Good Films
Goodfilm.org has curated over 150 fantastic films, at all stages of production from development to completion. The filmmaking teams want to hear from you about potential partnerships and collaborations. Just click on an image to find out more about the film, watch a trailer and get in touch with the director.
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Not In Our Town III: Light In the Darkness
"Not In Our Town III: Light in the Darkness" PBS documentary, produced by The Working Group, and the accomp...
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$H*T!
$H*T! follows radical solutions that turn human waste into green energy. It opens up possibilities for whole new and ...
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25 to Life
William Brawner was infected with HIV before he turned two and kept it a secret for over twenty years. Now he struggl...
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350=Survival
Climate change is already displacing countries, exacerbating human rights abuses, and killing hundreds of thousands o...
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A Small Act
A Kenyan boy's life is dramatically changed when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, ...
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A Very Dangerous Man
Are 'psychopaths' beyond rehabilitation? One man's work with Britain's most dangerous prisoners s...
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A Whole Lott More
Lott Industries in Ohio, USA employs 1200 workers with developmental disabilities. For decades, the company has built...
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A World Without Water
The world is running out of water
All of us will face it soon,
some of us are facing it now. -
ABC
Vele is 17 years old and all she wants is to learn how to read and write - to keep up with her seven year old daughte...
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Above Enemy Lines
An intimate portrait of a British helicopter squadron in Afghanistan during the hot Summer of 2007
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Addicted in Afghanistan
In a country devastated by the horrors of war & poverty what hope is there for its children?
Addicted in Afghani...
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Afghan Star
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, millions are watching the music TV talent show Afghan Star. People from acros...
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Afghanistan: The General's War
Behind the scenes of the war in Afghanistan with General David Richards, commander of NATO in Kabul.
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Africa10
The game of soccer is transforming Africa in fascinating and powerful ways. Africa10, a documentary film and a multim...
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After the Apocalypse
Exposing the legacy of the largest, most secretive and most sustained nuclear experiment in history and the thousands...
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is an intimate portrait of an international art star during two tumultuous years of his life. ...
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Amandla! a revolution in four part harmony
AMANDLA: A REVOLUTION IN FOUR-PART HISTORY tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role ...
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American Village
Baltimore, 1972: a father of thirteen is murdered. Three boys are arrested, represented by a famous civil rights atto...
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An American Promise
In 1999, two African American boys begin kindergarten at a prestigious college prep school. Their parents have high h...
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Anatomy of Poverty
Anatomy of Poverty (working title) follows several characters in order to explore the impact and progress of foreign ...
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Anderson Monarchs Soccer Club
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Aparte (Aside)
Carina(21), is a mulatto girl, who recently became a prostitute, following the footsteps of their mother. She has a...
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Bad Boy
19 year old Natty leaves prison at a crossroads in his life. Can his girlfriend Sian persuade him to turn his back o...
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Banking On Change
Two-thirds of India’s population of a billion people live in the nation’s 600,000 villages. Despite India’s economic ...
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Barefoot Revolution
Noujaim Films presents Barefoot Revolution, an intimate cinema verite film which follows the life-changing journey of...
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Battle Hospital
A graphic portrait of life inside a British field hospital during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict
A visceral account of the life and death of a heroin addict, made from the extraordinary video tapes he left behind.
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BRIGADA
The film follows the members of a unit of the police force designated to eradicate against domestic violence in Bolivia.
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Britain's Challenging Children
This film follows life inside 5 UK primary schools to uncover the enormous challenges faced by teachers dealing with ...
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Brooklyn Castle
Amidst financial crisis and unprecedented public school budget cuts Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York has...
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Budrus has a Hammer
Ayed Morrar, an unlikely community organizer, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save hi...
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Bulgaria's Abandoned Children
In the hills of rural Bulgaria lies Mogilino, a small village whose main employer is the children's Social Care ...
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Busting Out
Busting Out is a provocative, funny and bittersweet look at the history and politics of breast obsession in America. ...
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Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle
Cape Wind: The Fight for the Future of Power in America is a feature length documentary about the high-stakes battle ...
