Open City Documentary Festival

#TheArtOfNonFiction | 6-11 May 2025 | Courses + MA/MFA @UCLanthropology | Keep up to date:

[UCL School for the Creative & Cultural Industries @UCL_SCCI]

Tune into FIGHT FAIR @BBCRadio4 today at 11.45am!👇

"A punchy, pacy, personal story about what it means to overcome adversity on your own terms" from our @UCLEast Audio Storytelling MA student @LibbyLiburd

@CPATrust @UCLSocHistSci @ucl

[AKO Storytelling Institute @UALstorytelling]

📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢

🌟 JOIN THE STORYTELLING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2024/25 🌟

Are you a pioneer of storytelling for social change? 🌍

Find out more about the Storytelling Fellowship in Impact Production and apply: https://t.co/htedzkzyka

[Open City Documentary Festival @OpenCityDocs]

In the face of increasing political oppression and historical amnesia, Daniel Hui’s speculative fiction offers a timely chorus of political dissidence.

SNAKESKIN screens at the @BFI 25 July, 18:20pm

https://t.co/06mEX7MtIV

[Bertha DocHouse @BerthaDocHouse]

The Chinese master of slow cinema covers life in some of the country's 18,000 garment factories in this sprawling but focused documentary.' @csaquinlan for @LWLies

Don't miss our one-off screening of Wang Bing's Youth (Spring) on Sun 30 Jun. Book now: https://t.co/drFt8MGU2g

[Arta @_rtab_]

My second report on @OpenCityDocs 2024, this time for the @IDAorg.

https://t.co/kShCOvAOGc

[UCL School for the Creative & Cultural Industries @UCL_SCCI]

SCCI Cinema Club presents... Ben Sharrock's 'Limbo'.
A poignant comedy drama about a young Syrian musician, who finds himself stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.

📅 26 June, @ucleast 1 Pool Street Cinema, FREE
Book: https://t.co/E1q8EXyGDj

[Open City Documentary Festival @OpenCityDocs]

@JonathanAliTT is looking into organising a London pod to follow this year’s FLAHERTY SEMINAR remotely

TO COMMUNE, is programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij & Julian Ross and taking place at the Thai Film Archive from 27 June-2 July

More info: https://t.co/R8QGyjNH7U

[UCL School for the Creative & Cultural Industries @UCL_SCCI]

SHOWING TOMORROW, 7pm, @ucleast One Pool Street Cinema

Spectra presents a FREE screening of Theo Montoya's 'Anhell69' (2022), a powerful, genre-defying response to loss: https://t.co/9r6qTF1LnL

@UCLanthropology @UCLSocHistSci #PrideMonth2024 #PrideMonth

[Open City Documentary Festival @OpenCityDocs]

🚨 CALL FOR ENTRIES 🚨

Send us your creative, innovative, thought-provoking non-fiction filmmaking at short, mid and feature length, as well as short audio documentaries, and cross platform projects.⁠ ⁠

Deadline: 13 December 2024 🗓️

https://t.co/j8Wy60m0mG

[ULTRA DOGME @ultradogme]

Arta Barzanji (@_rtab_) reports from this year's @OpenCityDocs, writing on the Printed Forms event, the Militant Palestinian Cinema & New Militants programs and Robert Kramer's Milestones (1975).
https://t.co/80rUF5TYbV

[Jonathan Ali @JonathanAliTT]

Nice to see our @OpenCityDocs Nicolás Guillén Landrián retrospective @BarbicanCentre featured in this lovely FT piece on London cinemas and curation!

[MABarrington @barrington_ma]

In colab with @OpenCityDocs @BarbicanCentre shows two films by Peruvian filmmaker María Barea,

Antuca & Porque quería estudiar

Two explorations of struggles & triumphs of young women navigating exploitation, cultural divides, & personal transformation.

https://t.co/4WwXks0Ia0

[Cinenova @_cinenova]

Further screenings of Leila and the Wolves @ICALondon
https://t.co/UaUswWqXR6

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

Celluloid Liberation Front (@CLF_Project) write on Heiny Srour’s newly-restored 1984 film LEILA AND THE WOLVES, "a film of monumental resolve and ambition, determined to address the contradictions within the anti-colonial struggle." https://t.co/Hi9qdNNLM5

[Cine Latino @CineLatinoFilms]

Marita Barea’s fenomenal work screened @BarbicanCentre !
📆 Mon, June 3, 7pm
🎬 Antuca & Porque quería estudiar

🎟️ https://t.co/cvRuaXyC5p

Screening followed by a Q&A with María Barea and @mchiaradargenio
Cinema restored @OpenCityDocs

#cineperuano #peru #cinelatino #films

[Cinenova @_cinenova]

Due to popular demand 🎞️🇵🇸
Leila and the Wolves screenings @ICALondon extended until 15th May

[Open City Documentary Festival @OpenCityDocs]

We are deeply saddened by the news that Narcisa Hirsch passed away in the weekend. It was an honour to present her films at the festival just over a week ago, in 2 programmes beautifully curated by Jessica Sarah Rinland. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

[Cinenova @_cinenova]

"Leila and the Wolves 40th anniversary: Heiny Srour on her time-travelling tale of Arab womanhood"
Interview by Elhum Shakerifar for @BFI
https://t.co/NRtfbFFX50

[Cinenova @_cinenova]

Please read the brilliant text by Nadia Yahlom from Sarha Collective written in response to the film. Commissioned by @OpenCityDocs