When Bradford City FC met Lincoln City on 11 May 1985 for the final game of the season, what everyone hoped to remember was the carnival atmosphere in the stadium. But what happened at the end of a goalless first half was instead the stuff of nightmares. A fire, believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette or match, engulfed one of the old wooden stands. 56 lives were lost, and the event made headlines around the world as the city and the nation struggled to confront the enormity of the loss to Bradford. The prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, travelled to the scene of the disaster as the media looked to someone to blame, and a senior judge was appointed to launch an inquiry. The findings would have a long-lasting impact on safety at football matches in Britain and around the world. With access to survivors, family members of those lost and emergency service first responders, this film aims to relive a largely forgotten tragedy
A group of artists with chronic pain come together in discussion and co-creation with the hope of using art as a way to process and heal wounds that seemingly cannot be healed.
The secret of Alberto Portera (David Plaza, 2025) is a selection of fragments of an unpublished filmmaker so far: Alberto Portera. Neurosurgeon by profession, but interested in the artistic gesture, to which he dedicated numerous articles and essays, he recorded with his camera the artists of the group El Paso in action, in his daily artistic activity (Millares, Saura, Hernández Mompó, Canogar...). But he also recorded filming of Carlos Saura, clinical essays, trips, performances... Alberto Portera presents himself to us as a missing link between the tradition of classic documentary and amateur art and essay cinema. These films have recently been restored and digitized by the Juan March Foundation.
An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
Cecilia Bartolomé, a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer from Alicante, is a pioneer of Spanish cinema. Mistreated by censorship, she still preserves at 80 the free spirit that has always defined her. We will journey with her through a fascinating life, a vital body of work, and a struggle that remains—so far, yet so close.
Airports, detention centres, sea containers. Slow, roaming shots linger on places of passage and confinement, where movement is measured and controlled. Fragments of stories, words passed from one person to another. Encounters along the way reveal different ways of seeing, different ways of understanding. Voices emerge, sharing stories from those held inside Brook House, a large immigration centre on London’s outskirts. Through shifting perspectives, the film examines migration, control, and the space between perception and reality.
A love letter to the UK Caribbean diaspora, exploring black histories, physical spaces and notions of community. The site of the Keskidee Centre, a pioneering Afro-Caribbean cultural centre, is now occupied by luxury apartments. The closure of such valued spaces where people could gather and organise coincided with the rise of a political discourse which led to a lack of documentation of Black Caribbean pasts. Working on the surface of the film image itself – making use of a rostrum camera and optical printer – filmmaker Rhea Storr reflects on the histories that remain trapped in the archive and how capitalism has affected our connection to the past.
Diary of an Elephant Orphan takes us through the struggles and turmoils of orphaned baby elephants and the people who have made it their life's mission to save them. Khanyisa is the newest addition to the elephant sanctuary.
A passionate conservationist makes a cruel pact to save endangered seabirds from extinction on an inhospitable island, alone. In the end, it's a victory for the birds, but at what price?
This short documentary explores the filmmaking process behind Ambel (2014), a historical drama directed by José María López Oñate. The film tells the story of Martín de Ambel, a 17th-century nobleman who, after a duel of honor in which he kills the town’s Chief Constable, Don Alonso de Góngora, is forced to take refuge for more than 30 years in the Church of La Concepción to preserve his life.
Hanna Schygulla, one of the icons of European cinema and herself a refugee child, meets four young men again after seven years who came to Berlin as unaccompanied refugee minors in 2015.
Katie Meyer was a standout Stanford goalkeeper, NCAA champion, and aspiring law student whose life ended tragically in March 2022, just three months shy of her graduation. Through archival footage, her own words, and emotional interviews with her family, the film explores the psychological impact of a sudden disciplinary charge from Stanford’s Office of Community Standards, the wrongful death lawsuit her parents filed, and the advocacy that led to the introduction of Katie Meyer’s Law.
The Wild Defending Itself is a feature-length documentary (90 min) by Vincent Verzat, produced by Partager c'est Sympa. The film traces his path between militancy and naturalism, his search for a balance between combat and contemplation. Based on a personal and sensitive story, the film makes the link between wild animals and the struggles being waged throughout France against the destruction of their habitats. The Wild Defending Itself sets out a path for living with dignity and preparing for what lies ahead.