Musa Syeed | 2014

United States, Yemen | 5 min | 8+ years | Arabic with English subtitles |

When a Yemeni boy finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.

An exploration of the legacy of the hundreds of Scots who travelled to Spain between 1936 and 1939 to fight against fascism.

Rachel Boynton | 2013

Denmark, United Kingdom, United States | 99 min | 15+ years | English with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF14

Unprecedented access to the high-powered world of African oil deals.

A celebration of the humble bike and the world wide community of cyclists who ride

The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system.

An Ethiopian Coffee Union manager as he travels the world to obtain a better price for his workers’ coffee beans.

30 activists set sail for the Arctic to stop the first oil drilling, only to find themselves arrested and charged with piracy in an international show trial.

Ed Perkins | 2018

United Kingdom | 27 min | 15+ years | English with English subtitles |

Black Sheep blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction to pose difficult and highly topical questions about race and identity. Who decides what makes us who we are? And what compromises are we prepared to make in order to fit in?

A powerful expose of the way killer whales have been treated under captivity at Seaworld

A young US man drifting through India ends up in an HIV orphanage

A filmmaker connects the materials used in mobile phones to illegal mines in the DRC using child labour.

Rousing portrait of the fledgling activist who set out to provide free sanitary products for those who can’t afford them.

Britton Caillouette | 2018

United States | 45 min | 8+ years | English, Albanian, Macedonian with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF18

Combining stunning cinematography with a fantastic breadth of individual portraits, this sumptuous documentary chronicles communities fighting to save the last wild rivers of Europe.

Petr Oukropec, Bohdan Sláma | 2011

Czech Republic | 90 min | 8+ years | Czech with English subtitles |

An evil mayor’s plans threaten lush gardens and a blue tiger–can two children stop him using just their imagination?

A tribute to one of the toughest jobs during Liberia’s Ebola crisis

Is dialogue still possible in public and political discourse?

A quiet country scene is disrupted by a crowd

Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman | 2004

United States | 85 min | 12+ years | English, Bengali with English subtitles |

The children of Calcutta’s red light district discover photography in this tribute to the resiliency of childhood, and the restorative power of art.