Dreamers - People Of Light
(Xəyalpərəstlər — İşıq İnsanlar)
(Country: Azerbaijan; Year: 2025; Director: Imamaddin Hasanov)
The surreal and the everyday intersect when two visitors from space land in rural Azerbaijan and observe a coach trying to form the country’s first all-female football team.
I Died
(Li cham)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Ana Ts'uyeb; Writer: Ana Ts'uyeb)
Three Mexican women turn to the land to rebuild their lives, following the loss of babies and family members to patriarchal violence.
Life At 50C: The Battle Of Doongmabulla Springs
(Country: Australia, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Chris Phillips)
From BBC’s Life At 50°C strand, which looks at lives on the frontline of climate change, the film is set in Australia’s coal country.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
(Country: Czechia, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin; Writer: David Borenstein)
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
My Dear Theo
(Country: Poland, Ukraine, Czechia; Year: 2025; Director: Alisa Kovalenko; Stars: Alisa Kovalenko)
A mother, filmmaker and volunteer Ukrainian soldier offers up a testament to the power of love in a time of war, conveyed through letters to her young son.
Power Station
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Hilary Powell, Dan Edelstyn)
Two artists in Walthamstow set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution.
Runa Simi
(Country: Peru; Year: 2025; Director: Augusto Zegarra; Writer: Augusto Zegarra; Stars: Dylan Valencia, Fernando Valencia)
Follows an indigenous Peruvian man and his young son in their ambitious quest
to fully dub Disney’s animated The Lion King in their native Quechua.
The Stand
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Christopher Auchter)
Archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.
A State Of Passion
(Country: Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Jordan; Year: 2024; Director: Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi)
Account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
Writing Hawa
(Country: France, Netherlands, Qatar, Afghanistan; Year: 2024; Director: Najiba Noori; Writer: Ali Rasul Noori, Najiba Noori, Afsaneh Salari)
An Afghan filmmaker documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of females in her family.
