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.

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.

Was Tun

Taking a stand against injustice

Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of “what can be done?” He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give in to the injustices in this world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Silent Terror

Life inside Russian-occupied Kherson

In Southern Ukraine, the port city of Kherson was the first major city to fall to Moscow's forces. Held hostage in their own homes, the people of Kherson have endured psychological horrors beyond imagination. Here, sometimes the silence is more frightening than the shelling. Some have escaped but are terrified to relate what they witnessed for fear of their families and relatives left behind. This documentary recounts the harrowing experience of invasion and occupation.

Imad's Childhood

Can a child recover from spending half his life in ISIS captivity?

After two and a half years in captivity, Imad, his little brother Idan and their mother Ghazala are released into a displaced persons' camp in Kurdistan. Healing from the trauma is hard for all of them, but it seems Imad is having a particularly tough time. Not yet five, he has already spent over half his life enduring terror, abuse and "training" meant to make him heartless. Speaking only Arabic, he cannot communicate with his family, and the only means of expression at his disposal is violence. He hits and spits, and his only game is pretending to be an ISIS fighter who shoots, blows things up and kills. This poignant film follows him as he takes hesitant steps on the hard road to recovery, guided and held by his mother, his grandmother and an incredibly supportive therapist.