The Oscar© shortlist has been announced! And we’re thrilled to have five Dogwoof titles featured on the shortlist, read below to hear more about the films and how you can watch them ahead of the 2025 awards ceremony.
THE BIBI FILES
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage of Netanyahu, his family, his closest associates, and benefactors, Director Alexis Bloom and Oscar-winning Producer Alex Gibney uncover high-level familial corruption and the disastrous lengths a political leader will go to escape accountability. The Bibi Files is a film about a man singularly focused on his own political survival in a region beset by war. Leaked footage from police interrogation videos are interwoven with archival footage that shows Netanyahu’s rise to power, and how his nearly 30-year rule as Prime Minister has divided the state of Israel.
The Bibi Files is screening in selected UK cinemas (book here) and available to watch on demand on major digital platforms:
BLACK BOX DIARIES
Black Box Diaries follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
Black Box Diaries will be available to watch on demand soon - stay tuned!
NO OTHER LAND
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. No Other Land is an unflinching account of a community's mass expulsion and acts as a creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
No Other Land is screening in selected UK cinemas (book here) and available to watch on demand on major digital platforms:
QUEENDOM
Jenna, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and protests the government on the streets of Moscow. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Jenna is only 21. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism. By doing that, she wants to change people’s perception of beauty and queerness and bring attention to the harassment of the LGBTQ+ community.
Queendom is available to watch on demand on major digital platforms:
SUGARCANE
A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life- SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie- is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide.
Sugarcane is available to watch on demand on Disney+.