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Absence and Lemebel
Absence
(Country: India; Year: 2019; Director: Ekta Mittal)
A lyrical portrait, inspired by Indian poet Shiv Kumasi Batalvi, of the people left behind when men
leave to work in big cities.
UK premiere
Adversarial Feelings
(Country: Italy; Year: 2019; Director: Lorem (Francesco D'Abbraccio))
World premiere
The wild imagination of artificial intelligence.
Chinese Portrait
(Country: China; Year: 2018; Director: Wang Xiaoshuai)
UK premiere
A personal contemporary portrait of a country, a population and a society.
Closing Time
(Country: Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Nicole Vögele; Writer: Nicole Vögele)
UK premiere
Portrait of Taipei.
Earth
(Country: Austria; Year: 2019; Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
UK premiere
Observes people, in mines, quarries and at large construction sites.
The Hottest August and Earth
E-Ticket
(Country: Hong Kong SAR China, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Simon Liu)
UK premiere
From Hong Kong to India, a race through personal archives.
Fordlandia Malaise
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2019; Director: Susana Dias de Sousa)
UK premiere
Postcards depict the colonisation of the Amazon jungle to build Fordlandia, a land of rubber and recklessness.
Hermit
(Country: Russia; Year: 2018; Director: Artem Moskalev)
UK premiere
Study of a self-professed wood goblin, who has lived for more than 20 years deep in the forest.
The Hottest August
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Brett Story)
Seven months after Donald Trump assumes the US presidency, filmmaker Brett Story journeyed to all five boroughs of New York City asking people a simple question: what are your hopes for the future?
UK premiere
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Frank Beauvais; Writer: Frank Beauvais)
UK premiere
The director recounts a personal crisis.
Sunrise With Sea Monsters and Fordlandia Malaise
Lemebel
(Country: Chile, Colombia; Year: 2019; Director: Lissette Orozco, Joanna Reposi; Writer: Manuel Maira, Joanna Reposi)
A multi-layered portrait of one of South America’s most important and most provocative artists, a tireless fighter in dictatorial Chile and an uncomfortable gay activist who spoke out – right up to the end of his life.
UK premiere
The Machine That Kills Bad People: O'er The Land
(Year: 2009; Director: Deborah Stratman)
World premiere
A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: The Sky On Location
(Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: Babette Mangolte)
World premiere
The film attempts to construct a geography of the land from north to south, east to west and season to season, through colors instead of maps.
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
(Country: Lesotho, Qatar; Year: 2019; Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese; Writer: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese)
UK premiere
A farewell letter, a furious lamentation to a mother, a land, a hero, a victim, a martyr.
My First Film
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Zia Anger; Writer: Zia Anger)
European premiere
Autofiction about a director's attempt to make her first film
Chinese Portrait and Hermit
No Data Plan
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2018; Director: Miko Revereza)
UK premiere
In this unusual travelogue, filmmaker Miko Revereza is an unnoticed passenger crossing America on an Amtrak train. Through subtitles, his thoughts dwell on his mother’s difficulties back home.
Past Perfect
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2019; Director: Jorge Jácome; Writer: Jorge Jácome, Pedro Penim)
UK premiere
Consideration of the political implications of nostalgia.
Rushing Green With Horses
(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Ute Aurand)
UK premiere
A collection of moments - private scenes at home and at play with family and friends.
Sunrise With Sea Monsters
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Myles Painter)
World premiere
Follows a wandering desktop hard drive as it journeys through the British landscape in a quest to explore new ways to store and preserve human knowledge.
Westinghouse Three
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson)
International premiere
The film showcases an old consumer product.
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. and Closing Time
While We Are Here
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti)
UK premiere
Lamis and Wilson are migrants in New York. She's a Lebanese that just arrived, and he's a Brazilian that has lived there illegally, for 10 years. This hybrid doc tells their stories
Wittnerchrome Notes I & II
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Nick Collins)
UK premiere
A filmmaker's notebook.
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