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News: Open City Documentary Festival – Online Archive

This year’s festival will be our tenth edition. Ahead of the festival, we had been thinking about ways we could commemorate and celebrate the nine editions that preceded it. While at the moment, this, like many activities, seems somewhat of a strange thing to be doing, looking wistfully back to the past rather than worrying about the future has felt like a nice thing to do. Browsing through all those previous festivals, and thinking about the filmmakers and artists that attended and the films that were showcased, we thought it might be useful to consolidate what we found.

Below, please enjoy a (fairly comprehensive but probably incomplete) list of every short, mid or feature-length film that we found that is available to watch online at home via a streaming platform, either for free or through a video-on-demand service (in the UK). Many great films that were screened are not accessible in this fashion, but as you can see below, lots are. For those at home looking for something to watch right now or sometime later, find plentiful options below.

If you are an alumni filmmaker and we missed your film, please let us know and we will add it below.

Open City Documentary Festival 2011

Alda (Viera Cakanyova, 2009. 52′) [dafilms]
Armadillo (Janus Metz, 2010, 105′) [Amazon]
Billie (Ana Pinheiro, 2010, 18′) [FREE]
Bitter Lemon (Nazmun Nakeb, 2010, ?’) [FREE]
Blood in the Mobile (Frank Piasecki Poulsen, 2011, 82′) [Amazon]
Calling Home (Shadman Alvi, 2010, 4′) [FREE]
Cheonggyecheon Medley: A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, 2010, 79′) [Vimeo on Demand]
Cigarette Break (Jan Kwiecinski, 2010, 12′) [FREE]
Cocaine Unwrapped (Rachel Seifert, 2011, 83′) [Google Play]
Come Closer (Peter Mackie Burns, 2011, 86′) [FREE]
Diary (Tim Hetherington, 2010, 19′) [FREE]
El Sicario – Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi, 2010, 81′) [dafilms]
Guru (Tamas Toth, 2010, 71′) [FREE]
How to Make a Book with Steidl (Gereon Wetzel, Joerg Adolph, 2010, 87′) [Vimeo on Demand]
I Shot My Love (Tomer Heymann, 2009, 71′) [Vimeo on Demand]
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010, 75′) [Amazon]
Katka (Helena Trestikova, 2009, 90′) [dafilms]
Kazik and the Kommanders Car (Hannah Lovell, 2010, 23′) [FREE]
Lost Land (Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, 2011, 75′) [dafilms]
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008, 94′) [Google Play]
Metrobranding – A Love Story Between Man and Objects (Ana Viad, Adi Voicu, 2010, 91′) [dafilms]
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927, 153′) [Google Play]
Mothersbane (Jason Jakaitis, 2010, 10′) [FREE]
My Dream (Md. Rezwan Ali Khan, 2010, 4′) [FREE]
My Kidnapper (Mark Henderson, 2010, 62′) [FREE]
Nobody Knows from Nobody (Dieter Deswarte, 2010, 24′) [FREE]
On the Streets (Penny Woolcock, 2009. 100′) [FREE]
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times (Andrew Rossi, 2011, 87) [Google Play]
Restrepo (Sebastien Junger, Tim Hetherington, 2010, 89′) [Google Play]
Shelter in Place (Zed Nelson, 2009, 47′) [Google Play]
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985, 274′) [BFI Player]
Steel Homes (Eva Weber, 2009, 10′) [FREE]
Surpriseville (Tim Travers Hawkins, 2010, 10′) [FREE]
The Arrivals (Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard, 2009, 111′) [dafilms]
The Cage (Adrian Sitaru, 2010, 17′) [FREE]
The Curse of the Hedgehog (Dumitru Budrala, 2004, 93′) [dafilms]
The Day We Danced on the Moon (Tristan Daws, 2011, 9′) [FREE]
The Dog Hill (Grzegorz Zariczny, 2010, 39′) [FREE]
The Flaw (David Sington, 2011, 81′) [Google Play]
The Fold (Paula Noya, Ivan Del Rey De La Torre, 2009, 5′) [FREE]
The Fourth Man (Krzysztof Kasior, 2010, 20′) [FREE]
The Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009, 97′) [Vimeo on Demand]
The Parking Lot Movie (Meghan Eckman, 2010, 70′) [iTunes]
The Woman with the Five Elephants (Vadim Jendreyko, 2009. 93′) [Google Play]
Village Without Women (Srdjan Sarenac, 2010, 81′) [Google Play]
War Don Don (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 2010, 85′) [Google Play]
Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2011, 91′) [Google Play]