20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A very deliberate and well crafted document, marking Nick Cave’s 54.79^th birthday. Without doubt how much you think you are going to enjoy this constructed window on Nick Cave’s imagined and real worlds, is much dependent on how much you like Nick Cave in yours … however, the part performance, part trad-doc, part existential exploration, part fairytale, has enough insight into the mind-tank of this contemporary cult figure to turn even the goodest of seeds b find out more...

5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2011)

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Palestinian farm labourer Emad Burnat documents his family and community’s peaceful but determined resistance against the Israeli plans to build a wall along the West Bank that will slice their land in two. With hundreds of hours of video footage covering a period of over six years, Emad started working with Israeli activist and filmmaker Guy Davidi to produce this film. An effecting work o find out more...

911 MYSTERIES (2007)

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Yup, those darn conspiracy theorist are at it again. This documentary specifically looks at the anomalies and inconsistancies of the 9/11 disaster as they relate to the demolition of the two towers that occurred after the planes hit. How do you get a 110-storey building to collapse in just 10 seconds? What caused the explosions heard just before the collapse? And what is the significance of the unusual and lengthy power shortage that occurred a couple of weeks before the disaster? All these ques find out more...

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A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES (2008)

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'A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures' follows independent filmmaker Chris Waitt as he interviews his ex-girlfriends in an attempt to find out why they dumped him. It doesn't take long to grasp why Chris has succeeded only to fail so many times, but it's a gloriously tragicomic, if predictable, journey. find out more...

A CRUDE AWAKENING (2006)

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Featuring testimonies from many of the world's top experts; petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, political analysts et al, this rich documentary reaches an ominous yet logical conclusion, that the Earth's cheap oil supplies are peaking, a crisis of global proportions looms and the industrial societies have nothing sustainable to replace our immense energy requirements. "Crude Awakening" is an intelligent and genuinely absorbing film arguing the case for 'pea find out more...

A DEAL WITH THE UNIVERSE (2018)

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A beautiful, heartfelt documentary detailing the pregnancy journey of Jason, a transgender man, and his wife Tracy. Filmed entirely on a handheld camcorder, the film is one of the most profoundly moving documentaries I've ever seen. It's also really funny. - Daisy

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A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE (2003)

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A fascinating documentary on the Hollywood revolution in the 1970s that became known as the second �Golden Era'. Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin and Roger Corman and others recount the remarkable change in thinking and film making brought about by a desire for realism rather than fantasy and heavily influenced by the new wave of European cinema. Directed by screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme. find out more...

A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM (1994)

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On a summer's day in 1958, fifty seven of the era's greatest jazz musicians gathered together in Harlem, New York City. The purpose - a now legendary photograph to be taken by top snapper Art Kane. This is the fascinating story of that day and the people, many of whom had never really met before, involved, with home-movie camera clips, some great musical interludes and interviews with many of the participants 35 years on. Narrated by Quincy Jones. find out more...

A IS FOR AUTISM (1992)

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A fascinating and at times stunning series of animation's using the art work of five young people with autism. A is for Autism provides an easily graspable idea of what it is to be autistic and the thought process of those whose lives it dominates. find out more...