Seal and the City
Dir: Jake Lancaster | 2022 | United Kingdom | 10’ | English

The one thing stopping Billingsgate Fish Market from being redeveloped is a seal called Sammy, who has been visiting for breakfast for 20 years. But now, he's gone missing. A film crew go down the River Thames at night looking for him. On the way meeting mudlarkers, river police and animal psychics. A playful and comic documentary about a changing city.

Why My Mum Loves Russell Crowe
Dir: Emma van den Berg | 2022 | Netherlands, United Kingdom | 25’ | English

A documentary that sees a daughter exploring her own mother’s past experiences of sexual abuse, the trauma that lies within, and the way it shapes their relationship and inherited fear. Awards won: DOK Leipzig (2022); Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (2023); Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2023).

Le Roi n’est pas mon cousin (The King is Not My Cousin)
Dir: Annabelle Aventurin | 2022 | France, Guadeloupe | 30’ | French & Guadeloupean Creole

Author of “Sunny Karukera, stranded Guadeloupe” (1980), Elzéa De Aventurin indulges, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together they trace, not without malice, a family history, sailing from one end of the black Atlantic to the other. A story of silences, pride and revolt.

Conspiracy Class
Dir: Katarina Springate | 2022 | UK | 25’ | English

Conspiracy Classroom' takes us on a conflicting journey into the lives of a community of anti vaxxers who have pulled their children from mainstream education and set up their own facility. Featured in The Times as 'The school training the next generation of conspiracy theorists' this film tells the story of the children in the community. Equal parts horrifying and humorous we will find out exactly what they are teaching and what the future might look like for these children.

Liane Aviram and Damilola Lemomu will host a post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Jake Lancaser, Katrina Springate and Emma van den Berg.

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