The unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains the world’s most sensational child murder case. Over 15 months, responses, reflections and performances were elicited from the Ramsey’s Colorado hometown community, creating a bold work of art from the collective memories and mythologies the crime inspired.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kitty Green)
World premiere
Chasing Coral
Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jeff Orlowski)
What emerges is a warm profile of two people who love each other, working a damned sight harder than many neurotypical couples to get over the humps in the road.
An unconventional love story.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini)
This cinema verité look at the long-troubled Oakland Police Department goes deep inside their struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson and an explosive scandal. World premiere
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Nicks; Writer: Linda Davis, Lawrence Lerew, Peter Nicks)
Uncompromising millennial radicals from the US and the UK attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Adam Bhala Lough)
World premiere
Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker And Trials Of A Free Press
The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press, and raised important questions about how big money can silence media. This film is an examination of the perils and duties of the free press in an age of inequality.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Brian Knappenberger)
The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the US and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau)
This isn't just a film to inform those who are lucky enough to know very little about ME, it also serves as a love letter of understanding for those who have it and a call to arms for everyone.
Filmmaker documents her own experience - and that of others - with ME.
(Country: US, UK, Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Jennifer Brea; Writer: Jennifer Brea; Stars: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Jessica Taylor, Samuel Bearman, Ruby Taylor, Colin Taylor, Kate Taylor, Paul Cheney, Lee-Ray Denton, Casie Jackson, Darwin Jackson, Randy Denton, Jessica Harden, Annabel Jackson, Sawyer Jackson)
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In California's convoluted water system, notorious water barons find ways to structure a state-engineered system to their own advantage. This examination into their centres of power shows small farmers and everyday citizens facing drought and a new, debilitating groundwater crisis.
A nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it, this is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back — and sparked a global movement.
