The Body Is a Battlefield

Travel from the outside world to the physical realm with these moving, deeply intimate documentaries centring the bodily experience of being human.

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Careless

In a country where ageing has become a business, this funny, moving documentary follows elderly people’s fight to grow old their way.

Dir. Sue Thomson / 2025 / 88 mins / Australia / English
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Come See Me in the Good Light

From darkness into light, this poetic documentary brings us to the brink of what it means to love.

Dir. Ryan White / 2025 / 109 mins / USA / English
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GEN_

The humanity and diversity of trans people and those undergoing IVF are foregrounded in this intimate documentary centred on a passionate doctor.

Dir. Gianluca Matarrese / 2025 / 104 mins / France, Italy, Switzerland / Italian
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Ghost Boy

A SXSW award-winning documentary about one man whose body became a prison, and how he found a way out.

Dir. Rodney Ascher / 2025 / 91 mins / UK, South Africa / English
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Sanatorium

War rages outside, but within the walls of an ex-Soviet spa in Ukraine, the health kick continues.
Dir. Gar O’Rourke / 2025 / 90 mins / France, Ukraine, Ireland / Ukrainian
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The Secret of Me

A stirring, revelatory documentary that threads one intersex person’s journey of self-discovery with an exposé of widespread medical mistreatment.

Dir. Grace Hughes-Hallett / 2025 / 97 mins / UK / English