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Bertha DocHouse

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The home of documentary. Based at @CurzonBbury, we're the UK's only cinema dedicated to documentary.

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In a forgotten neighbourhood of Palermo, three kids turn an abandoned building into a secret shelter, escaping the violence of the outside world & sharing their dreams. #ItalianDocSeason THE CASTLE on Sat, 5 July 3.30pm +Q&A w directors dochouse.org/event/italian-… Bertha DocHouse

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Last week, we were joined by filmmaker Petra Costa and TheDocSociety's Beadie Finzi for a Q&A screening of Apocalypse in the Tropics. They spoke about how religion is infiltrating politics in Brazil. You can watch the full Q&A on our website: dochouse.org/sheffield-docf…

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Following an all-female theatre troupe over 4 years, The Brink of Dreams is a touching expression of creativity & sisterhood within patriarchal structures of rural Egypt. After its UK Premiere at #SAFARFilmFestival, The Brink of Dreams shows from 18 Jul bit.ly/4l0JsoV

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"Beat the Lotto review – how a small-time accountant tried to outwit Ireland’s national lottery" - The Guardian Showing at Bertha DocHouse from Friday. bit.ly/BtLdh theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/…

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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes is an intimate look at a pioneering, openly gay artist, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. Join us for a director Q&A on Sun 13 Jul. bit.ly/HMGPL

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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse captures the notorious making of one of the best films ever made, Apocalypse Now. Ahead of its re-release at DocHouse on Friday, we take a look at four docs about filmmaking. Read more on our blog: bit.ly/4ev8cTP

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse captures the notorious making of one of the best films ever made, Apocalypse Now. 

Ahead of its re-release at DocHouse on Friday, we take a look at four docs about filmmaking. Read more on our blog: bit.ly/4ev8cTP
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Our next #SheffDocFestSpotlights event is A State of Passion: A powerful account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Sheffield DocFest Tue 29 Jul + Q&A bit.ly/aSoPbdh

Our next #SheffDocFestSpotlights event is A State of Passion: A powerful account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza. 
<a href="/sheffdocfest/">Sheffield DocFest</a> 
 
Tue 29 Jul + Q&amp;A bit.ly/aSoPbdh
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A raw and personal documentary portrait of pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis P-Orridge. S/he is Still Her/e: Genesis P-Orridge shows on Tue 8 Jul. bit.ly/3FLazVN

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Lottery hijinks in ’90s Ireland, a behind-the-scenes look at the chaotic Apocalypse Now shoot and a celebration of Italian documentary - coming up this weekend! Opening 💸 Beat the Lotto 🚁 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse Events 🇮🇹 Italian Doc Season

Lottery hijinks in ’90s Ireland, a behind-the-scenes look at the chaotic Apocalypse Now shoot and a celebration of Italian documentary - coming up this weekend!

Opening
💸 Beat the Lotto
🚁 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

Events
🇮🇹 Italian Doc Season
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Italian Doc Season returns this weekend! 🇮🇹 In GEN_, a maverick doctor defies government restrictions; in The Castle, a group of kids build their dream world in an abandoned kindergarten. And Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari is an epic docu-encyclopaedia. bit.ly/ItalianDocsBDH

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Latin America's political and social history gives the shocking context to today's deadly fight against agribusiness across the region, in this piercing, personal investigation. Green is the New Red shows on Sun 3 Aug. bit.ly/GITNRbdh

Latin America's political and social history gives the shocking context to today's deadly fight against agribusiness across the region, in this piercing, personal investigation.

Green is the New Red shows on Sun 3 Aug. bit.ly/GITNRbdh
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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes reveals the lesser known life of America' s first openly gay artist. We're joined by director Sam Shahid for a Q&A next Sun. Each attendee will receive a postcard pack featuring 8 Platt Lynes' photographs. bit.ly/HMGPL

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes reveals the lesser known life of America' s first openly gay artist. We're joined by director Sam Shahid for a Q&amp;A next Sun. 

Each attendee will receive a postcard pack featuring 8 Platt Lynes' photographs. bit.ly/HMGPL
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Marking the film’s 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting George Amponsah’s The Hard Stop, a powerful documentary that follows two of Mark Duggan’s friends in the aftermath of his racially charged killing by police. Wed 6 Aug, 18:20 + Q&A with Amponsah. bit.ly/THS-bdh

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Three films by French documentarian Nicolas Philibert offer a warm, empathetic and humorous portrait of the unsung heroes of the social care system in Paris. Join us on Sat 26 + Sun 27 Jul for the first time the triptych has been shown together in the UK. bit.ly/46ljWGi

Three films by French documentarian Nicolas Philibert offer a warm, empathetic and humorous portrait of the unsung heroes of the social care system in Paris.

Join us on Sat 26 + Sun 27 Jul for the first time the triptych has been shown together in the UK. bit.ly/46ljWGi
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As the UK's new anti-protest laws are enacted, The Line We Crossed follows climate activists who cross the line into civil disobedience. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the unravelling of our protest rights. Q&A on 23 Jul bit.ly/TLWCbdh

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"As we documented what was happening, it became clear that the evangelical presence was so omnipresent, from the favelas to the halls of power" Petra Costa spoke to #CurzonJournal about her new film Watch Apocalypse in the Tropics at DocHouse from 11 Jul. curzon.com/journal/apocal…

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Due to popular demand, this Friday's screening of #Holloway + discussion has been moved to a bigger screen. Panel includes director Daisy-May Hudson, co-creator Mandy Ogunmokun, Denise Marshall (Birth Companions) and Dr Laura Abbott (Lost Mothers). bit.ly/HWbdh

Due to popular demand, this Friday's screening of #Holloway + discussion has been moved to a bigger screen. 

Panel includes director Daisy-May Hudson, co-creator Mandy Ogunmokun, Denise Marshall (Birth Companions) and Dr Laura Abbott (Lost Mothers). bit.ly/HWbdh
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"As the portrait of an artist in crisis, Hearts of Darkness is unparalleled." Washington Post Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse captures one of the most notorious film productions of all time: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Showing now bit.ly/HoDFMA

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"Eye-opening... celebrates the American photographer who lived, breathed and captured the shimmering fever dream of NYC’s gay culture in the 1940s and 50s" - The Guardian Join us on Sun for Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes + filmmaker Q&A bit.ly/HMGPL