Cinema Versa

Cinema Versa assembles a truly diverse array of incredible new documentaries as the world opens up again to face a vast range of new challenges. Candidates for non-fiction film of the year include Flee, an animated Danish odyssey about a migrant’s journey from Afghanistan and Mr Bachmann and His Class, a patiently observed portrait of an inspirational German teacher. Leading British director Andrea Arnold makes her first documentary feature with empathetic and moving Cow and the inimitable cinephile Mark Cousins returns with The Story of Film: A New Generation.

Inspiring tales of activism and resistance proliferate in The New Corporation, Unapologetic and Dear Future Children and The Ants and the Grasshopper offers new perspectives on the responses to climate change. Transform! is a brilliant new film about disability and dance and there are a great clutch of new music docs led by I Get Knocked Down featuring homegrown Leeds heroes, Chumbawumba.