Programme A-Z

On 7 July 2005, terrorist attacks shook London. Twenty years on, this series reveals not just what happened on 7/7, but how and why.

The history of Japan is told through their unique music cafés, where audiophiles meet to listen to the music they love.

Two Japanese indigo dyers embark on an inner journey: one finding his own shade of blue, the other discovering new meaning through his colour blindness.

In this poetic reflection on life’s fleeting beauty, a terminally ill woman finds solace in an unlikely companion – a horse that senses the nearness of death.

In a beauty salon in Beirut, clients of all ages rush in to get their Botox injections, while outside its doors, bombings are intensifying.

Exploring a complex mother-daughter bond, this film traces three generations of Iranian women: a grandmother, mother and daughter.

On the eve of the war in Ukraine, a Russian journalist from pro-Kremlin TV channel brings her rebellious and Westernized teenage daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia.

Award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and cinematographer Artem Ryzhykov transforms into a hardened professional soldier as he navigates the confusion, chaos, heartache and reality of modern warfare.

A powerful account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza.

A researcher discovers the fragmented stories of the first Somali woman in Sheffield. Resurrecting her memory, the film questions whose stories get told and who gets to tell them.

Irish video-artist Myrid Carten's haunting feature debut presents a complex and unflinchingly honest portrait of her relationship with her alcoholic mother.

A daughter uncovers her mother's radical journey from rural South Africa to exile, and how storytelling can become a weapon of resistance and a tool of healing.

A dying man with a wild sense of humour faces death head-on with a sense of curiosity, creativity and absolutely no filter.

In rural North Macedonia, a determined woman begins a quiet revolution. Inheriting her father’s job as a van driver, she opens new possibilities for the women around her.

Luo Fuxing is the ‘godfather’ of Shamate, an alternative Chinese subcultural movement. Two decades into his career he takes on a new challenge: theatre.

In the 1970s, lesbians across the US moved to untamed landscapes to build a world without men. Beyond Eden follows some of the original Land Dykes.

In this entertaining film, rock icon Billy Idol, his family, friends and collaborators reflect on his tumultuous career, personal life and lasting impact on global popular culture.

In a quiet Yucatán village, a boy seeks the truth in a shaman’s tale, entering a cave where myth, childhood and cosmic wonder entwine.

A young filmmaker is determined to know her neighbours in the port town of Folkestone. But in the aftermath of Brexit, building new relationships isn’t easy.

As the world appears increasingly intolerant of ‘outsiders’, an Ecuadorian woman welcoming Venezuelan migrants into her home is a moving reminder of our capacity for warmth and humanity.

The Venezuelan crisis resulted in a mass exodus by its population. This lyrical film focuses on five who have remained, who are burdened with a sense loss and the ghost of a fractured nation.

Liu Liu is living in a strange new land. While his mother looks after the shop, he goes exploring. Encountering a ghost monster, a fierce battle begins.

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi turns satire into resistance, employing humour to expose hard truths about the relationship between Israel and Palestine - where coexistence feels like a bad joke.

A joyful and lyrical love story of two queer poets navigating life, love and mortality in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis.

In this hypnotic cinematic journey through dreams, sleep and the unconscious, science meets myth and ancient rituals illuminate the mysteries of the mind.