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Featured
Aug 27, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM15:30 – 17:00
Hotel Garibaldi - Life in the Waiting Room
Aug 27, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM15:30 – 17:00

Hotel Garibaldi offers a glimpse into migrant life in an increasingly acerbic social and political climate. Sophia Seymour and Daisy Squires follow four west African migrants as they attempt to avoid the very real risks posed by the mafia, the sex trade, slavery and the prospect of a watery grave.

Aug 27, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM15:30 – 17:00
Aug 27, 2018
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM14:15 – 15:15
Time Travelling in the Italian Alps - New Myths to Live by
Aug 27, 2018
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM14:15 – 15:15

From one utopia to another. Allow yourself to be spirited away to Damanhur, a self-styled, autonomous paradise in the Italian Alps. Author and some time Damanhur resident David Bramwell gives the inside perspective on the communes secrets as he presents time travel, singing plants and sojourns in Atlantis.

Aug 27, 2018
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM14:15 – 15:15
Aug 27, 2018
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM13:40 – 14:00
Unconditional Love
Aug 27, 2018
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM13:40 – 14:00

"The Fireflies" (an amateur cycling group) tackle the toughest peaks in Europe every year to raise money for leukaemia charity Bloodwise. Nick Mason has directed a gruelling short film documenting the sheer grit and effort that it takes to master the treacherous Alpine route.

Aug 27, 2018
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM13:40 – 14:00
Aug 27, 2018
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM13:00 – 13:30
Face to Face with Isis
Aug 27, 2018
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM13:00 – 13:30

Stacey Dooley returns to Iraq to seek justice for the young women whose lives have been changed forever by Isis

Aug 27, 2018
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM13:00 – 13:30
Aug 27, 2018
11:15 AM – 1:30 PM11:15 – 13:30
Groundswell: The Grassroots battle for the NHS
Aug 27, 2018
11:15 AM – 1:30 PM11:15 – 13:30

“GROUNDSWELL” is a moving documentary about ordinary Britons challenging the free marketeers’ annexation of the NHS and their 40-year dominance.

Aug 27, 2018
11:15 AM – 1:30 PM11:15 – 13:30
Aug 26, 2018
8:15 PM – 9:45 PM20:15 – 21:45
Syria's Disappeared: The case against Assad
Aug 26, 2018
8:15 PM – 9:45 PM20:15 – 21:45

Sara Afshar is a BAFTA-nominated director, with over 20 years' experience as a journalist and filmmaker. Here, she tells the story of the tens of thousands of Syrians who disappeared under the Assad regime.

Aug 26, 2018
8:15 PM – 9:45 PM20:15 – 21:45
Aug 26, 2018
5:45 PM – 8:00 PM17:45 – 20:00
The Confession
Aug 26, 2018
5:45 PM – 8:00 PM17:45 – 20:00

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg recounts his experiences at the hands of “the war on terror”. The Confession considers modern Jihad and the nature of life as a British Muslim in 2018.

Aug 26, 2018
5:45 PM – 8:00 PM17:45 – 20:00
Aug 26, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM15:30 – 17:30
The Last Animals
Aug 26, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM15:30 – 17:30

Follow the people who go to all lengths to save the planet’s last animals. From scientists to activists and Africa’s front lines to behind the scenes of Asian markets to the United States The Last Animals takes an intense look at the global response to this slaughter and the desperate measures to genetically rescue the Northern White rhinos who are on the edge of extinction.

Aug 26, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM15:30 – 17:30
Aug 26, 2018
1:00 PM – 3:15 PM13:00 – 15:15
Invisible Britain - Sleaford Mods
Aug 26, 2018
1:00 PM – 3:15 PM13:00 – 15:15

Part band doc, part critique of the state of the nation, Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain follows the un-compromising Nottingham band as they travel the nation articulating the rage and desperation of the marginalised in austerity Britain. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Paul Sng and Lisa McKenzie

Aug 26, 2018
1:00 PM – 3:15 PM13:00 – 15:15
Aug 26, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM10:30 – 12:45
Copwatch
Aug 26, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM10:30 – 12:45

Co-founder of Copwatch Jacob Crawford and director Camilla Hall bring you the story of the “Cop Watchers” dedicated to bringing awareness to their community and exposing police brutality/harassment. They are legally recording/documenting each arrest but often find themselves to be the victims of chaos. Jacob, Camilla, Imran Azam and Alistair Morgan will take part in a panel discussion after the screening.