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Casablanca Calling
In Morocco, the world's first female Muslim leaders are setting out to change their country: empowering women th...
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China's Stolen Children
Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very differen...
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Chosen
Chosen is testament to the power of a compelling story, simply told. The film deals with a subject often whispered bu...
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Clowns
A film about four very different men trying to make a living as childrens' entertainers.
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Cooked
In 1995, the City of Chicago suffered the deadliest heat wave in U.S. history. 739 people died over the course of a s...
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Crime After Crime
Crime After Crime is the exclusive documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler from prison two decades aft...
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Dancing with Hugo Boss
Dancing with Hugo Boss is a feature documentary that will take a personal look at the importance of life, love and mo...
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Dawn of a New Day
Three West Africans, including a ten-year-old boy with a disfigured leg, are in need of specialized surgery but are w...
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Dear Mandela
Three young South African shack dwellers resist mass eviction from their slums while leading a new generation who fol...
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Democrats
Democrats is a film about the creation of a new constitution in Zimbabwe.
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DETROPIA
Can Motor City rise from its ashes? Americans hope so, as there is a growing feeling that as Detroit goes, so goes th...
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Devil's Lair
More than 3000 prisoners are released back into society every month. Many become the bone and marrow of the illicit d...
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Dirty Money
A compelling and unique perspective on the world, work and environmental value of informal street recyclers in Johann...
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DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE: 80 mins 16mm
This film is set in the Family Law Courts in central Tehran. Our three ...
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Dragonslayer
Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featur...
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Drawn from Water
Living in almost total isolation in some of the planets harshest conditions, southern Ethiopian tribes possess a trad...
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DREAM GIRLS
This film is about the Takarazuka revue, an enormously successful theatre where the all-women cast create fantasies o...
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Droughts, Debts, and a Death
200,000 farmers in the last ten years have committed suicide due to increasing crop failure and debt. Our media team...
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Eat The Kimono
A brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spen...
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Erasing David
David leaves his pregnant wife and young daughter. Two ruthless PI?s are tracking him down. They close in and David b...
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Escape from Luanda
In Luanda, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola's only music sc...
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Faith & Fear: The Children of Krishna
This Emmy-award winning documentary details the widespread abuse of children born into the North American Hare Krishn...
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Fifteen
A series of films about being 15, shot around a comprehensive school in Stockwell, South London. Ying searches for th...
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Fish Fight Europe
In January 2011, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fronted a highly successful TV and online campaign, which exposed the ma...
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Five Ways Out of a Favela
Four kids: Five ways out. Will they make it?
In the slums of Rio around 6000 children are working in the drug trade. ... -
Gideon's Army
Gideon’s Army is the story of new public defenders working in the South. With long hours, low pay and staggering case...
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Give Up Tomorrow
After languishing for 12 years on death row in a Philippine prison, Paco Larranaga finds hope when the international ...
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God Loves Uganda
In a journey that spans two continents, African-American director Roger Williams, son of a Baptist minister, explores...
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Granito
A documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as a crucial player in a present-day case ag...
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Green China Rising
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Green Shall Overcome
Green Shall Overcome is a 90-minute documentary about Van Jones, the controversial environmental activist. Jones has...
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Guardian's of Uganda's Gentle Giants
Following the tradition of Dian Fossey, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (vet) has for the past 15 years, been the guardian...
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Guardians of Uganda's Gentle Giants
Following in the tradition of the legendary Fossey, Ugandan Vet and conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has been b...
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Heavy Load
Heavy Load are Lewes’ answer to the Ramones, a punk band subject to the usual inflammatory mix of ego, fantasy, and d...
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Here's Johnny
Here's Johnny enters the surreal world of famous graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling against Multi...
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Hidden Faces
Originally intended as a film about writer Nawal el Saadawi, Hidden Faces develops into a fascinating portrayal of Eg...
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High Tech, Low Life
Two of China"s first and most daring citizen reporters challenge the status quo by reporting on censored news st...
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HOLD ME TIGHT LET ME GO
For the 40 children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour,...
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House Clearers
A film about inheritance, old age and what happens to your possessions when you die. Set in a junk shop in Prestatyn.
