Matthew Scholes

Directed by Sean McAllister

Winner of 2015 Sheff Doc/Fest Grand Jury award, Winner of 2016 Berlinale Cinema for Peace Refugee award, The Guardian's 3rd best film of 2015, BAFTA nominee for outstanding debut, BIFA nominee for best documentary.

For 14 years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have journeyed together through war and storytelling. Their bond was forged on the frontlines of revolution where their cameras recorded terror and hope, laughter and heartbreak – moments that defined a generation.

Years later, their story takes an unexpected turn. Confined inside a UK asylum hotel, Hasan and Fadi document a new chapter shaped not by bombs, but by waiting, bureaucracy, and exile. Amid rising anti-refugee hostility, they turn the camera inward exploring friendship and displacement and how filming itself becomes an act of survival when the future is so uncertain.

Commissioned through the IFFR Displacement fund, headed by Cate Blanchett.

Directed by award winning filmmakers Ed Owles and Jaime Taylor, H is for Harry is a feature documentary set against the backdrop of a Britain riven with debates around class, identity and social mobility. The film follows Harry over two years as he fights not only to improve academically but also to believe in a different future for himself.

Fadia, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, is stranded by history on the wrong side of the border. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she makes a grand and personal request: to find the ancient mulberry tree next to her grandfather’s house in Sa'sa, northern Palestine.