For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of refugees and migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates to build a picture of life in a transient town where the inhabitants dream of somewhere better. Original music by Mustafa Santic and Michel Duvoisin. Rented with kind permissi find out more...

Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York's Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. find out more...

In 1970, some of the greatest musicians of all time, including Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Buddy Guy, Sha Na Na, Delaney and Bonny, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird, travelled together on a train across Canada, jamming, tooting, smoking, drinking and staging concerts along the way. Featuring a line up to kill for, including some of the last recorded performances of the sorely missed genius of Joplin, and unique find out more...

'Happiness' tracks the bittersweet transition as an innocent, simpler lifestyle slowly fades to the seduction of technology and progress in the village of Laya, nestled deep in the Himalayan mountainside of Bhutan. Told through the eyes of Peyangki; a captivating and dreamy nine year old boy, who is sent by his mother to study at the local monastery because she cannot afford to raise all six of her children. Beautiful, sad and... inevitable.

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Originally filmed and aired in 1974, Ridin' the Rails is a nostalgic look at the history of the American railroad through the song and story of the legendary Johnny Cash. find out more...

A major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence; before, during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents, bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Striking in their different approach to the form, using poetry, dramatic reconstruction and explicit propaganda, the film-makers found fresh, new ways to get their message across. find out more...

Every year the world's greatest human migration takes place, the annual return of city workers to their home villages for the Chinese New Year. For several years director Lixin Fan has followed one family and in 16 years they've seen their daughter just a few days each year and now she has grown into a bitter rebellious teenager.
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The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...