Programme A-Z

Co-directors Bartek Dziadosz and Tilda Swinton travel the world to understand what it means to learn, and along the way uncover playful food for thought – for adults and young people alike.

A filmmaker stakes his own safety on gaining access to a US military site in Afghanistan that left billions in military hardware in the hands of the Taliban.

After exploring the relationship between his family and Robert Mugabe, Munya Chawawa casts his net wider to look at the leadership of North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

With wit, intelligence and honesty, the playwright, novelist and filmmaker looks back on his work, the culture it emerged from and recent events that radically changed his life.

An organisation founded by a survivor of the Rwandan genocide employs creativity and art to help children and vulnerable parents, and to prevent history repeating itself.

Trapped in the never-ending horror of prolonged solitary confinement, three prisoners seek comfort and escape in the boundless vistas of their own imaginations.

The stories of five women who survived the horrors of civil war in Sri Lanka are transformed into powerful performance art in this film about justice, memories and hope.

As Russia begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, video artist Roma Liubyi attempts to return home to be with his daughter, wife and parents.

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s portrait of former heavyweight boxing world champion and current Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko is a riveting account of an extraordinary individual and an urgent engagement with one of the most pressing issues of our time.

A group of women, patients in a psychiatric hospital, send letters to one of the institution's former residents, Vincent van Gogh.

LETU is an interactive virtual experience that allows you to visit idealised digital worlds for the LGBTQIA+ communities of East Africa.

In this poignant portrayal of displacement, a young Palestinian filmmaker, stranded in Norway, documents his struggle for residency amid tensions at home.

An Inuit educator navigates the stunning landscapes of Greenland as he seeks to help people in their struggles with mental health.

Emmy award winner Landon Van Soest stuns with a portrait of a blind Anglican priest who becomes one of the first recipients of a bionic eye.

Writer-director Mohamed Subahi documents the citizens' revolt that toppled 30 years of repressive rule in Sudan and the one word that inspired it. 

When a vast Chinese factory complex in rural Ethiopia undertakes ambitious expansion plans, the promises of industrialisation are brought into question.