documentary

How much do you really know about the people in your life?

A chance to watch one of the best London documentaries, and to question its scriptwriter.

Four days of screenings and events at UCL.

The very best of audio, in the historic Toynbee Hall.

Pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of Brian Eno’s Apollo to the Southbank this month. With a musical arrangement by Jun Lee (also known as kayip), who was selected for the task by Eno, it …

Amnesty are screening a series of documentaries about the arts helping people to overcome obstacles in their lives. There are two stand-out films – No One Knows About Persian Cats, last year’s Cannes Special Jury Prize winner about an Iranian duo trying to form a …

Know any acrobatic squirrels they could talk to? Is London’s most acrobatic squirrel raiding your bird feeders or are there birds nesting on your balcony? Have you ever met a Cockney badger or witnessed mallard gang rape? Have you seen a snake slithering along the …

All is not what it seems at The Invisible Dot‘s Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Festival, as they celebrate – appropriate to the season – the many ways the public has been duped by the media into believing a load of old bunkum. The third film to …

By wallyg Shoot Experience and the London International Documentary Festival gang up to lure you into their worlds, combining film, photography and your distinctive creative skills. Shoot Bloomsbury takes the tried and tested Shoot format and jazzes it up with fragments of film clips taken …

Screening today as part of the London International Documentary Festival is London Permabulator, a film about eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou that looks at our relationship with the edgelands of London. Featuring interviews with celebrated city commentators Iain Sinclair, Will Self and – um …