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Cinema Versa

Cinema Versa explores the world around us through the lens of nonfiction filmmaking, from the politics of truth and the future of technology, to urgent questions of ecology and the complexities of human identity.

We present UK premieres of Trans Memoria, Swedish artist and filmmaker Victoria Verseau’s poetic and perceptive diary film about her experiences of gender-affirming surgery in Thailand.

How to Build a Truth Engine interrogates the information battlefield in a post-truth world with a diverse range of different experts. Two very different films use archive footage in innovative ways, Billy, an intimate and complex portrait of a man with schizophrenia, and It Was All a Dream, a feminist music journalist’s inside view of the formative years of hip hop.

Elsewhere, in Grand Theft Hamlet two out of work actors try to stage a version of Hamlet entirely within the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Alex Ross Perry pushes the boundaries with the music documentary in Pavements and The Stimming Pool is a startlingly original artistic representation of the way neurodivergent people interact with the world.

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