Screenings
UK Premiere Screening: The Putin System
A year after the murder of renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and coinciding with Vladimir Putin’s 55th birthday, The Putin System takes an in-depth look at the rise of Russia’s controversial president.
NEW Screening: The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl
A nominee in this year’s prestigious Emmy Awards The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl was directed and produced by Ahmed Jamal and Ramesh Sharma, who gained unprecedented access to many of the key figures in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in early 2002.
Screening: The Tea Boy of Gaza
Twelve-year-old Mahmoud has a unique position from which to view the fighting between the Palestinian factions in the Gaza strip. He spends his day selling tea to the patients and staff at Al Shifa, the biggest hospital in the region. Sometimes men buy tea, sometimes they stop Mahmoud getting in, and sometimes they try and kill each other in the hospital car park.
Screening: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A Crude Awakening: The OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning duo Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology.
Screening: The Man Who Became King
The Man Who Became King follows Adongo Agada, a Sudanese refugee living in Canada, who receives unexpected news that he has been designated the new king of the Anyuak tribe in Southern Sudan.
Screening: The Other Side of the Country
The population is the battleground in “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world,” where war continues between rebels and the Ugandan government.
Screening: Flowers Don’t Grow Here
Fifteen years since independence from the former USSR, the Ukraine, Europe’s second largest country, is struggling to regain economic and social stability. Flowers Don’t Grow Here tells the story of some of the estimated 1,000,000 children currently living homeless on Ukraine’s streets.
Screening: A Tabloid is Born
Legendary Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie explores the origins of the redtops at the dawn of the 20th century, beginning with the launch of the Daily Mail in 1896.
Screening: Burden of History – A documentary about Afghan Women
Burden of History explores the position of women in Afghanistan five years after the end of Taliban rule.
Preview Screening: A Mighty Heart
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped in Karachi whilst researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Screening: A Story of People in War and Peace
At a time when Storyville is under threat we celebrate the BBC’s documentary strand on two consecutive days showcasing the world’s most notable independent films made during the last 10 years.
In A Story of People in War and Peace Vardan Hovhannisyan, ex-soldier who shot close-combat footage during the Karabagh War, tries to find the people he shared a trench with twelve years ago.
Matinee Screening: A Company of Soldiers
At a time when Storyville is under threat we celebrate the BBC’s documentary strand on two consecutive days showcasing the world’s most notable independent films made during the last 10 years.
A Company of Soldiers
Tom Roberts spends a month with a US Army division stationed in south Baghdad as they battle insurgents and try to bring peace to this war-ravaged country.
Evening Screening: A Cry from the Grave
At a time when Storyville is under threat we celebrate the BBC’s documentary strand on two consecutive days showcasing the world’s most notable independent films made during the last 10 years.
A Cry from the Grave
Cry from the Grave investigates the massacre in July 1995 of over 7,000 Muslims in and around Srebrenica.
UK-Premiere: Back Home
Back Home is the first film about the Rwandan genocide made by a survivor. It is the true story of J.B. Rutagarama, who was adopted by reporters as he fled the killings and given a new life.
"An inspiring tale of courage and determination" – Tom Brokaw
Screening: Guarding the Queen – The Guards in Afghanistan
For the very first time cameras have been allowed behind the scenes at the royal palaces to see the historic and hidden world of the Grenadier Guards.
Double-Bill Screening: Tunnel Trade and A Midsummer Nights War
Behind the headlines of one year’s Middle East coverage both films ask the important, rather than the obvious, questions.
Tunnel Trade:
The Gaza Strip is more isolated today that it has ever been. Since June 15 virtually nothing crosses the borders of what is effectively one of the world’s largest prisons.
A Midsummer Night’s War:
The summer of 2006 was set to mark Beirut’s return to the international stage after years of civil war, reconstruction and a struggle for stability.
Screening: The Devil Came on Horseback
"An outstanding film. It’s superb, period." – Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
An extraordinarily powerful and original film, The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness.
Frontline’s Iran Screening Season: Execution of a Teenage Girl
Using undercover footage, eyewitness accounts and drama reconstruction, this film tells an unforgettable story of the life and tragic death of an ordinary teenage girl under Iran’s mullahs.
Frontline’s Iran Screening Season: Generation Tehran and Tehran’s Backyard
Teenagers cruising the main drag, the life of Pari, a 65-year-old Iranian cleaning lady, and the story a 16-year old girl facing execution. We present three snapshots of life in Iran on two consecutive days: Generation Tehran, Tehran’s Backyard (1st Part) and Execution of a Teenage Girl (2nd Part on Mon 20 August).
Screening: Broadcast News
A special candlelit screening of an all time great feature film.
We will serve organic oak-smoked salmon with dill pickled cucumbers
Rare roast beef with potato and horseradish salad
butchers ham with sorrel and picallili.
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises.
Screening: The Fundamentalists
In an epic journey spanning five faiths, former Dominican friar Mark Dowd, meets the fundamentalists.
Screening: Democracy Delta Style
As the 2007 national elections are approaching in Nigeria, Al-Jazeera’s Juliana Ruhfus and filmmaker Hazel Chandler travel to the conflict ridden and oil rich Niger Delta to explore what is at stake.
UK- Premiere: The Forgotten Children Of Congo
This powerful and harrowing documentary focuses on the plight of DRC’s children, who are commonly involved in witchcraft, cannibalism and being used as child soldiers.
Screening: Man Dem Nor Glady’O – Sierra Leone
With Sierra Leone’s elections coming up, we look back at the 12-year civil war and question whether peace can really last.
Screening: Crossing the Line
This is the story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector to North Korea, who became a coveted star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the known world. He later found fame acting in North Korean films, typecast as the evil American.
Screening: One World: Turkish Journey
Ahead of the July 22nd parliamentary elections, BBC’s Ben Hammersley travelled across Turkey examining tensions between Ataturk’s secular legacy and Islam in a social media experiment.
UK-Premiere: The Edge of Hope
Ramadan, a 35-year old Palestinian, living in Qalandia refugee-camp, is a camera-operator for Al-Jazeera at the Ramallah office
UK-Premiere: Quiero Vivir
Quiero Vivir is an intimate look at the lives, hopes and struggles of a group of Bolivian street children and their daily fight for survival.
Double-Bill Screening: Forced Repatriation and Wrongful Death
Forced Repatriation:
Forced Repatriation is about 8000 failed Iraqi Kurdish asylum-seekers in the UK facing repatriation to Iraq by the Home Office.
Wrongful Death:
When Karzan Sherabayani’s 75 year old uncle Kakarash was shot dead by 86 American bullets on the streets of Kirkuk he started an investigation that uncovered thousands of similar cases.