| Thu 24 Jun, 7pm
Price: £10 (Early Booking £8) Followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer Evan Williams and Executive Producer Siobhan Sinnerton. Filmed covertly over the course of a year by Burmese cameramen, who risked an instant 30-year jail sentence if caught, Orphans of Burma's Cyclone exposes the official intransigence of one of the world's most brutal and secretive regimes and reveals what day-to-day life is like for the ordinary people of Burma.   Fri 25 Jun, 7pm Price: £10 (Early Booking £8) Followed by a Q&A with Director Jamie Doran. A controversial and colourful one-hour documentary, Africa Rising highlights the failure of Western policies and asks if it's time to reconsider the role of Western aid workers on the continent.  Sun 27 Jun, 4pm
Price: £10 (Early Booking £8)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Dariusz Jabłoński. This is a story about a man historians consider the most important spy of the Cold War. The main character of Dariusz Jabloński's new documentary is Ryszard Kukliński, a colonel in headquarters of the Polish Army who between 1972 and 1981 handed over more than 40 thousand pages of the top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the West. Mon 28 Jun, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (Early Booking £10)
The Japan we know from films and TV is one of tradition, high technology and pop culture. But as with every nation, something more sinister lies beneath the bright lights of Sony and Nintendo. With an expert panel including Jake Adelsteain author of Tokyo Vice, we'll investigate the problem of organised crime in Japan and cast a light on the media's reporting of it. Tue 29 Jun, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (Early Booking £10)
Gary Younge and Afua Hirsch of the Guardian will be discussing his new book Who Are We - and Should it Matter in the 21st Century? which takes in Sarah Palin, Tiger Woods and the Danish cartoon controversy and calls for the differences between us to be talked about "properly". Fri 2nd July 7pm
Price: £10 (Early Booking £8)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Tim Albone and Afghan Cricket Coach Taj Malik An inspirational documentary following the extraordinary quest of the Afghan cricket team to qualify for the 2011 World Cup. Against a backdrop of war and poverty, Out of the Ashes, traces the remarkable journey of a team of young Afghans as they chase a seemingly impossible dream.
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