DOcumentary

We have made award winning theatrically released documentaries that have been screened all around the world. We make films that are un ashamedly political, looking at issues and stories in way others don’t. Alongside developing our own projects, we are looking to work with film makers from all over the world as well as here in the UK.

In Development

En Camino

En Camino is a funny and life-affirming portrait of the most famous pilgrimage in Europe: the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain. Rather than following a single character, this offbeat observational documentary takes the form of a cinematic tapestry with the path itself as a throughline, woven from encounters with an ensemble cast of pilgrims, innkeepers, bartenders, priests, hunters, shepherds, yogis, and a host of other characters we meet along the way.

Directed by Tom Garmeson and Valentin Caride. In late Development 1 x 90’

Gaming the System 1989

The story of early video game hardware and software smuggled from the UK to former Czechoslovakia, where it influenced a unique scene behind the Iron Curtain and commercial products were turned into records of individual experiences and even revolutionary materials that could change the world.

Directed by Erik Richard H
Being developed in collaboration with Varda Pictures

Jungle Nation

The story of an enduring music scene born in the UK, that represented the coming of age for multiculturalism in Britain. Told by the people who started it, dedicated their lives to it and cultivated the culture that surrounded it.

Working with director Will Thorne of Break ‘Em films , this documentary takes a look at one of the UKs most influential music scenes. In early development; more information is available.

Completed Collaboration

Hong Kong: City on Fire

This urgent film beds in with Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrations, offering a front line portrait of four young protesters through a year of struggle. We see their hopes for a freer life and feel their fears as the authorities crack down. Pulse-racing scenes bring the viewer to street level, where peaceful protest is met with fury and tear gas. Clear-eyed about the complications and contradictions that come with a movement that changed Hong Kong forever, it is a brave document of troubled times.

Released nationwide in Odeons in 2022 with the support of Dartmouth Films

Completed

Dying to Divorce

More than one in three Turkish women have experienced domestic violence. The number of femicides is rising. Ipek, a courageous lawyer, is determined to prevent murders by putting abusive partners behind bars. Alongside activists, she fights to get justice for two survivors of horrific violence, against a backdrop of political upheaval.

Filmed over 5 years, the award-winning DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have eroded democratic freedoms. Through intimately shot stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey and tackles the global issue of gender violence.

A collaboration between Producer Sinéad Kirwan and director Chloë Fairweather, this film has won numerous awards, including Bafta Scotland Best Feature, Bafta Wales Best Debut and was selected to be the UK entry to the Oscars. Broadcast by Arte/ Sky Documentaries/ SVT/DR/ NRK. Distributed by Java Films.

More information can be found at dyingtodivorce.com

For screenings contact javafilms.fr/film/dying-to-divorce

Still the Enemy Within

The first collaboration between Sinead, Mark and Owen, Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.

Critically acclaimed, with the Guardian calling it ‘as gripping as a thriller’, the film was released theatrically in the UK, screening in over 100 venues round the country. The film went on to win a prestigious Sheffield International Documentary Award and Focal Award, be Grierson nominated, screened at BAFTA, and inducted by the BFI as a film of historic importance. Also screened around the world in numerous countries, the film is still screened regularly.

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To organise a screening of the film to mark the 40th Anniversary of the strike email info@enemyfilms.co.uk

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