7 – 13 September 2022
in London

Film Events

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Join us to celebrate this year's winners at the Open City Documentary Festival Awards Ceremony 2019. Winners will be announced in the following categories: Best UK Short Award Supported by the British Council The Assembly Documentary Development Lab Funding Award Best Emerging International Filmmaker Award The Open City Award Following the ceremony please join us downstairs ... Read More

Open City Documentary Festival Awards Ceremony 2019

Sun 08 Sep, 14:00

Festival Hub Studio

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In partnership with the Analogue Foundation we present an afternoon of attentive listening and conversation played through the highest grade audio equipment. Read More

Sunday Listening Session: Make Some Space

Sun 08 Sep, 16:00

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In Maniitsoq, Greenland, US aluminium giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Read More

Winter’s Yearning + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 18:10

Regent Street Cinema

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A sundrenched portrait of a private beach and water park in the socially disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. Read More

Treasure Island + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 17:15

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Zhao Liang’s magnum opus follows those who, having suffered abuses at the hands of local governments, travel to Beijing to petition the court of complaints Read More

Zhao Liang: Petition + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 16:30

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A triptych of moving tributes from Naomi Kawase create an affectionate portrait of her great-aunt who adopted and raised her. Read More

Naomi Kawase: Katatsumori + See Heaven + Chiri + Intro

Sun 08 Sep, 16:00

Regent Street Cinema

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In these two deeply personal films, Naomi Kawase reflects on her relationship with her father, absent throughout her childhood. Read More

Naomi Kawase: Embracing + Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 13:30

Regent Street Cinema

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The Crosses bravely unearths a dark moment in Chile’s political history that for years had been buried in silence. Read More

The Crosses + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 13:45

Bertha DocHouse

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Railway Line No.1—running along the Mediterranean coast from Tunis to Marrakech—was once the pride of Tunisia. After years of neglect, ‘The Normal Line’ has fallen into disrepair. Read More

Railway Men + Q&A

Sun 08 Sep, 12:40

Prince Charles Cinema

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This walking tour seeks to reveal the hidden structures of the ‘Ring of Steel’ – a security installation around the City of London’s financial district that mirrors the boundary line of the ancient Roman structures of the London Wall. Read More

The Ring of Steel: A Walking Tour Around the City of London

Sun 08 Sep, 11:30

Starting Point: Spitalfields

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Surrounded by a cacophonous city, Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen charts their pursuit of, according to Sachi, their “freedom lives” – an open existence outside of the constant scrutiny and sanction of society and family. Read More

Yeh Freedom Life + Q&A

Sat 07 Sep, 18:35

Regent Street Cinema

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Sabine is a Cameroonian hairdresser who runs a small salon, ‘Jolie Coiffure’, in the Matonge district of Brussels. Read More

Chez Jolie Coiffure + Q&A

Sat 07 Sep, 18:30

Bertha DocHouse

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