Tim Hetherington Award
Reflecting the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, this award honours outstanding humanitarian storytelling.
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Birds of War
Over thirteen years of revolution, war and exile, a Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist document their love story through text messages, voice notes and footage from the front lines.
  • Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Life Support
A group of international doctors breach the blockade of Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself.
  • Daniele Rugo
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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The Long Cuban Night
Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.
  • Sergio Fernandez Borras
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom
Two families, one photograph. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kim Nguyen unpicks the wartime secrets hidden behind Eddie Adams' infamous Saigon Execution image.
  • Kim Nguyen
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Friends of Black feminist writer, filmmaker and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara come together to share her lessons on art, community and resistance.
  • Louis Massiah, Monica Henriquez
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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