11th BFM International Film Festival 2009

This documentary presents a history of the West Indies through cricket, revealing how clubs across the Caribbean once operated a kind of sporting apartheid.

Friends, family, work and city living are the key themes in this programme of shorts.

South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson traces the lost history of his great-grandfather.

Cry for Mercy is a shocking and revealing documentary which highlights the plight of Nigeria’s abandoned children.

Religion, war, slavery and art – huge themes are deftly, lightly handled in this shorts programme.

This documentary forces us to consider our own part in a problem that will not just go away.

Jerry Downing is a writer trying to get his first novel published and spending his days watching TV.

With the death of her mother, Hewan thought she was going to be able to finally bury the memories of her teenage years in Ethiopia.