Cinema Versa

Some of the most exciting and innovative documentaries of the year representing a broad range of styles and subjects.

We present UK premieres of Trans Memoria, Swedish artist and filmmaker Victoria Verseau’s poetic and perceptive diary film about her experiences of gender-affirming surgery in Thailand.

How to Build a Truth Engine interrogates the information battlefield in a post-truth world with a diverse range of different experts. Two very different films use archive footage in innovative ways, Billy, an intimate and complex portrait of a man with schizophrenia, and It Was All a Dream, a feminist music journalist’s inside view of the formative years of hip hop.

Elsewhere, in Grand Theft Hamlet two out of work actors try to stage a version of Hamlet entirely within the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Alex Ross Perry pushes the boundaries with the music documentary in Pavements and The Stimming Pool is a startlingly original artistic representation of the way neurodivergent people interact with the world.

Films at LIFF 2024