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How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
A manuscript in a suitcase lead me to my great-grandfather's vodka factory in deepest Ukraine. The village in wh...
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How To Survive A Plague
Using never-before-seen archival footage, How to Survive a Plague is the intense story of how AIDS
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Hungry In America
America is one of the world’s wealthiest nations. Yet we remain the only country in the developed world where million...
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I Just Want To Play Violin
Three young people from three different continents are fighting for one thing - winning the world‘s most acclaimed vi...
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In The Land Of The Free
Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola,...
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Inocente
In America today, one in fifty kids is homeless. For most of us, they are invisible. The documentary feature Inocente...
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Invisible War
The Invisible War is an investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic
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Island President
His nation of 1,200 low-lying islands is sinking as sea levels rise. The Island President tells the story of Presiden...
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It's In Your Hands
Short film piece which highlights a simple solution to some very big problems
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Jenin: imagining and accepting alternatives
The Film follows a range of Welsh Artists who will visit the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, they will run workshops and wo...
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Justice for Sale
Justice for Sale; “when the system fails, everyone is a victim”
Justice for Sale follows a young, courageous human...
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Kimberley
An intimate portrait of the directors friend, as she fights her family's long-term poverty and emotional problem...
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Kimmie
A feature length documentary about 23 year old Liberian child rights activist, Kimmie Weeks, and his return journey h...
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Land Mines: Threatening Security in Karen State
Since 2004 the number of people falling victim to land mines in conflict-ridden areas has risen. In ethnic minority c...
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Life After The Fall
This film is an intimate epic of life and change in Baghdad over the past 5 years. It is the story of my large Baghda...
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Life in Transit
An evocative and thought-provoking look at how cities shape our experiences, dreams and outlooks on life; LIFE IN TRA...
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LITTLE HEAVEN
The story of a 13 years old HIV children in a small orphanage in Ethiopia.
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Mario and Nini
Filmed over seven years, this moving film tells the story of two boys growing up on London's streets.
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Marrying a Stranger
A pair of films about young British Pakistanis having modern arranged marriages. In film one Shabba marries his mum&#...
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Mass e Bhat
A portrait of a developing nation through the eyes of its working children. The nature of development, poverty, child...
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McLibel
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in hi...
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Men from Atlantis
Determined to shift their reputation as a community of rapists, drug dealers and lost causes, twelve ordinary guys fr...
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Monica & David
MONICA & DAVID explores the marriage of two adults with Down syndrome and the family who strives to support their...
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Moving to Mars
Moving to Mars tells the story of two families: exiled from Burma, and now heading for a new life in the UK. After f...
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Moving Windmills
In 2001, William Kamkwamba dropped out of school due to a devastating famine. Through self-education, he saw a windmi...
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My Kidnapper
In 2003 Mark Henderson was kidnapped and held hostage in the Colombian jungle for 101 days. One year after his relea...
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My New Home
A five year documentary series following three immigrant children settling in Britain. Marshal has moved from Zimbabw...
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Network
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New Muslim Cool
Chosen as the Opening Night Feature of the 2009 season of P.O.V. and winner of the Freedom Award at its first public ...
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Not In Our Town III: Light In The Darkness
NOT IN OUR TOWN III: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS follows a community in crisis after the fatal attack of a local immigran... -
Not On the Label
The story of the cocaine trade and the war against it - a war that cannot be won and whose victims are the poor, the ...
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Ntsika
In Grahamstown, South Africa, people are talking - is a white principal going to cope in a township school? This docu...
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Oil & Water
Oil & Water is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hug...
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On the Streets
On the Streets is an observational documentary about homeless people shot over eight months. Rough sleepers, from Pau...
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Only When I Dance
‘Only When I Dance’ is a real life Billy Elliot story set in the Favela's of Rio, following the fortunes of two ...
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OUR SCHOOL
Three Roma children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to desegregate the local school, struggl...
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Out in the Silence
Out in the Silence is more than a movie; it's part of the growing movement for justice and equality in rural and...
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PAZ Y PAZ: INSIDE THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
The fight of Guatemala’s first women Attorney- General against impunity.
