WAVERIDERS
Long Live Surfing!
We take you to the formidable waters of Ireland with WAVERIDERS, a Joel Conroy documentary that explores surfing’s apparent Irish (not Hawaiian, not Californian!) roots and follows top-notch surfers like Kelly Slater as they bravely take on the menacing waves that almost always fill up the entire height of the movie screen.
The [...]

ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
Another Sunny Day
Come and celebrate the music with us! britspotting 2009 will show you Jonathan Caouette’s documentary ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES which captures the spirit of the ten-year-old correspondent cult music festival.
 
In 1999, the British indie pop band Belle & Sebastian initiated the festival – a counter movement to the big, commercial festivals [...]

SLEEP FURIOUSLY
A Love Letter to Welsh Rural Life
A highlight of recent British Art Cinema – Gideon Koppel’s debut documentary SLEEP FURIOUSLY will be shown at this year’s festival! Moreover, SLEEP FURIOUSLY’S producer Margaret Matheson will be present at britspotting 2009.
In his first documentary, Koppel tells the real-life story of the disappearing farming community in the [...]

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES
An Ex-Love Story
This is a documentary which is one-of-a-kind: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES by director Chris Waitt, which was also part of the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2008.
In his autobiographic documentary, Chris Waitt – who is director and main character at the same [...]

NO GREATER LOVE
The Beauty of Silence
We cordially invite everyone to NO GREATER LOVE, a beautifully shot documentary about the Carmelite nuns in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Notting Hill.
It was only after ten years of correspondence with the Monastery that award-winning film and television director Michael Whyte was allowed to enter [...]