Independent documentaries, particularly in the short film form, are interesting things; being forced to condense can help to make a complex message all the more powerful, or opens exploration of minutiae and details that could never fill an hour of television. Meanwhile the wider indie docs world is awash with niches, unknown stories, buried events, experiments in storytelling and breaking news on issues the rest of the world overlooks or simply doesn't realise is there. Discover the obsessions, situations and people that fascinated our independent documentary filmmakers enough to commit them to tape.

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