BEFF6 ‘Raiding the Archives’ (24 January – 5 February) is especially pleased to present in Thailand for the first time a poetic documentary made in the country in the early 1950s for UNESCO. World Without End (1953) was partly shot in Thailand by British experimental filmmaker Basil Wright, and captures with unusual lyricism a landscape on the cusp of modernisation. Paul Rotha, one of cinema’s first theorists, also directed this very special documentary.