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Attack of the 50ft Reels
Various / Various / 90 mins
Witness the results of an exciting filmmaking collaboration between ‘The Attack of the 50 Foot Reels’ and Doc/Fest, where we’ll be screening for the first time Super 8 films made by a select few of you, and screened without editing. Look out - the 50 foot reels are comin’ to get you!
BFI Presents Coal & Steel - Images of Industry
Various / UK
‘This Working Life’ is a 3 year BFI project exploring our industrial heritage on screen, highlighting some remarkable material drawn from the BFI National Archive’s documentary collections. The heyday of heavy industry has gone but the legacy remains in these powerful images.
Bob
Rosie Potter / UK / 25 mins
Proud nudist. Staunch Communist. Sensitive gardener. Anarchist senior citizen. Bob is the Werner Herzog of next door neighbours. Bob gives us some of the most hilarious imagery and memorable dialogue seen in student documentary this year.
Centenary - The BP Story
Nigel William / UK / 84 mins
BP is one hundred years old in 2009. ‘Centenary’ traces the complex history of the company through the troubles and triumphs of the twentieth century, through the testimony of past and present workers from the company.
Cultural Revolution II
Tian Ai Zhang / UK / 27 mins
A fascinating portrait of the new Chinese hero: the Capitalist. He is full of contractions even in his ambitions and these ambitions are of interest to us all.
Erasing David
David Bond & Ashley Jones / UK / 80 mins / World Premiere
Concerned about just how much information government and businesses are collecting about him, filmmaker David Bond decides to escape for a month, and lets private investigators track him using whatever information they can find in the public domain.
Far From Gone
Barney Broomfield / UK, Zambia / 40 mins / EU Premiere
An intimate portrayal of two Congolese refugees, Stephen and Boniface, who find themselves in a desolate refugee camp in Zambia after narrowly escaping from their war-torn country.
Men of the City
Marc Isaacs / UK / 70 mins
Marc Isaacs’ film is set in the current financial crisis and explores the human cost of life in the dog eat dog world of London’s Square Mile.
Moving to Mars: A Million Miles from Burma
Mat Whitecross / UK / 84 mins / World Premiere / Opening Night film
Thaw Htoo and his family lived in a Thai refugee camp after escaping the brutal Burmese regime. Until the day they were relocated to Sheffield, a town that may as well be a million miles away home. Like thousands of migrants, the family must come to terms with a new life while keeping their ethnicity and sanity intact.
Playmakers
Ivo Gormley / UK / 35 mins / World Premiere
Over the last 50 years play has become an increasingly private activity. Now it is bursting back onto our streets. ‘Playmakers’ explores the emerging area of pervasive games: it explores the implications of reclaiming play into the public domain and shows the possibilities offered by new technologies.
Rough Aunties
Kim Longinotto / UK / 103 mins
In Durban, South Africa, a group of feisty women are working day and night to protect the area’s many abused and neglected children. Watch them at work through the remarkable observational lens of one of Britain’s most acclaimed doc makers, Kim Longinotto.
Sergio
Greg Barker / UK, USA / 94 mins
Before he was killed in an attack on the UN HQ in Iraq, Sergio Veira de Mello is described as a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy. An unforgettable story, de Mello Charmed war criminals, despots and peasants alike. But his intentions were only to give the repressed back their dignity.
Serial Bride
Brian Hill / UK / 75 mins / World Premiere
Emily Horne has been married five times, but she’s never bothered to get divorced. She’s worked in the porn industry and as an “escort,” and she’s already served one jail sentence for bigamy. But behind the stuff of headlines is a darker tale of mental illness, addiction and neglect.
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
Jez Lewis / UK / 90 mins
Once seen as a utopia, the northern town of Hebdon Bridge now bears one of the highest suicide rates in Europe. Filmmaker and ex-resident Jez Lewis returns to find out what went wrong in a compelling portrait of addiction and redemption.
The Execution of Gary Glitter
Rob Coldstream / UK / 76 mins / World Premiere
Set in a parallel Britain where the death penalty has been re-introduced following overwhelming public pressure, this extraordinary and innovative court-room drama-doc explores whether capital punishment has a place in modern society.
The Fall of a Shah
Maziar Bahari / UK / 94 mins
Screened in honour of Maziar Bahari who is still imprisoned in Iran by the government, ‘The Fall Of A Shah’ traces the tumultuous history of the Iran’s last Shah and his fall from power.
The Ferryman
Alexandra Mattholie / UK / 23 mins / World Premiere
He tracks these still waters as his father did before him. For hundreds of years a regular ferry service has kept the people on a Devon river connected to the rest of the country. Through a series of chance encounters and vignettes, the ferryman reveals his story that belies the humble character and tradition of the region.
The Force
Patrick Forbes / UK / 76 mins
When a body is found, the forensics’ department of the Metropolitan Police are locked in a race against time to find a killer. This is CSI without glory.
The Great Flood
Marcelo de Oliveira / UK / 6 mins / World Premiere
The Kawesqar people of Patagonia believed their world was created after a catastrophic great flood. In a journey across a mountain lake, the fable is recounted by one of the 14 remaining Kawesqar people.
Waiting for Women
Estephan Wagner / UK / 34 mins
The women left the remote Spanish village of Riofrio years ago. Only men are left, without the slightest possibility of finding a relationship. What a great excuse to have a party.
Women - Activists
Vanessa Engle / UK / 59 mins / World Premiere
This episode from Vanessa Engle’s new three-part documentary series for the BBC follows a group of young fired-up feminists in London.
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