The festival returns for its eighth year, with a programme of contemporary and retrospective creative documentary and non-fiction filmmaking.

A dark Icelandic dramedy in which mistrust and petty conflicts between neighbours boil over into violent acts.

Created entirely from hundreds of hours of Chinese surveillance footage found online, Dragon Fly Eyes is an attempt to understand how the spaces in which we live are increasingly framed by the gaze of others, both human and computer.

An intimate portrait of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, following his return to music after battling cancer.

El Mar La Mar by J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta is an attempt via an innovative combine of aesthetics, sound design and ethnography to tell the story of migration across the Sonoran desert into the US.

Marcelo Martinessi’s Silver Bear winning debut feature is at once a fine character study and an acute commentary on class privilege.

Sitting somewhere between ethnography and magical realism, Shevaun Mizrahi’s debut documentary records the stories of the residents of an old people’s home in Istanbul.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins delves into Welles’ off-screen art in this heartfelt new portrait of the legendary actor and director.

Questions of responsibility and culpability swirl in this story of a forensics doctor who becomes convinced he has caused a child’s death.

The powerful impact of Alexander's personality and work is captured in never-before-seen home movies, audio tapes and behind the scenes footage.

Ulrike Ottinger’s rarely seen first feature, shown on 16mm, is a highly aestheticised adventure of self-transformation.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

This sensual and unsettling film explores fidelity and the myth of domestic happiness.

Orphaned at six years old, Frida is adopted by her uncle’s family in the Catalan countryside and learns to cope with her trauma, displacement, confusion and loneliness.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

An African-American detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in visionary filmmaker Spike Lee’s retelling of a true story.

A trio of women wrestle with the rules and restrictions of their faith in British director Daniel Kokotajlo’s devastating debut.

In this documentary by Clément Cogitore, two feuding families live in adjoining compounds deep in Siberia’s boreal forest, their settlement completely unreachable by road.

Living by their own rules, two families inhabiting Siberia’s boreal forest are threatened by each other, wild animals and environmental change.

Fairy tales weave with mafia control in this story of a missing 13-year-old and one girl’s unrelenting desire to find him.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting exploration of faith and history uses gritty monochrome to evoke Poland’s communist era.

Investigating how aid dollars are spent, Thor Neureiter’s documentary offers unique insight into a multi-billion dollar world. Followed by a Q&A with writer and producer Antony Lowenstein.

The festival returns for its eighth year, with a programme of contemporary and retrospective creative documentary and non-fiction filmmaking.

A dark Icelandic dramedy in which mistrust and petty conflicts between neighbours boil over into violent acts.

Created entirely from hundreds of hours of Chinese surveillance footage found online, Dragon Fly Eyes is an attempt to understand how the spaces in which we live are increasingly framed by the gaze of others, both human and computer.

An intimate portrait of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, following his return to music after battling cancer.

El Mar La Mar by J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta is an attempt via an innovative combine of aesthetics, sound design and ethnography to tell the story of migration across the Sonoran desert into the US.

Marcelo Martinessi’s Silver Bear winning debut feature is at once a fine character study and an acute commentary on class privilege.

Sitting somewhere between ethnography and magical realism, Shevaun Mizrahi’s debut documentary records the stories of the residents of an old people’s home in Istanbul.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins delves into Welles’ off-screen art in this heartfelt new portrait of the legendary actor and director.

Questions of responsibility and culpability swirl in this story of a forensics doctor who becomes convinced he has caused a child’s death.

The powerful impact of Alexander's personality and work is captured in never-before-seen home movies, audio tapes and behind the scenes footage.

Ulrike Ottinger’s rarely seen first feature, shown on 16mm, is a highly aestheticised adventure of self-transformation.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

This sensual and unsettling film explores fidelity and the myth of domestic happiness.

Orphaned at six years old, Frida is adopted by her uncle’s family in the Catalan countryside and learns to cope with her trauma, displacement, confusion and loneliness.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

An African-American detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in visionary filmmaker Spike Lee’s retelling of a true story.

A trio of women wrestle with the rules and restrictions of their faith in British director Daniel Kokotajlo’s devastating debut.

In this documentary by Clément Cogitore, two feuding families live in adjoining compounds deep in Siberia’s boreal forest, their settlement completely unreachable by road.

Living by their own rules, two families inhabiting Siberia’s boreal forest are threatened by each other, wild animals and environmental change.

Fairy tales weave with mafia control in this story of a missing 13-year-old and one girl’s unrelenting desire to find him.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting exploration of faith and history uses gritty monochrome to evoke Poland’s communist era.

Investigating how aid dollars are spent, Thor Neureiter’s documentary offers unique insight into a multi-billion dollar world. Followed by a Q&A with writer and producer Antony Lowenstein.