Celebrating the best in factual film from around the globe.
Alone In Four Walls and Encounters At The End Of The World
1000 Journals
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Andrea Kreuzhage)
Looking at a project considered to be the 21st century equivalent of a message in a bottle.
Bi the Way
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker; Writer: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker; Stars: Austin Head, J. Michael Bailey, Jennifer Bamgardner, David Barasch, Jonathan Caouette, Josh Caouette, Paula Caplan, David Chapman, Meridith Chibers, Lisa Diamond)
Exploration of the "bisexual revolution".
Burma All Inclusive
(Country: Austria; Year: 2007; Director: Roland Wehap)
Lifting the lid on how glossy tourism to the country masks underlying corruption.
Cafe De Los Maestros
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Miguel Kohan; Writer: Miguel Kohan, Gustavo Santaolalla)
A celebratory film about the maestros of tango.
Pageant and Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Crawford
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: David Modigliani)
Documentary charting the effect George W Bush had when he bought a ranch in a small Texas town.
The Dancing Forest
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Brice Lainé)
A powerfully optimistic vision of Africa as epitomised by the people of Togo.
Faceless
(Country: UK, Austria; Year: 2007; Director: Manu Luksch; Writer: Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel; Stars: Aadam K. Ahmed, Manu Luksch, William Trevitt)
Using only images obtained from the operators of CCTV video-surveillance systems in London – as stated in the rules of the “Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers” – Luksch transforms London using oppressively familiar views into a nightmarish stage.
God Made Them Blind
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Richard Todd)
Story of John Fawcett, an Australian ceramicist who devoted his life to helping cataract sufferers in Indonesia.
Cafe De Los Maestros and sleep furiously
Jump!
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Helen Hood Scheer; Writer: Scott B. Morgan, Helen Hood Scheer)
Documentary follows five jump-rope teams around the US.
The New 10 Commandments
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nick Higgins, Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jones)
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Celebration the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declarations of Human Rights interpreted through the prism of Scotland today.
The New Ten Commandments
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bi )
Filmmakers mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Pageant
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern)
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An in-depth look at drag queens in preparation for the Miss Gay America.
Running The Sahara
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Moll; Stars: Matt Damon, Charlie Engle, Kevin Lin, Ray Zahab)
Documenting three men's quest to run across the desert.
She Should Have Gone To The Moon
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Ulrike Kubatta; Writer: Ulrike Kubatta; Stars: Ulrike Kubatta, Jerri Truhill)
The story of Jerri Truhill who, in 1961, became one of the first women secretly trained by NASA to go into space.
sleep furiously
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Gideon Koppel)
Rural Wales faces change from all sides as the population ages.
Weltstadt
(Country: Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Christian Klandt; Writer: Christian Klandt; Stars: Hendrik Arnst, Florian Bartholomäi, Justus Carriere, Franziska Krumwiede, Karoline Schuch, Jürgen Verch, Henrike von Kuick, Gerdy Zint)
Exploration of how two drunken teenagers came to beat up a homeless man and set him on fire.
Where the Water Meets the Sky
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: David Eberts; Writer: Jordan Roberts; Stars: Morgan Freeman)
Women of Zambia speak out on Aids. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell
(Year: 2008)
Portrait of the famous cellist.
