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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters joins team of new Palestinian resistance documentary

Freedom Theatre — Directed by Rishi Pelham, the film spotlights a theatre operating in the Jenin refugee camp.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
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Rab’s adventures on film at Love Trails Festival

Adventure Film Night — Taking place between July 2-6, Rab are screening six documentaries at the festival that explore the remarkable world of the adventure sport community.

  • Sport
  • Roxana Diba

A portrait of the UK’s oldest boxing club

Learning the Ropes — A new documentary by Ryan Pickard chronicles the hard-edged history of Repton Boxing Club in Bethnal Green, while asking poignant questions about the present and future of the sport in the UK.

  • Sport
  • Sydney Lobe

New film spotlights London’s Bubble Club, the party by people with learning disabilities

Radically inclusive clubbing — Produced by Muddled Marauders and currently fundraising for completion, the feature documentary focuses on the inclusive night, which has been in operation since 2005.

  • Music
  • Roxana Diba
Sophie Green

Sophie Green’s maximalist, technicolour vision of Britain’s fringes

Tangerine Dreams — The photographer has spent over a decade documenting the rituals, subcultures and social gatherings that form the collaged fabric of the UK’s society. A new exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation celebrates her work and the communities she captures.

  • Culture
  • Roxana Diba
© Tahnei Roy

Jack Johnson’s third act

SURFILMUSIC — Three decades on from his trajectory-altering crash at Pipeline and subsequent music career, the singer-songwriter looks back at his life and work in a new, expansive film.

  • Music
  • D’Arcy Doran

New film champions women surfers tackling the huge waves of Nazaré

Undercurrents — Filmmaker Maddie Meddings’ latest documentary focuses on big-wave superstar Laura Crane as she helps prepare 16-year-old Imari Hearn to take up big wave surfing.

  • Sport
  • Sydney Lobe

New documentary spotlights Brixton’s community in the face of gentrification

Beyond Brix & Mortar — With property prices rising by 1,700% since the ’80s, the film explores the rich cultural history of the area’s Afro-Caribbean community, and the threat to the area’s soul.

  • Activism
  • Sydney Lobe

Louis Theroux’s ‘Manosphere’ shows men aren’t the problem, platforms are

No Ws for Good Men — The journalist’s new documentary sees him dive headfirst into the toxicities and machinations of the male influencer economy. But when young creators are monetarily incentivised to make more and more outrageous content, who really is to blame?

  • Culture
  • Emma Garland

The wild, gruelling beauty of fell running

Winner Gets Cake — With no marked route and often brutal conditions, the “quintessentially British sport” is the subject of a new joint film by TCO and Rab. Hannah Bentley explores its vertical climbs, downhill dashes and punk roots.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Bentley
© Ania Winiarska

New documentary explores football ultras culture around the world

ULTRAS — Directed by Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner, the film takes an insider’s view of the terrace subculture, and the unifying power of fandom.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

The vibrant pre-Taliban ski community deep in the Afghan mountains

Champions of the Golden Valley — A bittersweet documentary by Ben Sturgulewski spotlights the unlikely rise of Bamyan Ski Club, while charting what happened next for skiers forced to flee their country.

  • Sport
  • Sam Haddad

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