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[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

Saw @hostiledoc @BerthaDocHouse last week. Film-maker Sonita Gale walks alongside victims of a discriminatory ‘hostile environment’ policy and explores the impact on British society.

Well worth your time. #FilmTwitter #Documentary

[Galeforce Films @GaleForceFilms]

Book your tickets now BAFTA longlisted @hostiledoc showing @GateCinema revealing the #HostileEnvironment for migrants in the UK
Tickets available: https://t.co/X1NLjqw8U8
Trailer: https://t.co/igTaz5JSDh
@PeterBradshaw1 4 Star review @guardian https://t.co/9FhwzCeVfC

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

4/7 (edit): children wished guns would shoot ‘love hearts’.

And instead of dropping barrel bombs why wouldn’t the planes drop food? It would be cheaper. Al-Khatib captures the wise honesty of children having to grow up too fast.

@londoncaat I recommend this film.

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege - a profound screening at @BerthaDocHouse

And a mark of how ridiculous the @ukhomeoffice has become that it would not give the director a visa for a recent festival. He is a refugee in Germany 1/7
https://t.co/b1aorui9GW @DocsSpot

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

7/7 Little Palestine consigns right wing rhetoric on refugees to the dirt where it belongs, and affirms the importance of solidarity. In a siege, suffering is every day. It must be shared to survive. those holding their sorrow quietly will ‘betray’ the collective, and themselves.

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

Camp residents trying to break the siege pleaded with the regime that Palestinians & Syrians are one and (calling for @UNHumanRights assistance) that Christ was a Palestinian refugee. 3/7

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

When his friend was detained and killed by Assad’s regime he left behind a camera. Al-Khatib picked it up. The film reflects in equal measures on grief, solidarity, hope, anger and hunger. Beyond this, the director felt a grim duty to watch out for massacre & document abuses. 2/7

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

Loved Griffin Dunne's documentary, not only due to Didion's iconic power of insight but also because she moved between worlds: a fascinating social milieu. #RIPJoanDidion

[Courtney Howard @Lulamaybelle]

Joan Didion, rather literally, wrote the book on navigating grief (“The Year of Magical Thinking”). If you don’t know much about her and her career, her nephew Griffin Dunne made a great documentary (on Netflix), JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD. #RIPJoanDidion

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

... this has been a longer 🧵 than expected, but such a valuable perspective was brought to bear in this Q&A.

Here's the trailer for Procession
https://t.co/CKWhIave73

#film #Documentary

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

PROCESSION shows that good docs are never confined to the past, when "they absolutely change the lives of the people who allow you to film them ... Documentaries have to be about the present and they have to be about the future.”
👏 Robert Greene @prewarcinema Q&A @BerthaDocHouse

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

And a footnote - part of the reason for this is the limitations of journalism & of Direct Cinema to fully contextualise what has happened in these cases of abuse: “Direct Cinema says you can film people and truth will emerge. And that’s been debunked again and again and again.”

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

🌊 Gorgeous biographical documentary Becoming Cousteau wins at #LFF

Trailer - https://t.co/eyv6dIMYiI 🎞

[Dogwoof Sales @DogwoofSales]

Massive congratulations to @lizgarbus for taking home the Grierson Award for Documentary Competition with BECOMING COUSTEAU at this year's #lffawards ! 🎉

@griersontrust // @BFI // @natgeodocs

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

.@Biofuelwatch can bring you experts, & the world needs more BURNED screenings. Are trees the new coal?

@BerthaDocHouse @IDAorg @Greenpeace @OpenCityDocs @TrueStory_Film @globalforests @Global_Witness @AlJazeera_World @frontlineclub @wwf_uk @foe_us @AsYouSow

#ClimateEmergency

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

Raheb’s debut Sleepless Nights was as profound in many ways as Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing & released in the same year.

Can’t wait to see Miguel’s War. She is a visionary, with a deep understanding of her subjects.
#FilmTwitter

[Bertha DocHouse @BerthaDocHouse]

We're thrilled to be one of the partner venues for this year's @Raindance Film Festival! 🤩

🎬 28 Oct, @sorosfilm + Q&A: https://t.co/3jmPaCAANf

🎬 30 Oct, Miguels War + Q&A: https://t.co/0VZB8soROs

🎬 30 Oct, White Noise + Q&A: https://t.co/wW8MBQ1E2R

[Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow]

Looking forward to seeing this new doc.

This image, by Bert Hardy, was known for years simply as 'Gorbals Boys', so it's nice to be able to put names to this pair; that's Leslie Mason and George Davis, on their way to get some messages, in Clelland Street, in 1948.

[DOCyards @Doc_Yards]

@Medact @mayrbsn @barelifefilms @SoniaAdesara Will keep an eye out for any future screenings of this one. Important choice of subject, thanks :)