Film Programme

In 2023, as China gradually lifts its COVID-19 restrictions, a female pharmacist navigates the desolate city in this pivotal post-pandemic moment.

In this jaw-dropping exposé, filmed by inmates, corruption, violence and resistance is rife inside one of America's deadliest prison systems.

This intimate journey about self-acceptance follows Ricardo, a 24-year-old man born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, who has struggled to pronounce the letter R since birth.

A mysterious fish, rumoured to be three metres long, swims behind a dam. Tingo is obsessed with catching this shadowy creature and proving everyone wrong.

The set-up might sound like a reality game show, but Violet Du Feng’s portrait of three Chinese bachelors seeking a relationship is also a startling account of gender imbalance.

A daughter reflects on her South Asian father’s life, his never-ending pursuit of the American dream, and the human capacity to love and survive.

Kim A. Snyder’s urgent film shows how librarians in the US have become unexpected freedom fighters – battling censorship and political extremism to defend the right to read.

Racing around the globe alone for 300 days, 16 sailors test their physical and emotional limits in the world's longest and most daring sporting challenge.

A gripping documentary uncovering the 14-year struggle behind Panama’s reclaiming of its canal and the legacy still shaping global power and national identity.

A minor neighbourhood spat in Florida escalates over two years, with tragic consequences for a closeknit community and exposing America’s deep-rooted race issues and gun culture.

Born in the heart of heavy stars, cobalt mineral is extracted and joins a rising chorus of resistance against dehumanisation in this hybrid AI documentary.

Like many intersex people, Jim underwent medical interventions early in life. This film traces the fraudulent research that justified such treatment.

This striking archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.

A courageous whistleblower prompts an investigation into the true history behind one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.

A singer's identity – and voice – transform in this raw and musical journey through gender transition, loss and self-discovery.

An archival excavation of Paraguay’s dictatorship, one of modern history’s longest, reveals how authoritarian control was built and how its ghost still haunts the present.

In this powerful film, the Venezuelan migration crisis that led to violent anti-immigration protests in Northern Chile shines a light on dangerous social and cultural fissures within a society.

After fleeing the Vietnam war, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, along with 100 other refugees, are enlisted as background extras for Apocalypse Now.

A young welder confronts her fractured past to protect her sister, forging a future from sacrifice, resilience and the spark of second chances.

Challenging the dominant histories of Scotland, this tender work invites us to listen to the landscape — hearing echoes of the marginalised voices we have been made to forget.

In this powerful and inspiring film, an Afghan filmmaker documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of females in her family.

In this love story and urgent call to action, an Indigenous couple risk everything to defend the Amazon and their unborn child’s future.