DocHouse

29/09/2026

What do you do when your neighbour goes completely wild? 🚜

Two Devon farmers, both named Derek, have taken radically different approaches to land use. Between their (untrimmed) hedgerows, intensive farming rubs up against a full rewilding project, in this funny and timely film.

Derek vs Derek shines a light on the vital debate surrounding the future of rural Britain, encouraging conversation around how farming and nature restoration might work together. Screens from 16 Oct.

28/09/2026

Christine Choy is our : https://dochouse.org/filmmaker-focus-christine-choy/

This October, discover the work of pioneering Asian American filmmaker Christine Choy (1952 - 2025), whose camera tracked labour, incarceration, immigration and liberation in the U.S for half a century. In the early 1970s, Choy and fellow filmmakers created Third World Newsreel (TWN), a production company that highlighted social justice stories that weren’t being told in mainstream media.

Her films explore the little-shown experience of East and Southeast Asian immigrants to the US. Giving voice to workers, community leaders and refugees, the films were unusual for their focus and candour at the time, and are still strikingly humanistic testaments to the complexity of the immigrant experience.

Oscar-nominated and honoured in the Library of Congress, Choy dedicated her career to documenting the stories left out by the official record. Ahead of our retrospective of her work, we look back at her legacy in the activist filmmaking and documentary world.

Join us for a double bill of Choy’s shorts on Wednesday 14 October and for her newly restored 1984 film, Mississippi Triangle on 17 October.

27/09/2026

Photographer, freedom fighter and activist Kwame Brathwaite devoted his 60-year career to celebrating the joy and beauty of African American life.

Starting in Harlem in the 1950s, Kwame Brathwaite took half a million photos including many of ‘regular’ people on the street but also thousands of intimate and unexpected photos of stars including Stevie Wonder, Muhammad Ali, Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and the Jackson Five.

At a time when this was deemed radical, Kwame’s photos of Black communities and people focused on beauty and joy instead of trauma and conflict.

Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story opens Fri 9 Oct.

25/09/2026

“I’ve spent much of my life making films which give glimpses into humanity’s darker sides, but I feel we also need stories that celebrate our commonalities and pull us together – probably now more than ever!” - Orlando von Einsiedel

The Cycle of Love follows the extraordinary story of PK and Lotta. In 1977, PK, a young street artist from Delhi, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile journey to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart.

We caught up with Orlando von Einsiedel, director of The Cycle of Love, to discuss how he brought such an intimate story to the big screen, and why stories about love feel more important than ever in our current times.

Read the full interview on our blog.

We caught up with the director of The Cycle of Love to discuss how he brought such an intimate story to the big screen and why stories about love feel more important than ever in our current times.

24/09/2026

Wu-Tang Clan’s seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, was recorded in secret over six years, sealed in an ornate silver case, and first sold at a 2015 auction for a reported $2 million, under terms barring any commercial release until 2103.

In The Disciple, director Joanna Natasegara tells the story of the album’s unlikely origins and controversial reception. We meet Tarik Azzougharh, the Dutch-Moroccan superfan who talked his way into Wu-Tang Clan’s inner circle and became the driving force of the now legendary album.

The Disciple screens from 9 Oct.

23/09/2026

Boorman and the Devil details how Academy Award-nominated director John Boorman took on the massive 1977 sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic.

He turned down standard horror tropes for a high-budget, metaphysical misfire that became one of Hollywood’s most famous box-office disasters.

Screens 4 Oct.

23/09/2026

'A profoundly moving work, one that will resonate with anyone who is a parent or close to a troubled kid, but one that has so much more about the making of art, its joys and its dishonesties. It lingers in the mind long after the tears have dried.' - Guardian film

Remake is showing at Bertha DocHouse from Friday.

Celebrated documentary maker Ross McElwee revisits footage of his late son for this profoundly moving tribute and meditation on making art

22/09/2026

Extreme ambition meets devastating consequence. 🏔️

Focusing on a 2021 expedition, The Last First: Winter K2 tells a complex, harrowing and moving story that takes an unflinching look at the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its changing culture.

It reveals a surprising and layered story – one of strategy and determination, class and caste, money and power – all under life-and-death circumstances.

Opens Fri 2 Oct.

21/09/2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A remarkable tribute to Adrian, poignant and precise' - Little White Lies

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee crafts a layered and heartfelt letter to his late son Adrian.

The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone. Drawing from decades of footage, some shot by Ross, some by Adrian, the film becomes a layered excavation of memory and image-making.

'While Sherman’s March looks forward, Remake is McElwee’s look back, at age 78, at a life that has been disrupted by tragedy. These two masterpieces, separated by four decades, prove that McElwee is one of our essential filmmakers.' - Screen Slate

Remake screens from 25 Sep.

19/09/2026

When the British colonised Kenya, they took control of prime tea-growing land, stripping Kikuyu people of Central Kenya of their lands and cultural identity. The plantations are still owned by some of the world’s biggest corporations, supplying the global market, with local Kenyans left to labour under abusive conditions on their own ancestral soil.

When Nairobi journalist Bea follows a local man’s legal challenge to retrieve his family’s stolen land, she discovers a murky world of hidden evidence and untold wounds. Set against the beautifully captured richness of the landscape, Kikuyu Land is a poetic, stunningly cinematic dive into a complex history.

Screens 3 Oct. Followed by a Q&A with co-director and protagonist Bea Wangondu.