Screenings
London Premiere Screening – After the Apocalypse
Harrowing and striking Anthony Butts’ After the Apocalypse offers a close insight into the modern day victims of ‘the polygon’– an area where, for forty years, the Soviet Union dropped 456 bombs on its unsuspecting inhabitants. Forced to live without knowledge of the terrifying effects of radiation, the villagers speak out on how the ordeals they’ve faced will live on for generations.
Sunday Screening – Camp Victory Afghanistan
Camp Victory Afghanistan gets at the reality on the ground of the US/NATO “Exit Strategy” from Afghanistan. Made over the course of five years, the film follows a battle-hardened Afghan General and the steady stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to train him and his army.
Screening – Battle for Marjah
The Battle for Marjah is a breathtaking film that shows just how dangerous and difficult the situation in Southern Afghanistan has become, and how hard it will be to turn around.
Screening – Africa United
Africa United is the story of three Rwandan children and their incredible journey to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Screening – The Oath
Following the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals, The Oath is a rare and eye-opening insight into the inner workings and day-to-day reality of Al Qaeda.
Premiere Screening – The Alternative Iraq Enquiry
Questioning the motives of the war and the responsibilities for its atrocities on both sides of the Atlantic, The Alternative Iraq Enquiry reaches the fundamental question: who is responsible for the atrocities of war?
Screening – War Don Don
WAR DON DON explores the world of international law with unprecedented access. Following the trial of Issa Sesay – war criminal to some, crucial part of the peaceful liberation of Sierra Leone to others- WAR DON DON illustrates all perspectives on trial in the capital of Sierra Leone.
Sneak Preview Screening – Just Do It
Just Do it is a feature length documentary about civil disobedient climate activism in the UK.
This screening and Q&A will explore the legality of working with people the state labels ‘criminals’.
POSTPONED: Screening – Leaving Fear Behind
Leaving Fear Behind is a documentary at the forefront of issues of censorship in Tibet. Directed by Dhondup Wangchen, the film embarks on a meditative journey throughout Tibet in the summer of 2008, conducting an emotional opinion poll of ordinary Tibetans on the state of the nation, the upcoming Olympic games in China, and the continued exile of Tibet’s highest leader, the Dalai Lama.
Screening – Dirty Little Secrets
This summer marked the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a three year conflict between Communist North Korea and a US-led South Korean-supporting UN coalition. In Dirty Little Secrets filmmaker Tim Tate explores a lesser known aspect to the war, North Korea’s allegations of US sanctioned use of biological weapons, and with unique access byPyongyang’s secretive rulers he visits the sites of the alleged with alarming discoveries.
Liberation Season: Screening – Stolen
Filmmakers Ayala and Fallshaw follow Fetim Sellami, a Saharawi refugee, to North Africa for a reunion with her mother. Mother and child were separated when Sellami was a toddler. But the UN-sponsored reunion reveals a secret which spirals the film into a dark world the filmmakers could never have imagined. The Saharawis start talking about a forbidden subject…Their enslavement.
Kim Longinotto presents – Sisters in Law
This fascinating, often hilarious documentary follows the work of Cameroonian State Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba as they help women fight often-difficult cases of abuse, despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent.
Liberation Season: Screening – The Hunger Season
The Hunger Season follows two years of an unfolding humanitarian crisis in one small African nation Swaziland, and uses this example to ask why, in spite of our incredible agricultural productivity, in spite of the Millennium Goals and a massive UN food aid programme, are we failing to solve the problem of hunger?
Screening – Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Featuring unique interviews with over twenty of the world’s greatest actors, directors and technicians, Cameraman is not only a valuable testimony to British and international cinema history; it’s an informative and sometimes humorous one too — an amazing story about an exceptional life.
CANCELLED: Screening – We Are Together
Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss.
UK Premiere Screening – Collapse
Followed by a Q&A with Director Chris Smith. A former Los Angeles police officer turned investigative journalist, Michael Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. Drawing from data and news stories he explains his unique interpretation in the face of fierce opposition.
Liberation Season: Screening – Good Fortune
Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
SOLD OUT: Screening – A Small Act
When Swedish teacher Hilde Back decides to sponsor a young, rural Kenyan student she thought little more about it. Years later, out of the blue she hears from Chris Mburu, now a Harvard Graduate and Human Rights Lawyer for the United Nations. A Small Act bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create.
FULLY BOOKED Liberation Season: Screening – Kabul at Work
A documentary that follows four ordinary, yet extraordinary, men and women
throughout the course of their working days, showing a different side of life in Afghanistan’s bustling capital.
FULLY BOOKED Screening – The Trouble with Pirates
The Trouble with Pirates is a revealing look at how a small group of men in speedboats have come to threaten world trade in the Indian Ocean and the human cost of their actions.


NEW Screening – Afghanistan in the UK
Traveling to STANTA training camp in East Anglia which is designed to exactly replicate army strongholds in Afghanistan, the VICE team show the grueling recruitment training process required before soldiers are ready for combat.
Liberation Season: Screening – 1968, with Martin Bell
1968 explores the events that left the world reeling. Amongst the height of flower power and free love, the world witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Robert F Kennedy, rioting, the rise of Black Power and the May student uprisings in Paris.
POSTPONED: Screening – Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Shouting Fire examines the naked truth behind this monumental canon on which America; “the land of the free”, rests. But perhaps more precariously than one might think. Director Liz Garbus, and her father Martin Garbus, a First Amendment Attorney, explore the complexities involved in upholding such a law. A law that is often steeped in controversy, double standards, unlawful censorship and sometimes even violence.
Liberation Season: Screening – Made in Pakistan
In October 2007, Newsweek not only shook the Pakistani Community in America and abroad with it’s brash statement: “Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world”, but also precipitated the making of Made in Pakistan, the first documentary to be released cinematically in Pakistan. The result was a cleverly-crafted piece of filmmaking introducing us to the another, brighter side of Pakistan.
Liberation Season: Screening – American: The Bill Hicks Story
Charismatic and and piercingly witty to most, aggressively sanctimonious to a some, Hicks life and his life’s work are dramatically and viscerally brought to life in Harlock and Thomas’ acclaimed documentary.
Liberation Season: Screening – India’s Forgotten Women
India’s forgotten women delves into the sordid buried practices, bringing to light the startling reality of how the lives of women in India are often dictated by ancient rites and pitiless customs, alive and thriving within the world’s largest democracy
Liberation Season: Screening – Africa’s Last Taboo
What is Africa’s last taboo? Emmy award winning journalist Sorious Samura brings to light the brutal and little reported contemporary persecution faced by tens of thousands of African gay men.
Postponed: Screening – Dirty Oil
Told through the eyes of scientists, “big oil” officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly affected by “the largest industrial project on the planet today”, the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to uncover the emotional and irreversible impact this “black gold rush” is taking on our planet.
Sunday Screening – Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time is an intriguing primer on the reasons behind the economic disaster that has affected us all. With interviews with bankers, respected economists, insiders, top journalists, and even convicted white-collar criminal Sam Antar, who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices, Plunder is a definitive look at how we came to be in this mess told through the mouths of some of those who helped create it.
NEW DATE: Special Screening – Sergio
Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power’s biography Chasing the Flame, Sergio tells the story of UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed when a massive truck bomb exploded outside his office in Iraq.
