Screenings
UK-Premiere: Circles of Violence
Circles of violence: a return to Sri Lanka is a personal exploration of the island’s dark history, which tries to make sense of the deeper processes beneath the violence.
Screening: War Oratorio
Shot in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Uganda War Oratorio uses the powerful juxtaposition of documentary and music to explore warfare in the 21st Century.
Screening: East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Eight years on from East Timor’s bloody split from Indonesia, one of the world’s youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang violence and disorder as an Australian-led UN force tries desperately to keep the peace.
Screening: The promise: a journey through Afghanistan
‘One of the most moving films I’ve seen for a long time…’ (Andrew Marr)
Journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Afghanistan to find out how life has changed for women in the five years since the invasion by America and its allies and to investigate whether women have been ‘liberated’ as President Bush has claimed.
Screening: Mystery Flights
Mystery Flights pieces together the jigsaw of "extraordinary rendition", the alleged illegal CIA transfer of terror suspects to secret prisons in Europe.
Double-Bill Screening: Unreported World Zimbabwe and Israel
The Frontline Club will be showing Unreported World’s programmes on Israel and Zimbabwe, followed by a discussion on reporting under difficult circumstances, filming undercover and how to get the story in just three weeks time to finish the assigment.
Double-Bill Screening: Women and War
These two documentaries set in Liberia and Columbia look at how war affects women when they are widowed or displaced by conflict.
Screening: Enemies of Happiness
Enemies of Happiness, shortlisted for the International Premiere Award at this year’s One World Media Awards, follows Malalai Joya on the campaign trail in the run-up to the first democratic parliamentary election in Afghanistan for over 30 years.
UK-Premiere: Three Comrades
In this intimate documentary we witness the lives of three lifelong friends whose worlds are torn apart by war in Chechnya’s bloody struggle for independence.
Screening: Darfur – Jihad on Horseback
This powerful documentary, filmed in the refugee camps of Chad and Darfur gives a rare glimpse of the forces that shape the conflict in Darfur with unprecedented access to Janjaweed leaders, the rebel movement and the Sudanese Government.
Screening: Goal Dreams
Goal Dreams is a feature-length documentary about the identity of one of the world’s strangest football teams.
Screening: War Zone Diary
NBC News Senior Middle East Correspondent and Beirut Bureau Chief Richard Engel’s War Zone Diary is a rare and intimate account of the everyday realties of covering the war in Iraq.
UK-Premiere: With or Without Fidel
With or Without Fidel is a ground-breaking documentary that features Cuba’s leading politicians, intellectuals and artists as they debate the future of the island’s 48 year-old revolution.
Preview Screening: Hunting for Hezbollah
In his State of the Union address, George Bush described Hezbollah as one of the most dangerous terrorist organisations in the world. This documentary takes us to the heartland of the Party of God a year after the group claimed a "Divine Victory" in the bloody 33-day conflict with Israel.
UK Sneak Preview: The Big Sell Out
Has privatisation gone too far? Is it dehumanizing millions of people around the world?
Screening: Baghdadi Correspondent
Jawad Khadom was a correspondent working for Al-Arabiya Television in Baghdad when, in a kidnapping attempt, he was shot four times and nearly killed. His life would never be the same again.
UK-Premiere: In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
What began as a case of food poisoning in a London sushi restaurant has escalated into a political spectacle of treachery and intrigue not seen since the end of the Cold War.
Screening: Andijan, a massacre foretold
Combining stunning visual images and political analysis, journalist Michael Andersen takes viewers on a journey spanning the globe to investigate the West’s share of the responsibility for the largest government-sponsored massacre since Tiananmen Square.
UK Premiere: No End in Sight
A chronicle of Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping insider’s tale of incompetence, recklessness and venality.
Screening: God’s Business
Presenter John McCarthy explores religion as business and religion as power as part of Al-Jazeera’s six part series God’s Business.
CANCELLED: Screening: Suffering and Smiling
Focusing on the legendary African singer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his son Femi, Suffering and Smiling depicts the father-and-son struggle to raise awareness about Nigeria.
In it they ask poignantly why the world’s most resource–rich continent has the poorest people.
Screening: Total Denial
Total Denial is the story of a historic lawsuit. Fifteen villagers from the jungles of Burma bring a suit against a giant oil corporation for human-rights abuses, in US courts. After 10 years of fierce legal battles, the impossible happens – they win.
London Premiere: Cry of the Snow Lion
A documentary filmed during nine journeys through Tibet, India and Nepal, Cry of the Snow Lion takes us to the "rooftop of the world."
Feature Screening: The Mark of Cain
When British soldiers, accused of abusing Iraqi detainees, were acquitted last month, it spawned a heated debate whether justice had been served. The Mark of Cain tells the fictional story of two British soldiers caught up in a similar case.
Screening: At Home with Terror Suspects
This is the story of a group of alleged Al-Qaeda operatives who spent years in Belmarsh prison without ever being convicted of a crime. They now live under partial house arrest. To tell their side of the story these men, officially known by letters of the alphabet, were given cameras to make their own video diaries.
UK Sneak Preview: Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore
A provocative and thorough examination of the Michael Moore phenomenon – the man, his movies and his methods.
Screening: Citizen Black
Citizen Black is a portrait of controversial newspaper publisher Conrad Black, now being tried for fraud, obstructing the course of justice and racketeering.
Screening: War of Ideas
From the streets of Beirut to the control rooms of Al-Jazeera and other major Arab news channels, War of Ideas examines the media revolution sweeping the Middle East – and its political impact.
Screening: Statement 710399
In collaboration with the Bosnian Institute
Statement 710399 shows Bosnia 11 years after the end of the 1992-1995 war, where the perpetrators enjoy impunity and privileged positions while the victims struggle to come to terms with their experiences.
Screening: Frontline and The Human Rights Watch Film Festival present: Hot House
Shot inside the Ber Sheba, Ashkelon, Hadarim, and Megiddo prisons, Hot House is a unique, probing documentary-feature that explores the emergence of a Palestinian national leadership within Israeli prisons.