Screenings
Screening: Daylight Robbery – What Happened To The $23billion?
“They were the quintessential war profiteers – they made money out of chaos”
In Daylight Robbery, Jane Corbin investigates claims that as much as $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.
This film is innovative in its approach to the subject using graphics, edits and techniques not usually associated with TV documentaries.
Sneak Preview Screening: The Age of Stupid FULLY BOOKED
"The Age Of Stupid" is the new cinema documentary from the Director of "McLibel" and the Producer of the Oscar-winning "One Day In September".
NEW Sneak Preview Screening: Life After the Fall
Life After The Fall is a unique insight into modern day Iraq, eloquently portrayed by Iraqi director Kasim Abid, who returned to his native country shortly after the fall of Saddam following an absence of 30 years. Shot over five years, this film shows the director reuniting with his family in 2003.
Preview Screening: This is Our Country Too FULLY BOOKED
Most of us have very little knowledge about the plight of Australia’s Aboriginal people. Take away Cathy Freeman, the odd advertising campaign and the occasional adventure programme, and to the mainstream they do not exist. This is Our Country Too is a powerful expose of the hidden torment of a people fighting for equality, justice and survival.
NEW Screening: Premiere – How to Make a Difference in Africa FULLY BOOKED
African journalist and film maker Sorious Samura spends a month exploring whether there is an alternative to the top-down aid industry operating on the African continent.The result is a documentary film that impacts not only on the local area, but on Africa as a whole.
Preview Screening: Recycle
What makes a terrorist? Jordanian filmmaker Mahmoud Al Massad returns to Zarqa, his home town and the birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi the brutal leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in this stunningly acclaimed documentary that charts the daily life of a religious man in one of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.
Preview Screening: Taxi to the Dark Side FULLY BOOKED
Awarded Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars, Taxi to the Dark Side is a gripping investigation into the shocking mistreatment of United States’ prisoners of War held in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. It is directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who also made the Oscar nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Screening: Living Goddess – Nepal
Living Goddess is an intricate piece of film making about child Gods and violent revolutions in Nepal, especially poignant now as Nepal has declared itself a Republic and has given its king 14 days to vacate his Palace.
Screening: Colombia – Promises and Bullets
Colombia is a country embroiled in a violent and bloody civil war, but what are the roots of this conflict and who should be held accountable? The media and the government state that guerrilla groups, particularly the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are responsible for the violence and its social and economic costs. ‘Colombia : Promises and Bullets’ charts the history of Colombia ‘s war, from its humble origins to one of the most protracted and violent conflicts Latin America has ever seen.
Preview Screening and Discussion: Russia – A Journey, with Jonathan Dimbleby FULLY BOOKED
To coincide with the landmark BBC series, Frontline Club presents a unique opportunity to preview Episode Four and hear the people behind the programme talk about the challenges of undertaking such a big project.
Screening: In Prison My Whole Life
In Prison My Whole Life follows 25-year-old William Francome’s investigation into the arrest of Mumia Abu Jamal, famed death-row prisoner and award-winning Black Panther journalist.
Congo Season Double Bill Screening: The UN in Congo
As part of Frontline’s Congo Season, we present two reports that focus on the role that the UN plays in the DRC and discuss with the filmmakers whether its mission is still a valid one.
The UN’s Dirty War (Unreported World)
Unreported World travels to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, and uncovers evidence that UN troops are supporting Congolese government forces even as they carry out indiscriminate attacks, sometimes against civilian targets.
Mission Impossible (BBC Panorama)
The UN polices conflicts around the world. But is it up to policing itself? Documents leaked to a joint Panorama/BBC World Service investigation reveal why the UN’s department tasked with rooting out corruption has been called a "combat zone" and found not fit for purpose.
Congo Season Screening: The Greatest Silence – Rape in the Congo
In the DRC there are tens of thousands of women who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. The world knows nothing of these women. Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in silence. In The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo these brave women finally speak.