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Pig Business
The film is my four journey to discover who pays the real cost of 'cheap' meat. Shot in Poland and the USA ...
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Ping Pong
Pensioners from across the planet compete in the World over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. 8 playe...
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PLANEAT
Our health, our environment, the future of the planet: all threatened by our love affair with meat and dairy. Scienti...
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Presumed Guilty
“Presumed Guilty” is the story of a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Mexico City, late...
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Reportero
A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an embattled news weekly challenge the drug cartels and corrupt local offici...
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RETURN TO THE OUTSIDE
Return To The Outside follows three men in their first months outside prison as they navigate the pitfalls of parole ...
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Roaming Survival
Roaming Survival is a character-driven documentary that follows the relocation of some of the world’s frontline clima...
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Rough Aunties
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stan...
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RUNAWAY
RUNAWAY 35mm 87 mins
This film is set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of 5 girls who com...
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Sargy Mann
Sargy Mann is an inspiring story about one artist’s battle to overcome adversity in the shape of blindness, and conti...
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Saving Africa's Witch Children
In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and...
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SAVING FACE
A documentary on acid attacks (mainly against women) in Pakistan.
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Saving Simia
This is a film about the Rangers of the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda, East Africa - people who risk their lives...
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Scallies
This film is about kids on the streets of Liverpool. They live their lives separately from the rest of society in a ...
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Seventeen
Seventeen is a feature-length film that will remember every teenager to fall victim to violent death in one year in t...
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Shamans - Healing our World
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Shinjuku Boys
A film about love and gender
This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women w...
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SISTERS IN LAW
Six year old Manka has run away from home, fleeing her abusive aunt. Sonita has daringly accused her neighbour of ra...
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Smalltown Boy
David is the first ever gay male carnival queen in his small village. His brave stand makes a film of coming of age,...
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Spies of Mississippi
Spies of Mississippi tells the little known story of the domestic spy agency established by the State of Mississippi ...
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Split Estate
Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill ...
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Startup.com
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to c...
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State of Fear
State of Fear takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a "global war on terro...
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STEAL THIS FILM
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property released via P2P networks. It...
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Steel Homes
A poetic exploration of memory and loss, ‘Steel Homes’ takes the viewer inside the world of a self storage warehouse,...
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Storage Dreams
Set in the birthplace of self storage, Storage Dreams is a film about lives being literally up for sale, giving us a ...
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Stripped
Four three-minute films looking at life in and around lap-dancing and strip pubs. At a time when campaign groups are ...
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The Age of Stupid
'The Age Of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer...
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The Bengali Detective
The secrets of Kolkota’s and London’s Bengali community revealed by overweight dance obsessed intrepid detective Raje...
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The Boy Mir
Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR will cover not one year but ...
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The Bully Project
Over 5 million American kids will be bullied this year making it the most common form of violence young people in the...
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The Corporal's Diary
Jonathan Santos, 22, documented his 37 days in Iraq on video and in writing; never knowing that day 38 would be his l...
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The Crippendales
Lee Kemp dreams of becoming a stripper. Runner up in ‘The Sexiest Man in Yorkshire Competition’, wheelchair-user Lee ...
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The Curse Of Gold
You can reject blood diamonds but you can't avoid dirty gold. This is the story of one man's crusade to rev...
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THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET
This film takes you into different Kenyan communities and explores the tradition of circumcision and also love, marri...
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The Dream of Shahrazad
Exploring the legacy of the 1001 Nights amidst huge political changes sweeping the Maghreb and Middle East, we meet a...
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The End of the Line
The End of the Line, tells the story of the devastating impact which over fishing is having on our oceans. Unless we ...
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The English Surgeon
What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity?
Shot in a Ukrainian ho...
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The Flaw
What caused the great American financial meltdown of 2007/8, an event whose consequences will continue to be felt all...
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The Games
In 2012 the Olympic Games will come to London. With it, come promises of regeneration, opportunities for young peopl...
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The Good Pitch
The Good Pitch is a unique opportunity for a selected group of filmmakers to pitch both their film and its associated...
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The Great Relativity Show
Explaining the Theory of Relativity in four short parts:
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The House That Herman Built
"What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream o...