Aug 26, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM10:30 – 12:45
Aug 25, 2018
7:45 PM – 9:15 PM19:45 – 21:15
Death Dinner
Aug 25, 2018
7:45 PM – 9:15 PM19:45 – 21:15

Rose Rouse and Suzanne Noble’s work takes a sideways look at the inescapable topic of mortality. By turns poignant, joyful, humorous and enlightening.

Aug 25, 2018
7:45 PM – 9:15 PM19:45 – 21:15
Aug 25, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30
Life inside a refugee camp: Stories from the ground
Aug 25, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30

Jaz and Nils O'hara, former residents of the "Calais Jungle" and co-founders of The Worldwide Tribe talk life inside the camps and working in the humanitarian sector.

Aug 25, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30
Aug 25, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45
Armageddon Gospels
Aug 25, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45

FoolishPeople are bringing their second feature length offering to the festival. Immerse yourself in a dreamscape of mythical imagery and gods made flesh as director John Harrigan presents a cautionary tale of the future of a nation losing touch with its identity.

Aug 25, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45
Aug 25, 2018
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM14:45 – 15:30
Battle For Mosul
Aug 25, 2018
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM14:45 – 15:30

Battle for Mosul has earned multiple Emmy nominations. Join the action as Iraqi forces attempt to retake Mosul from Isis, Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad joins their elite Golden Division on the frontline to examine the fight and its toll. Director Josh Baker participates in a Q&A after the screening.

Aug 25, 2018
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM14:45 – 15:30
Aug 25, 2018
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM12:30 – 14:30
Invisible Britain - Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Aug 25, 2018
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM12:30 – 14:30

Representing the nations unheard voices Invisible Britain expose the social housing scandal and the unsavory unseen forces that guide policy in Dispossession. Renewal, demolition, and development are the key themes in a story that centers the human consequences of a chronic affordable housing shortage. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Paul Sng, Lisa McKenzie, Pam Douglas and Cash Carraway.

Aug 25, 2018
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM12:30 – 14:30
Aug 25, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM10:30 – 12:15
Right Between your Ears
Aug 25, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM10:30 – 12:15

At the confluence of belief, psychology and neuroscience sits Right Between your Ears, an investigation into the nature of conviction with reflections on society’s increasing polarisation, our own entrenched beliefs and post-truth politics.

Aug 25, 2018
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM10:30 – 12:15
Aug 24, 2018
7:45 PM – 10:30 PM19:45 – 22:30
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Aug 24, 2018
7:45 PM – 10:30 PM19:45 – 22:30

Byline Festival is proud to present a screening of one of 2018’s most critically-acclaimed films, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, followed by a Q&A with the film’s Director of Photography, Ben Davis.

Aug 24, 2018
7:45 PM – 10:30 PM19:45 – 22:30
Aug 24, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30
Smartphone Video - Mightier than the Pen
Aug 24, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30

Filmmaker Imran Azam shares his wealth of experience as he explores the rise of the power of the smartphone video, the origins of home video-story telling and the elements of a compelling video narrative.

Aug 24, 2018
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM18:00 – 19:30
Aug 24, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45
Trumping Democracy
Aug 24, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45

The Conspiracy behind the US Election explored. Thomas Huchon talks Robert Mercer, Breitbart news and Cambridge Analytica.

Aug 24, 2018
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM15:45 – 17:45
Aug 24, 2018
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM14:30 – 15:30
Our World, Ukraine's Frontline Bakery
Aug 24, 2018
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM14:30 – 15:30

The war in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed rebels and the Ukrainian army has killed more than 10,000 people over four years, and peace remains a distant prospect. Despite the violence a new bakery has opened which brings some comfort and sustenance to war-weary locals.

Aug 24, 2018
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM14:30 – 15:30

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