: 86 minutes

    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

    Hell & Back Again

    2011 Director: Danfung Dennis
    Status: Completed Length: 88 mins

    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

    Up in Smoke - formerly Burning Needs

    2011 Director: Adam Wakeling
    Status: Completed Length: 70

    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

    Guilty Pleasures

    2010 Director: Julie Moggan
    Status: Completed Length: 86 mins

    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

    2010 Director: Gillian Wearing
    Status: Completed Length: 85

    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

    My Kidnapper

    2010 Director: Mark Henderson, Kate Horne
    Status: Completed Length: 85

    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

    The Joneses

    2009 Director: Moby Longinotto
    Status: Completed Length: 13 mins

    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

    Backstory

    2009 Director: Mark Lewis
    Status: Completed Length: 39

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

    Part of the BRITDOCART scheme - find out more

  • Journey to the Moon

    Journey to the Moon

    2009 Director: Kutlug Ataman
    Status: Completed Length:

    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

    Part of the BRITDOCART scheme - find out more

  • H2NY

    H2NY

    2009 Director: Michael Landy
    Status: Completed Length: 27 (full length version)

    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

    Part of the BRITDOCART scheme - find out more

  • Shelter in Place

    Shelter in Place

    2009 Director: Zed Nelson (director) & Hannah Patterson (producer)
    Status: Completed Length: 48 mins

    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

    Erasing David

    2009 Director: David Bond (d.) Ashley Jones (p.)
    Status: Completed Length: 80

    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

    The Yes Men Fix the World

    2009 Director: Mike Bonnano, Andy Bichlbaum & Kurt Engfehr
    Status: Completed Length: 87

    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

    The Madman and the Cathedral

    2009 Director: James Rogan
    Status: Completed Length: 20

    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

    2009 Director: Tom Hunter
    Status: Completed Length: 11

    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

    Part of the BRITDOCART scheme - find out more

  • Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary

    Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary

    2009 Director: Jamie Jay Johnson
    Status: Completed Length: 89 mins

    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

    2009 Director: Mat Whitecross (d.) and Karen Katz (p.)
    Status: Completed Length: 90

    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

    2008 Director: Donagh Coleman
    Status: Completed Length: 65 mins

    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

    2008 Director: Eva Weber
    Status: Completed Length: 27 mins

    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

    King of South Shields

    2008 Director: Tina Gharavi
    Status: Completed Length: 24 mins

    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

    2008 Director: Sam Hunt
    Status: Completed Length: 8 mins

    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

    The End of the Line

    2008 Director: Rupert Murray
    Status: Completed Length: 85

    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

    Drum Room

    2008 Director: Miranda Pennell
    Status: Completed Length: 15min

    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

    2008 Director: Kasim Abid
    Status: Completed Length: 2hrs 35 mins

    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

    2008 Director: Brian Woods
    Status: Completed Length: 100 mins

    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

    Afghan Star

    2008 Director: Havana Marking
    Status: Completed Length: 87 mins

    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

    Tres Pesos

    2007 Director: Ruth Cross
    Status: Completed Length: 58 mins

    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

    Small Town Boy

    2007 Director: Moby Longinotto
    Status: Completed Length: 23 mins

    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

    Alive Day

    2007 Director: Tom Eldridge
    Status: Completed Length: 72 Mins

    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

    We are Together

    2007 Director: Paul Taylor (d.) and Teddy Leifer (p.)
    Status: Completed Length: 83 mins

    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

    Steal This Film II

    2007 Director: Jamie King
    Status: Completed Length: 60 mins

    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

    Living With the Tudors

    2007 Director: Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope
    Status: Completed Length: 83 mins

    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

    2007 Director: Adam Lavis, Kat Mansoor and Will Hood
    Status: Completed Length: 60 mins

    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

    The Word Was God

    2006 Director: Mark Boulos
    Status: Completed Length: 15 mins

    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

    Talk to Me

    2006 Director: Mark Craig
    Status: Completed Length: 23 mins

    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

    Specky

    2006 Director: Anne-Claire Pilley
    Status: Completed Length: 20 mins

    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

    Sooner or Later

    2006 Director: Paul J Cronin
    Status: Completed Length: 85 mins

    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

    2006 Director: Peter Mann
    Status: Completed Length: 40 mins

    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

    Reunion

    2006 Director: Monica Magyarosy
    Status: Completed Length: 40 mins

    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

    2006 Director: Hazel Chandler
    Status: Completed Length: 88 mins

    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

    Heavy Water - A Film for Chernobyl

    2006 Director: David Bickerstaff & Phil Grabsky
    Status: Completed Length: 56 mins

    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

    Farewell Song

    2006 Director: Arthur and Luther Jones
    Status: Completed Length: 76 mins

    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

    Bukom: the Fighting Spirit

    2006 Director: George Amponsah
    Status: Completed Length: 80 mins

    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?

    How is Your Fish Today?

    2006 Director: Xiaolu Guo
    Status: Completed Length: 83 mins

    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

    2006 Director: Milivoj Ilic
    Status: Completed Length: 71 mins

    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

    Black Gold

    2005 Director: Nick Francis and Marc Francis
    Status: Completed Length: 78

    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)

    Semangat (Spirit)

    Director: Adam Gutch & Chu-Li Shewring
    Status: Completed Length: 44 mins

    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

    Director: Taghi Amirani
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    Mass E Bhat

    Director: Richard York & Hannan Majid
    Status: In Production Length: TBC

    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

    The Maze

    Director: Donovan Wylie
    Status: In Production Length:

    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

    In Search of the Anti Christ

    Director: Jamie Campbell & Joel Wilson
    Status: In Production Length:

    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