Tantura

What really happened in Tantura?

Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated amid the formation of the state of Israel. To Israelis, this was the War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Al Nakba' - the Catastrophe. In the 90s, research into a massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948, was dismissed. Now, director Alon Schwarz revisits former Israeli soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade as well as Palestinian residents in an effort to re-examine what happened in Tantura, and why 'Al Nakba' is still a taboo in Israeli society.

Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution

Myanmar's forgotten fight for democracy

More than 20,000 people are reported dead, air strikes are hitting towns and villages, artillery is pummelling positions of armed resistance – but this is not Ukraine, this is the world’s forgotten civil war, where thousands of twenty-somethings are risking death to fight against a military coup that has removed elected government and stolen what they see as their future.

F@ck This Job

The rise and fall of Russia's most rebellious TV channel

Moscow, 2008. Meet Natasha Sindeyeva, 35: a confident woman originally from Michurinsk and now the brand new wife of a successful banker. One day, she decides to launch an independent news TV station. F@ck This Job follows Natasha and Dozhd from its birth to the days that perhaps foreshadowed its death.

Off the Rails

Growing up isn't an easy journey...

Rikke Brewer and best friend Aiden Knox hone their spectacular UrbEx stunts and gravity-defying Parkour skills, hoping that millions of likes on social media will be their ticket out of boring Guildford. But the trauma of a close friend's death triggers darker stories, of broken families and fragile mental health, threatening to send them both off the rails.

Only I Can Hear

The story of CODA - Children of Deaf Adults

In the American Midwest, three hearing teenagers come of age in the vibrant, raucous Deaf community. In search of a home between two disparate worlds, the young women explore their unique identity as CODA — Children of Deaf Adults, as they strive to fit into both the deaf and hearing communities to which they belong.

This Stained Dawn

Standing up for women's rights in Pakistan

Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right, and negotiating a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is not just about the march, but about the act of political organising itself.

The Axe in the Rainforest

The relentless destruction of the Amazon rainforest

Despite the imminent climate crisis, the overexploitation of the Amazon rainforest continues. Brazilian President Bolsonaro's policies promote loggers and mining corporations; deforestation, fires - all threaten the lungs of the world, with the urgent cries from the indigenous population and environmentalists that the Amazon must be preserved at all costs falling on deaf ears.

Good Old Czechs

The Odyssean story of Czechoslovak airmen fighting across war torn Europe

A unique poetic form of archive storytelling, with never before seen footage, telling the Odyssean story of Czechoslovak airmen fighting the Nazis across France, Britain, the Middle East, Russia, Poland and Slovakia. The bittersweet return to their homeland, initially as heroes before persecution at the hands of the communists.

Lady Buds

It's all about the females

When California legalized marijuana, six women emerged from the shadows of the cannabis underground, and into the light of a legalized market. But with major corporations and heavy-handed regulations to reckon with, these trailblazing women must risk everything in order to claim their own piece of the American dream in the market they helped to create.