Jalna Hanmer

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, documenting a crucial moment in the library's herstory as it fights for its very survival. Shortlisted for the Women's History Network Community Prize, the film revisits the story of the library's inception and emphasises why feminism remains essential today.

JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of the past. Children mug for the camera with dances of the day, upright mothers march their strollers up the avenue, men smoke, the family gathers around the table to light the candles. The bare title cannot help but raise the specter of contemporaneous events in Europe, lending an extra degree of urgency to the film's meditation on disappearance. - Max Goldberg

This British documentary looks at 40 years of the London Community Gospel Choir, focusing on co-founder Bazil Meade who travelled to the United Kingdom from Montserrat as a boy.

PINA is an explosion. The documentary follows PINA—a Brazilian rapper, pedagogue, and poet—who confronts the daily struggles of being a woman in several male-dominated fields. The audience is invited into an intimate, casual, and profound conversation between the rapper and the filmmaker, Alexia Pereira, a director navigating her own challenges in a male-dominated film industry. Always striking the right bpm, PINA reflects the power of women who use rap as a social response.

DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of the image and the language of mainstream pornography, and wonders how far this use can transcend when making your porn film.

A deep dive into the current state and business of independent cinemas operating in Manchester, UK. The declaration that "movie theatres are dying" gets tossed around a lot these days. But is that really the case? Let's find out.

The Handley Page Halifax four-engined heavy bomber was the unsung hero of Bomber Command during the Second World War. It flew over 39,000 sorties over enemy territory, towed gliders, dropped agents, carried cargo, and pioneered electronic warfare. In all 6,178 were built. Today only three remain.

A film about Karla Ojeda and Maira Ramírez, two transvestites going through adoption, and Gabriela Mansilla, mother of a trans girl.  Their stories are intertwined with songs and poems by Susy Shock, a trans artist, poet and writer.