DocHouse Shorts: Future Present

Bertha DocHouse is the UK's first cinema dedicated solely to documentary.We screen the best new releases, festival favourites, retrospective titles and curated seasons providing an exciting platform for documentary filmmakers and nurturing a new generation of doc lovers.With a programme packed with filmmaker Q&As, masterclasses, discussions, special events and an online hub accessible from anywhere in the world, Bertha DocHouse is the home of documentary.

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Join us for a free online film screening featuring three short docs that explore our relationship to AI.

As the new superpower of AI grows and re-shapes our lives, this programme of short-but-perfectly-formed-docs brings into question the role we play as enablers of this existentially challenging technology.ProgrammeOur Ark | Netherlands, USA | dir. Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton | 13′A gray lizard with yellow spots sits quietly on a tree stump, as digital cameras revolve around it. Click, click, click—the lizard is captured from every angle. Our Ark begins with a company that is making 3D copies of every animal on Earth—starting with the endangered species. A kind of virtual Noah’s ark.Uncanny Me | Germany | dir. Katharina Pethke | 45′Lale is a hard-working photo model. She spends all her time creating a robotic form of perfection, and on her way between photo sessions and hotel rooms, she wonders if there is still any space left for the real Lale. But now she’s discovered a way to get more freedom, she explains to her mother. She can get her body scanned to create a digital clone that can also become a model, in the virtual world. But what if this avatar starts living a life of its own? Before leaping into the abyss, she decides to find out more about the moral and other implications.Beneath Which Rivers Flow | Iraq | dir. Ali Yahya | 16′In the marshlands of Southern Iraq, Ibrahim and his family live in solitude as strangers to the outside world, their lives tethered to the river, the reeds, and the buffalo they tend. Silent and withdrawn, Ibrahim finds comfort only in his buffalo, his sole companion. But as the rivers dry and the landscape withers, Ibrahim faces unrelenting forces threatening the only life he has ever known, and the only creature he has ever understood.This screening has been made accessible for free but if you would like to support the filmmakers please donate while booking your ticket and 100% of the income will be given to the filmmakers.HOW TO WATCH: The screening will be available on our custom-built streaming site to watch from 20/04/26 10:00 BST until 26/04/26 23:30 BST. Please note this screening is only available to watch in the UK.Once you have registered to attend, you will receive an email on the day of the event with further details about how to access our streaming site. If you are a Gmail user, please consider moving our emails to your Primary tab.

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