Returning with another provocative, penetrating array of non-fiction films, The Open City Documentary Festival is setting up camp at London cinemas this spring. Barbican, Bertha DocHouse, Close-Up Film Centre, Curzon Soho, Genesis Cinema, ICA and even Tate Modern are all hosting the best in documentary filmmaking from around the world.
This year’s edition will show 101 films and four Expanded Realities projects, from 21 different countries, including five world premieres and 16 UK premieres. The festival kicks off with Siticulosa by Maeve Brennan, a dreamy film that explores the relationship between archaeology, geology and agriculture in the Puglian landscape. Also on the bill is Moving Statics, a retrospective of the works of Australian filmmaking couple Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, newly restored films by pioneering Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab, and a performance by Maxime Jean-Baptiste at Tate Modern.