Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of non-fiction cinema. Based at the UCL Centre for Public Anthropology, it delivers training programmes, an annual documentary festival, the bi-annual Non-Fiction journal and events throughout the year that aim to challenge and expand the idea of documentary in all its forms.

The 2022 Open City Documentary Festival runs from 7 to 13 September 2022.

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NEWS

Open City Documentary Festival announces full programme for 12th edition

INTERVIEW

«We will never take for granted how wonderful it is to be able to be together, in person, in a cinema»

Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director María Palacios Cruz on the first post-pandemic edition, as well as her own introductions to creative documentaries and more.

FILMS

Camouflage

Director: Jonathan Perel

A son's search for meaning at the site of a former Argentinian concentration camp where his mother «disappeared» in the 1970s.

Come on Pilgrim

Director: Marcy Saude

Slavery, conquest and questionable colonial motives.

Crossing Voices

Director: Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré

Charting the French civil rights movement and the interwoven anti-colonial liberation struggles on the African continent through the life of activist and photographer, Bouba Touré.

Foragers

Director: Jumana Manna

The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.