Immigrants

A heartfelt exploration of one man’s struggle to reconcile with his Israeli family, while finding a new ‘family’ in London Gay Men’s Chorus.

Documenting the testimonies from those who dared to challenge the world and helped create the modern gay community.

Revolution rock! Rubika Shah’s vital documentary profiles punky reggae protest movement Rock Against Racism, from grassroots beginnings through to a major multicultural event.

Ground-breaking documentary that uses archive film to tell the story of the British Deaf community’s fight for civil rights.

A former soccer star and current local bureaucrat in a small Romanian town dream of revolutionising the rules of the world’s most popular sport, in this visionary documentary by master filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective).

Observing locals and visitors creates a highly original portrait of the Thai tourist town of Krabi in this collaboration between award-winning directors Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers.

The gritty and ground-breaking drama debuted Britain’s first black TV cop, with George William Harris as the CID officer embroiled in a drug war.

This documentary by Menelik Shabazz (Burning an Illusion) about the response to the New Cross Fire in 1981 prefigures the widespread social unrest later that year.

Experimental monologue about the trauma of racial harassment and self-hate that accompanies growing up mixed-race in Britain.

The women of Rastafari talk about their relationship to the movement’s development.

A ferocious dystopian nightmare, this was the first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release.

Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s celebrated experimental documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary.

Short documentary originally made for Swedish television which opens the doors a typical working-class pub in East London.

Documentary about the lives of the women who work at a striptease club called The Phoenix on Old Compton Street, in the heart of Soho in the swinging sixties.

Made for Swedish television, a look at a gang of "Rockers" who meet at a tea-kiosk on Chelsea Bridge.

Sally Hawkins gives a standout performance as a fragile young woman jilted on her wedding day.

A blind student’s relationship with his best friend is tested when he falls for the new boy in school, in Daniel Ribeiro’s beautifully realised romance.

A heartfelt exploration of one man’s struggle to reconcile with his Israeli family, while finding a new ‘family’ in London Gay Men’s Chorus.

Diego Quemada-Diez’s astounding debut feature follows four Guatemalan teenagers as they attempt to escape from the slums of Guatemala City to the bright lights of Los Angeles.

Simmering tensions between locals and newcomers in a modern-day Cornish fishing village reach boiling point in this hugely acclaimed British independent film.

Documenting the testimonies from those who dared to challenge the world and helped create the modern gay community.