- Documentary filmmaker Dean Puckett interrogates the writer and international security analyst Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It – a powerful critique of a failed global system and a manifesto for constructive social change. Taking a similar filmmaking approach to Adam Curtis, he [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Presented in partnership with Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network, The Refugee All Stars tells the amazing story of six Sierra Leonan musicians who face a daily struggle to keep their hope and music alive. Civil war in their home country forces them to live in a refugee camp in the Republic of Guinea, but despite [...]Click to read more about this film »
- This second programme of short films demonstrates the incredible talents of international animators, some of them very new to the festival scene. Like the creator of irresistible Don Justino de Neve, a charming scoundrel who leaves a trail of broken women behind him, or the sculptor who moulded figures from sand and from snow and [...]Click to read more about this film »
