Lost Land exposes the painful reality of the Sahrawi people, whose homeland is occupied by Morocco, while they crave independence. At the Open City Documentary Festival on 7th September 2017.
In his film Memory Exercises, Paz Encina hones in on the life of Doctor Agustín Goiburú, one of Paraguay's many 'desaparecidos', piecing together voice recordings – notes of memory – that begin to grapple with the past.
Pump, an absurdist take on the classic road movie, is a film of many questions and few answers. What can it tell us about our relationship with the built environment? At the Open City Documentary Festival on 9th September 2017.
Reading his granddaughter's screenplay seems to reignite embers of 95-year-old Tom’s creativity, nudging him into sharing candid glimpses of his past. At the Open City Documentary Festival on 7th September 2017.
David Bernet’s profoundly European film, Democracy, is that rare thing, a documentary about the complex system that is democracy, and a triumphant democratic law-making process at that.
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) documents the lives of family and friends over the course of the US invasion of Iraq. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 25 June 2016.
Dieter Deswarte’s Saints transports us to a distant corner of the earth: telling a story of the global from the local. At the Open City Documentary Festival on 25 June 2016.
In Limbo glides us through the Internet, as perceived from its insides, from the perspective of the evolving consciousness coming to life within. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 23 June 2016.
Thy Father’s Chair explores the relationship between mental health and domestic disorder. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 23 June 2016.
Activist and filmmaker Chloe Ruthven’s The Occupiers stitches together a compelling insider’s account of the 136-day Occupy London. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 22 June 2016.
In Tadhg O’Sullivan’s beautifuly filmed documentary The Great Wall, the rationale behind ‘fortress Europe’ is interrogated through Kafka’s fable of nation-building, “The Building of the Great Wall of China”. At the Open City Documentary Festival, 21 June 2016.
At the height of the 2011 Occupy protests in London, filmmaker Chloe Ruthven started documenting a world where the normal rules of capitalist individualism had been suspended. At the Open City Documentary Festival on 22 June 2016.
