Nothing Compares and Dreaming Walls
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Bonnie
(Country: US, France; Year: 2022; Director: Simon Wallon)
Profile of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Dreaming Walls (Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel)
(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Maya Duverdier, Amélie van Elmbt; Writer: Maya Duverdier, Amélie van Elmbt)
Documents a critical juncture in the Chelsea Hotel's history, as it prepares to evict longtime residents and transform into a luxury hotel.
Eternal Spring
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jason Loftus)
Following the hijacking of a TV station and police raids in Changchun City, comic book illustrator, Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening violent repression, but his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, who is living in Seoul, South Korea.
A House Made Of Splinters
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont)
In eastern Ukraine, follow the daily life of children and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.
A House Made Of Splinters and All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
How To Save A Dead Friend
(Country: Sweden, Norway, France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Marusya Syroechkovskaya)
Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
Innocence
(Country: Israel, Iceland, Denmark, Finland; Year: 2022; Director: Guy Davidi)
Tackles the issue of militarisation and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values.
Karaoke Paradise
(Country: Finland; Year: 2022; Director: Einari Paakkanen)
Exploring the Finnish passion for karaoke.
Mariupolis 2
(Country: Lithuania, France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Mantas Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilbrova, Mantas Kvedaravicius)
Documentary about everyday life in the shadow of invasion for the people of Mariupol.
Nothing Compares
(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Kathryn Ferguson; Writer: Eleanor Emptage, Kathryn Ferguson, Michael Mallie; Stars: Sinéad O'Connor)
The story of Sinéad O'Connor's phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on Sinéad's prophetic words and deeds from 1987 to 1993, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens.