Faya Dayi (2021)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jessica Beshir
Actors: Biniam Yonas, Destu Ibrahim Mumade, Hashim Abdi, Mohammed Arif, Urji Abrahim Mumade
Country: Ethiopia
Music for Black Pigeons (2023)
Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori…
Filming ‘The Trial’ (1981)
An unfinished 1981 essay-documentary project by Orson Welles, based on a filmed Q&A session at USC following a screening of The Trial, intended as a reflective companion piece to the…
Treasure Island (2018)
A summer on an island of leisure in the Paris region. Land of Adventures, dredge and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for the other. Its pay range…
Black Wax (1983)
Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…
Obesity: The Post Mortem (2016)
Documentary revealing just how dangerous too much fat is to our most vital internal organs. The programme follows a specialist pathology team as they conduct a post-mortem on the body…
Jack McGann: From Cage to Ring (2019)
This documentary focuses on the transition required to switch fight codes with exclusive access to MMA star Jack McGann in the lead up to his boxing debut. Presented by Stephen…
The Memphis Belle (1944)
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven,…
Green Day: Heart Like a Hand Grenade (2015)
More than 10 years after the release of Green Day’s American Idiot, the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees present this time capsule rock doc that takes us…
Marta’s Suitcase (2013)
Marta’s case is particularly significant because it breaks many stereotypes about gender violence. For one she never suffered physical abuse before the attempted murder and she does not come from…
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready…
F for Fake (1973)
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works…