As Prescribed Detailing multiple cases of the damage wreaked by benzodiazepines, Holly Hardman’s film offers poignant insight into a devastating social crisis. Holly Hardman 2022 Film Programme Film
British Boys Two men in Bahia, Brazil, try to prove their UK ancestry to qualify for a small plot of land in the city’s finest location: the British Cemetery. Marcus Curvelo 2022 Film Programme Film
The Business of Birth Control Once seen as the drug that revolutionised women’s emancipation, the politics of hormonal birth control has a more troubling history, as this film details. Abby Epstein 2021 Film Programme Film
The Family Statement Using messages drawn from a family WhatsApp group, this film constructs a conversation between the billionaire Sackler family and those afflicted by America's opioid crisis. Grace Harper, Kate Stonehill 2022 Film Programme Film
Five Scenes From the War in Afghanistan as They Appear in East Sussex In five powerful scenes, Afghanistan veteran Clement Boland recalls how the cruelty and strangeness of war has followed him back to his idyllic English home. Frank Martin 2021 Film Programme Film
Good Intentions Shot mostly by its protagonist over the course of ten years, this is an intimate and devastating portrait of one man’s struggle with methamphetamine addiction. Andres Villasenor 2021 Film Programme Film
The Great Abandonment Trapped without work, wages or food and facing the world’s strictest lockdown, 140 million migrant labourers begin to leave Mumbai, the city they toiled to build. Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya 2021 Film Programme Film
The Happy Worker – or How Work was Sabotaged John Webster explores how the workplace has transformed to the point where the very idea of productive work appears to be the last thing on people’s minds. John Webster 2022 Film Programme Film
Julie on line Shot over five years, director Mia Ma follows her friend Julie as she tries to reinvent her future and find a way to live with schizophrenia. Mia Ma 2021 Film Programme Film
Letter From Eusapia An Ecuadorian filmmaker investigates Brussels’ subterranean world. Meanwhile, phone conversations with his surgeon father reveal that a deadly pandemic is sweeping both countries. Andrés Cornejo Pinto 2021 Film Programme Film
Man on Earth In this visceral, intensely intimate film, 65-year-old Bob has decided to end his own life after four years of living with Parkinson’s Disease. Amiel Courtin-Wilson 2022 Film Programme Film
Mountains and Heaven in Between An intimate portrait of life in a remote mountain village, seen through the eyes of four paramedics, as the spectre of COVID-19 looms over it. Dmytro Hreshko 2022 Film Programme Film
One Day at a Time Paul Chambers’ uncompromising yet uplifting film looks at the work of a Liverpool-based recovery living centre that uses art and sport to combat addiction. Paul Chambers 2022 Film Programme Film