Film Programme

In the Georgian town where Josef Stalin was born, two women become embroiled in an inter-generational struggle over their conflicting interpretations of a contested history.

Iranian superstar Googoosh, who was subject to decades of persecution at home, recounts her extraordinary 50-year career as a singer, actress and activist.

Habibullah Zandi has been singing for decades, but as a local mullah tries to silence his song, he proves that music and poetry can also be sacred.

An iconic singer's life, music and lyrics are deeply intertwined with the struggle for freedom in a country known as Africa's last colony.

Troubled Eastender Hak Baker's life takes an unexpected turn after he wins a guitar in a prison raffle.

The fascinating story of Cimarons, the first UK band to embrace the thrilling new sound coming out of Jamaica.

A cinematic love letter to the Moviola film editing machine, led by Academy Award winning editor Walter Murch, detailing how it dominated English-language filmmaking for most of the 20th century.

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.

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