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Real to Reel: A Documentary Showcase to

This program brings together five stories that aim to explore the range and depths of the documentary genre - showcasing diverse filmmaking and storytelling techniques possible, from gripping investigative journalism to heartwarming human portraits, these documentaries shine a light on extraordinary real-life narratives and illuminate untold histories.

Featuring critically acclaimed documentary films such as the 2025 Academy Award - Best Documentary Winner No Other Land, and Academy Awardnominees Black Box Diaries (2025), Flee (2022), and festival favourites like Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023) and The Sinking of Lisbon Maru (2024).

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Black Box DiariesNC16

TW: This film has themes on sexual assault.

BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.

Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

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No Other LandR21

Rated: R21

-SOLD OUT-

Final Screening on 1 August 2025

Location: Cineleisure

2025 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary feature

Fundraiser Screening

55% of ticket sales proceeds will be donated to the Palestinian Scholarship Initiative.

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, being forcefully displaced by Israel‘s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist, Yuval, who wants to join his fight.

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