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The Hunger Season
A new feature documentary on the food crisis gripping the planet. This film asks why, in spite of the Millennium Goal...
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The Interrupters
THE INTERRUPTERS chronicles the cycle of violence over a year period in Chicago. Our prism is a group of men and wom...
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The Intimacy of Strangers
You used to have to make an effort to overhear other people's conversations, now you have to make an effort not ...
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The Luckiest Nut in the World
An animated documentary about world trade staring a singing peanut.
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The Market Maker
Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charaismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-pl...
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The Middle Kingdom Ride
Canadian brothers, Ryan & Colin Pyle, spend 65 days riding motorcycles around China. They've made a document...
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The Nature Project (Working Title)
Filmmaker David Bond grew up in the countryside but now lives in the city. He is stuck in the digital world. During a...
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The Next Harvest
Africa produces 10% less food than it did in 1960. During that same period, the population has tripled. Following the...
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The Reckoning
Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities around the world, more than 120 countries united to...
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The Revolutionary Optimists
Children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Using dance and street theater, Amlan Ganguly empowers children t...
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The Solitary Life of Cranes
Part city symphony part visual poem, ‘The Solitary Life of Cranes’ explores the invisible life of a city, its pattern...
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The Special Need
Enea is 28 years old, he is autistic. He never had a sexual intercourse with anybody although he really wants to and ...
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The Tea Boy of Gaza
Award-winning film about 12 year old Mahmoud, who struggles to survive in the maelstrom of Gaza City's main hosp...
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The Top Banana
The Top Banana is a fast paced, funny, and entertaining feature documentary about the world’s most important fruit – ...
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THE TRIAL
The trial of neo-Nazi serial murdering taking place in Hungary where the extreme right-wing party is second in Parlia...
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The Truth Will Set You Free
The story of a man whose two defining passions are in great conflict: his love for God and his love for his partner M...
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The Yes Men Fix the World
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infilt...
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Tit for Tat
This is a feature length documentary about street harassment. Three women, sick of being harassed set up hidden camer...
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To Be Heard
To Be Heard is the story of 3 high-school students who find their way into a radical poetry workshop in the South Bro...
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To Hell and Back Again
The intensely personal story of Sergeant Harris and Marine battalion Echo Company from the start of the 2009 tour of ...
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Town of Runners
Many of the world’s greatest runners hail from Bekoji, a small town in rural Ethiopia. Town of Runners follows a grou...
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Trailer Tales (Working Title)
This film is shot on an all white trailer park in Mississippi. The different characters show a way of life of workin...
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TRANS X ISTANBUL
A transgender woman from Istanbul, fights against the hate violence against her companions.
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Turkey Creek
Turkey Creek tells the story of a group of determined Mississippians who struggle to save their
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Unreasonable TV
This series documents the intimate, challenging, and innovative experience of the Unreasonable Institute. 10 episodes...
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Untitled Global Health Documentary
Partners In Health is a remarkable global public health organization, insisting on quality health care as a basic rig...
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Up in Smoke
British scientist, Mike Hands, has found a solution that could stop and reverse slash and burn farming in the tropics...
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Vanishing of the Bees
Bees are dying across the planet, this film explores the mystery of why now and why on such a large scale. Filmed ove...
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Voytek the Soldier Bear
This is the story of Voytek The Soldier Bear - a magnificent 500lb military bear who fought in World War Two alongsid...
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WAGAH
Each night the only bordercrossing between India and Pakistan on a 3000km stretch becomes the sight of an extraordina...
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We Are Many
The story of the biggest peace march in human history. On 15 February 2003, in over 800 cities around the world, 30 m...
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We Are Together
Filmed over three years, WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye) tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children...
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We the People
UAE 2010: 17 Indians are given the death penalty for murdering 1 Pakistani. Further investigation reveals 1,785 more ...
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What's Going On?
The Burgers and the Johnsons are rival gangs who have been killing each other in a postcode war in Birmingham for fif...
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Who Is Dayani Cristal?
An anonymous body is discovered in the Arizona desert. The only identifying feature is a tattoo reading 'Dayani ...
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