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This year's festival will run from June 10 to 15. It will open with Just Stop Oil film We, The Hated. We are currently inputting the film data for this festival, so please check back.
View Films by Strand:
- Debates
- Guest Of Honour programme: Maxine Peake
- International Competition
- International First Feature Competition
- Journeys
- Memories
- People & Community
- Rebellions
- Rhythms
- Tim Hetherington Award
- Youth Jury Award
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When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
A hidden history through an underground network of telephone helplines. The calls, recorded in handwritten notes, were preserved during a time of profound constitutional change in Ireland, when women were fighting for their rights in a restrictive and conservative society.
When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you do anything?
In Nigeria's Niger Delta, where oil extraction has poisoned the land for decades, poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey nurtures a new generation of writers to fight back.
Documentary following Maikhuu one of the country's only female truck drivers in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
George, a shy teenager with an eye disorder, struggles to connect with others after his parents’ divorce and finds refuge in the world of insects.
Filmed over 10 years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.
An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
A documentary about the campaign to unionise underpaid and victimised women who clean office blocks at night.
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