Dancing Turtle Films is proud to announce the distribution of Sakartvelo: Dances of Freedom, a documentary short by filmmaker Vladislav Amelin, produced by Ilya Blokh.

David Fedele is one of documentary filmmaking's most consistently independent voices.

Engin Hassan has spent the better part of three decades at the centre of some of the most interesting music being made in London.

Off the northern coast of West Papua, just south of the equator, lies Biak — a small tropical island whose waters contain some of the richest coral reefs in the world.

We've launched a new series of curated collections in the Dancing Turtle shop, bringing together releases from across the label's catalogue in themed sets that tell a fuller story than any single record can on its own.

In 2012, Dancing Turtle founder Dominic Brown documented the forgotten conflict in Western Sahara through his documentary film La Badil.

In March this year, Turkish police surrounded the Istanbul home of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the city's elected mayor and the most credible opposition challenger to Erdoğan ahead of presidential elections due in 2028.

There is a particular kind of patience to Daisuke Tanabe's career.

The Road to Home is now available to watch in high definition via the Dancing Turtle shop, marking the first time the film has been made available as an on demand stream.

There are people who are genuinely good at finding music that matters, and Lewis Robinson is one of them.

Some artists are defined by their output.

Jules Ellis has been a quiet but distinctive presence in Dancing Turtle's world for some time — as a member of Paradise Found and as one half of Elpoep, the duo whose work sits at an unhurried intersection of electronic production, ambient texture and global influence.

The struggle for West Papuan independence has entered one of its most significant and most dangerous phases.

Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine turns thirty next year, and there is a case to be made that it has grown more relevant with each passing decade rather than less.

David Fedele has spent the better part of two decades making films the mainstream film industry would not make, about people it would rather not think about, in places it would rather not go.

This October sees the release of a record that very nearly never existed.

We're deeply saddened to share the belated news that music producer Conrad Colson, aka "Inkliing", tragically passed away last year at the age of 34 following a long battle with mental illness.

Adrian Sherwood is without doubt one of the most visionary producers in modern music, helping to break down the boundaries between exploratory genres including dub/reggae and industrial.

When Indonesian businessman Anindya Bakrie and his colleague Erick Thohir announced plans last year to acquire a majority stake in Oxford United, fans started believing that the lofty moments of success last seen in the 1980s were set to return.

On 20 May 2022, Timor-Leste marked the twentieth anniversary of its formal independence — the culmination of a struggle against Indonesian occupation that cost between 100,000 and 250,000 lives and lasted nearly a quarter of a century.

In July 2011, South Sudan became the world's newest nation.

Some of the best signings arrive unexpectedly.

Dancing Turtle label stalwarts, the Lani Singers, feature on Keleketla!

There are people who resist easy description, and Misha Somerville is one of them.

To mark the 5th anniversary of the untimely death of singer-songwriter Chris Austin, we are today making available for free download a selection of songs that he created with his band Burn Paper Tigers - a vehicle for his songs between 2008 and 2009.

Fifty years is a long time to remain relevant.

In June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury carrying around five hundred passengers from the Caribbean.

On 25 August, the Myanmar military launched what it described as a counter-insurgency operation in Rakhine State in the west of the country.

There is a supply chain that runs from the shops of the developed world to the most marginalised communities on earth, and it runs in both directions.

We're thrilled to announce that our documentary about Nobel Peace Prize nominee Benny Wenda has been awarded ‘Best Documentary Feature’ at the Amsterdam Film Festival in their 2016 Van Gogh Awards.

Forgotten Bird of Paradise, the award-winning undercover documentary directed by Dancing Turtle's Dominic Brown, has won Best Short Documentary at the Davis International Film Festival in California.

Benny Wenda, West Papuan musician and spokesman for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, has joined forces with former members of legendary reggae artist Lucky Dube's band to record a song for the people of West Papua.

Plans for a transcontinental railway cutting across the Amazon rainforest from the Atlantic to the Pacific have provoked outrage among indigenous communities and Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights.

Indigenous Resistance is a revolutionary musical collective built on collaboration — bringing together indigenous cultures from jungles, favelas and barrios with producers and musicians working in studios and on laptops across the industrialised world.

A global solidarity concert for West Papua will take place in Los Angeles on May 15th, bringing together artists and organisers in support of the ongoing struggle for self-determination.

In 2013, Dancing Turtle Films released a documentary about John Rothwell — a former British soldier and biker who, having legally changed his name to King Arthur Uther Pendragon, now identifies as the reincarnation of Britain's legendary monarch.

New video footage documenting the aftermath of the Paniai massacre in West Papua has been released publicly for the first time, intensifying calls for Indonesia to conduct an independent and transparent investigation into the killings.

Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated West Papuan independence leader, has arrived in South Africa this week on his first official visit to the country, aimed at building support for the self-determination struggle in West Papua.

In the mountains of northern Morocco, in a forest called Gourougou overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla, hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants live in makeshift camps, waiting for a chance to jump a heavily militarised barrier and enter Europe.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has submitted its formal application for membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, in a ceremony held today on the steps of the MSG Secretariat in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Oro Province Governor Garry Juffa has publicly declared his support for West Papuan independence, calling on the government of Papua New Guinea and other Pacific island nations to stand alongside the Papuan people in their struggle for self-determination.

A new platform designed to help whistleblowers in Africa pass sensitive information securely to journalists launched this week.

The National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has expressed deep concern over the continuing deadlock in Western Sahara, placing the blame squarely on Moroccan intransigence and what it describes as open defiance of United Nations efforts to reach a just and lasting resolution to the conflict.

The clear-cutting of forests to make way for oil palm plantations is driving a wave of illegal logging across Indonesia, fundamentally undermining efforts to reform the country's forestry and timber sectors.

Five West Papuan civilians were shot dead and twelve others injured on Monday after Indonesian troops and police fired into a crowd in the highlands region of Paniai.

The name alone demands attention.

Five years after their acclaimed debut, the Lani Singers are back.

Earlier this summer, what began as a small occupation of a central Istanbul park became something no one had quite anticipated.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Chris Austin, the songwriter and driving force behind Tape Error, who died earlier this month after being diagnosed with liver cancer.

There is a phrase that gets used about Tape Error's music that has stuck: "nightmare lullabies." It is not a comfortable description, but it is an accurate one.

A Free West Papua solidarity concert will take place in Port Moresby later this week, bringing together leading musicians, cultural figures and community voices in a public show of support for West Papua’s freedom struggle.

The struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people in Western Sahara — often called Africa’s last colony — is long, complex, and largely ignored by the international media.

Dancing Turtle Films is proud to announce the release of La Badil — Arabic for No Other Choice — a new short documentary directed by Dominic Brown and co-produced with Peri Nirupan, filmed undercover in Western Sahara earlier this year.

The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people.

Some music resists easy description, and that is not a weakness.

Forgotten Bird of Paradise, the undercover documentary directed by Dancing Turtle's Dominic Brown, has won Best Documentary at the Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, Nevada — one of the most respected short film festivals in the United States.

In his autobiography Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama recalls a conversation with his stepfather who had just returned home after a tour of duty with the Indonesian military in West Papua.

Between 2008 and 2010, Dancing Turtle Records produced a podcast series presented by label founder Dominic Brown.