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In this major season we spotlight Japanese filmmakers who have inspired admiration and fascination around the world ...

British cinema pioneer Claude Friese-Greene, known for his beautiful colour travelogue The Open Road (1926), liked to feature young ladies gracefully posing within a scene. Bordering on the risqué, ...

Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny (O’Connor) is dedicated to keeping his family’s farm afloat after his father’s stroke. He finds release from his exhausting everyday life through binge drinking and ...

Ancient ancestors of Wallace, Gromit and Morph abound in this trick film filled with malleable magic. Walter Booth made a number of films that began to explore the potential of stop-motion to bring ...

Legendary bubbly blonde 1950s TV starlet Sabrina (born Norma Sykes) slips into something more comfortable after luxuriating with her loofah in this (very slightly) saucy home-viewing 8mm glamour short ...

Adapted from the book by Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre stars Matt Smith as Richard, an archaeologist obsessed with uncovering the roots of an ancient oak tree, and Morfydd Clark as Juliette, who ...

From US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, which used native people as radiation guinea pigs, to the expansion of its military bases across the region, from Japan to Korea, writer and presenter ...

A soon-to-be-bride takes one last night to try something she's always wanted to in Paris, a passionate affair reaches its breaking point in the suburbs of America and two 'friends' finally have a long ...

Innovative filming techniques and powerful interviews are used to strip away the façade of how the conflict in Northern Ireland was reported. It reconstructs one of that period’s most shocking ...

A perfect stranger. The boy next door. A sparring partner. A friend from abroad. Peccadillo’s 23rd edition of their Boys on Film series presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the ...

A chance meeting at a swimming pool sparks a change in the life and perspective of a young refugee forever, the morning after the night before has two unfamiliar girls questioning how they awoke in ...