Preview: Bird's Eye Film Festival, ICA, London

As part of this year's Bird's Eye Film Festival, devoted entirely to the work of international female film-makers, 13 documentaries will be screened, over three days, at the ICA.

The festival's opening documentary, Martyr Street, a UK premiere, is about a former Palestinian market in the West Bank, one of the most dangerous streets in the world, directed by the Canadian Shelley Saywell. Other films include Lifelike, which investigates the world of taxidermy, directed by Tally Abecassis.

Robert, Mary and Katrina, directed by Marjoleine Boonstra, explores the emotional impact of Hurricane Katrina on a couple filmed days after their escape from New Orleans. Been Rich All My Life, directed by Sundance award winner, Heather Lyn MacDonald, tells the journey of five chorus dancers in Harlem, now in their eighties, who met in the 1930s, and still dance together.

The Intimacy of Strangers, directed by the German director, Eva Weber, captures real mobile phone callers unwittingly revealing the most intimate details of their lives. Set in public places - train stations, shopping malls, and parks - Weber's humorous documentary investigates the effects of mobile phones on our relationships. It features inadvertently comic phone conversations, such as Weber's favourite, overheard at a bus stop in Clapham: "Hello, hello, who is it?... I can't see you, you're married. I'm sorry you're married... you've got a wife in Turkey... no, sorry, I've changed my mind. I can't see you. Sorry."

"I didn't want [mobile phone users] to know they were being filmed, to make it more natural," says Weber. "Afterwards I asked for permission to use the material in my documentary." Weber made the film at the National Film and Television School, in 2004, and hopes to turn it into a feature film. It is her second documentary, having previously made one about a lesbian beauty contest.

Birds Eye Film Festival 2006 Part 111: Documentaries 15-17 September ( www.birds-eye-view.co.uk)