documentary

The bold documentary explores the functions and importance of the vagina and the impact it has on the individual women interviewed. By touching on subjects that have largely been regarded as taboo or stigmatised, for example periods, female masturbation and the vagina itself, it aims to normalise conversation surrounding...

Poignant and purposeful, Back to Berlin is at once both a fascinating and hugely moving work, that quite literally uses its travelling lens to trace and reflect on some of the most chilling moments of Europe’s darkest century. “In spite of everything, we are here” These are the words of a...

As the winds get chillier and the days shorter, October brings with it a slew of horror movies in the run up to Halloween. Among them, is the typical ‘friends go to a forest (always a good idea) where a menacing creature awaits’ storyline in The Ritual. The Saw...

At a time when borders are becoming increasingly more talked about than unison, The Nottingham Alternative Film Network put together an evening dedicated to the understanding and celebration of immigration. On March the 19th, at The White Lion Bar and Kitchen pub in Beeston, the Nottingham Alternative Network put...

“The highest one can attain to truth is to attain his own illusions” –  L . Ron Hubbard. Louis takes on Scientology in My Scientology Movie. The church of Scientology is an onerous subject to make a documentary on. Not only is there a vast amount of films covering similar...

On the 11th October, Broadway Cinema in Nottingham will be showing a screening of ‘Sembène!’, a docu-film charting the life of ‘the father of African cinema’, who despite being a central figure in universal cinema, is relatively unknown in film circles. Directed by Samba Gadjigo, the official biographer of...

Directors Pete Middleton and James Spinney blur the lines between the scripted feature and the documentary in this eye-opening, soul wrenching, and insightful film. In 1983, shortly before the birth of his first son, theologian John Hull loses his eyesight after years of slow deterioration. From here on he...