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The Mother Of All Lies and Flipside
Boil Alert
(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2023; Director: James Burns, Stevie Salas; Writer: James Burns; Stars: Jessica Matten, Autumn Peltier, Santee Smith, Layla Staats, Michelle Thrush)
Activist Layla Staats shows the faces and personal stories behind the struggle of First Nations reserves to access a basic human right: drinkable water.
Bye Bye Tiberias (Bye Bye Tibériade)
(Country: Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France; Year: 2023; Director: Lina Soualem; Writer: Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous, Gladys Joujou; Stars: Hiam Abbass)
Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
The Contestant
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Clair Titley; Writer: Clair Titley; Stars: Tomoaki Hamatsu, Toshio Tsuchiya)
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Copa 71
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay; Writer: James Erskine, Victoria Gregory, Rachel Ramsay; Stars: Brandi Chastain, Alex Morgan, Jose Palma)
Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women's Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history - until now.
Defiant
(Country: US, Ukraine, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Karim Amer; Stars: Dmytro Kuleba, Mykhailo Fedorov, Rustem Umerov, Iryna Andriivna Vereshchuk)
This documentary offers unique access to Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other key figures in the administration who are fighting to save their country against Russia's invasion by combatting disinformation.
The Contestant and In The Rearview
Flipside
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Wilcha; Writer: Joe Beshenkovsky, Adam Samuel Goldman, Christopher Wilcha)
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis
God Is A Woman (Dieu Est Une femme)
(Country: France, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Andres Peyrot)
Documentary about the Kuna people focusing on a film that was supposed to be made about them in the Seventies.
Homecoming (Máhccan)
(Country: Finland, Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Suvi West, Anssi Kömi; Writer: Suvi West)
A personal story about the return of Sámi artefacts — long held in a museum — to their homeland.
In The Rearview (Skąd dokąd)
(Country: Poland, France, Ukraine; Year: 2023; Director: Maciek Hamela)
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
I Am Sirat
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Deepa Mehta, Sirat Taneja; Stars: Sirat Taneja)
A documentary about a trans woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.
Copa 71 and Defiant
Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
(Country: France, US; Year: 2023; Director: Frederick Wiseman)
A behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
The Mother Of All Lies
(Country: Morocco, France, Qatar; Year: 2023; Director: Asmae El Moudir)
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lucy Walker; Stars: Lhakpa Sherpa)
A single mother working as a dishwasher has another life as a record-breaking mountain climber and the first Nepali woman ever to reach the summit of Everest.
Mr. Dressup: The Magic Of Make-Believe
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Robert McCallum; Writer: Robert McCallum, Jordan Christopher Morris; Stars: Michael J Fox, Graham Greene, Eric McCormack, Paul Sun-hyung Lee, Scott Thompson)
A documentary about the iconic television show from Canada which impacted multiple generations across its 39 year presence on television and its ongoing legacy.
The Pigeon Tunnel
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Errol Morris; Stars: John le Carré, Douglas Rankine)
This documentary spans six decades as le Carré gives his final and most personal interview, interrupted with rare archival footage and dramatic anecdotes. It is set against the stormy Cold War backdrop that extends into the present day.
Sorry/Not Sorry and Boil Alert
Silver Dollar Road
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: Raoul Peck)
A Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.
Songs Of Earth (Fedrelandet)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Margreth Olin; Writer: Margreth Olin; Stars: Jørgen Mykle)
Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
Sorry/Not Sorry
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Caroline Suh, Cara Mones; Stars: Jen Kirkman, Megan Koester)
A re-examination of the case of Louis CK, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, exploring his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.
Stamped From The Beginning
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Roger Ross Williams; Writer: Mara Brock Akil, Ibram X Kendi; Stars: Alexa Rachelle Jennings, John Gazzale)
An exploration of the roots and evolution of racist concepts in the US.
Summer Qamp
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Jennifer Markowitz)
At a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience.
Homecoming and God Is A Woman
Viva Varda!
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Pierre-Henri Gibert; Stars: Agnès Varda)
Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. For the first time ever, this documentary provides a counter-shot through interviews and previously unseen archives materials.
Walls
(Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Kasia Smutniak; Stars: Kasia Smutniak)
The actor turned filmmaker visits Poland's banned red zone to shed light on her home nation's border restrictions and the refugee situation in the European Union
The World Is Family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakan)
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Anand Patwardhan)
A documentary portrait of the director's parents, whose families were intertwined with Gandhi and India’s independence movement.
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