Film Programme

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.

Showcasing the band's expansive cinematic sound, this musical labour of love charts Mogwai's history, from its inception in 1995 to the release of the band's tenth album, 2021's "As the Love Continues".

In Cape Town, a city as breathtakingly beautiful as it is brutal, a young man leads a daring urban revolution at the intersection of political and property power.

A Moroccan filmmaker movingly weaves together the recent past of her family and country through an exquisite reproduction of her local neighbourhood.

The first Nepalese woman to summit and descend Mount Everest, Lhakpa Sherpa devoted her life to empowering girls. Now a single mother working at a Whole Foods in Connecticut, she embarks on a dramatic return to the mountain, determined to redeem her life’s purpose and inspire her own daughters.

Filmmaker Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown in Iran. Inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, she starts her own revolution at home.

Pati's world turns upside down when a stolen laptop results in blackmail, sending her spiralling into the world where anyone’s privacy can be hijacked.

For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland Artsakh is like a paradise, but when war starts again, can he carry a nation’s hopes on his young shoulders?

Charting an unlikely alliance between a Palestinian filmmaker and an Israeli journalist, this is a powerful record of life in occupied Palestine.

In 1622, a group of monks built a fortress around a forest, closing it off to women. Yet when night reigns, the spirit world knows no walls.

In the dead of night, against the enchanting forest backdrop of the Eastern Himalayas, a pair of nocturnal scientists illuminate a hidden, microscale world.

Filmmakers Askold Kurov and Anonymous 1's bold and compelling documentary chronicles the erosion of press freedom in Russia in the run up to, and during, the invasion of Ukraine.

When the ageing, conservative townsfolk of Bethel, Vermont, and the young queer newcomers begin sharing the same watering hole, a delicate allegiance flourishes.

Dreaming of becoming a successful entrepreneur, a cave-dwelling hermit attempts to package his lifestyle as a unique experience to sell to tourists.

On a Portuguese mountain, saintly apparitions and alien encounters interweave with the story of a pregnant cat, in a series of paranormal encounters.

Wanjugu Kimathi is on a mission to find the remains of her father, Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi, and to resettle his comrades, who were displaced by colonialists.

As the Croatian population clamours for the vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, this film presents a portrait that offers some insight into a nation’s collective psyche.

Through language lessons with her mother, a daughter learns more about her Indonesian roots, her mother’s painful journey, and her longing for a place to call home.

A company of volunteer firefighters in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso battle wildfires, and witness political and social turmoil of a more man-made kind.

One woman sets out on a daunting quest to understand just how much plastic has infused our environment, our bodies and our lives.