NEW Screening: India’s Missing Girls
In the summer of 2007 a farmer in southern India found a two-day old baby girl who had been buried alive. Rushed to the local hospital, she miraculously survived. But in today’s India, many other baby girls are not so lucky…
Screening: The Last Jew of Babylon with Inigo Gilmore
Journalist and filmmaker Inigo Gilmore is renowned for reporting from the world’s trouble spots and getting into trouble along the way. This evening he presents his half hour documentary, The Last Jew of Babylon and talks about his most recent work in the field.
CANCELLED Screening: The Age of Terror – War on the West
A sneak preview of the final episode from award-winning journalist Peter Taylor’s investigation into terror acts of the last 30 years. In the final programme, Taylor tells the story of Osama Bin Laden’s declaration of war on the West.
Feature Film Screening: Extraordinary Rendition
Starring Andy Serkis, Omar Berdouni and Ania Sowini
A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture.
NEW Screening: Undercover in Tibet
As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, this investigation reports on the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation after spending three months undercover, deep inside the region.
Screening: Jihad – The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda: FULLY BOOKED
A stunning television history of modern, radical, Islamic groups, the ideas and beliefs that inspire them and the challenge they present to governments in the Middle East and the West, from Emmy award-winning filmmakers William Cran and Clive Sydall.
London Premiere Screening: Kabul Transit
Kabul Transit rejects the usual device of narration and portraiture and asks the viewer to experience Kabul as a newly arrived visitor would by shuttling through the broken streets of the city, moving between public space and private, listening in on conversations, posing questions and probing the darker alleys the mainstream media avoids.
Screening: The Brooklyn Connection – How to Build a Guerilla Army
How do you tell a freedom fighter from a terrorist? If you met Florin Krasniqi in his Brooklyn neighbourhood, you wouldn’t likely think he was either. After hearing his story, you would certainly know he was one or the other – but which one?
Screening: Meeting Resistance
Meeting Resistance raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle, and documenting, for the first time, the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation’s citizens when their homeland is occupied.
Screening: Who Am I?
What happens when you discover that your father isn’t your father? What if you learn the man you thought was your father actually killed your biological parents? During the “so-called” dirty war in Argentina (1976-1983), the military dictatorship there abducted some 30,000 people. Some were young women, pregnant or with small children.
Screening: Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise
Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise is a moving story about life inside the home, minds and hearts of 3 generations of Chinese living under one roof in the old city of Shanghai, who are suddenly confronted by the imminent demolition of their home.
Preview Screening: The Iraq War by Numbers with Rageh Omaar – FULLY BOOKED
Five years on from the invasion of Iraq, Rageh Omaar returns to the country on a personal journey to meet the people who inspired his coverage of the dramatic events.
Sneak Preview Screening: The Battle for Haditha – FULLY BOOKED
‘There are many ways to see the same story’
Documentarian Nick Broomfield’s third fictional feature is a forensic cinema verité-style account of a real-life massacre in Iraq, when US marines gunned down 24 Iraqi civilians in cold blood.
Double Bill Screening – Lebanon: Deadly Playground and Ashura: Blood and Beauty
Ashura: Blood and Beauty
The 1,300 year-old festival of Ashura is celebrated by Shia Muslims with the shedding of blood to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein. But for the youths of one town in South Lebanon it’s a chance to fraternise with the opposite sex away from the prying eyes of elder family members.
Deadly Playground
In the village of Sadikkeen in South Lebanon there remain an estimated one million unexploded cluster bomblets, dropped by the Israeli forces at the end of their war with Hezbollah in 2006.
Screening and discussion: Unreported World – Egypt’s Rubbish People
This startling film exposes a dark side to Egypt that the authorities don’t want foreigners to see. Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon went to a Cairo ghetto to film a secretive society of around 40,000 people who literally live in rubbish, overrun by rats and disease.
Screening: Diamonds and Justice – A Dictator in the Dock
The charge sheet in the trial of one of the world’s most notorious warlords reads like a manual of terror: amputations, rape, the use of child soldiers, pillage. Diamonds and Justice asks the question: ‘what could possibly be ex-Liberian leader and warlord, Charles Taylor’s defence?’
Screening: No Plan, No Peace
How did the US and British governments come to invade Iraq with no post-war plan? And how did they get just about everything wrong in their assumptions about what would follow? These are the issues explored by John Ware in No Plan, No Peace as he talks to some of the key figures in both administrations.
