Documentaries by film-makers from around the world.

Have you ever wondered what a housefly is really doing when it lands on your jam sandwich? And why it's virtually impossible to creep up on a fly without being seen? Take a journey of discovery into a miniature monstrous world. Narrated by Hugh Laurie. See today's choices.
Superfly, page 36

Wildlife Showcase 8.00pm BBC2
In a single day, more houseflies are born than there are human beings on the planet. This distasteful statistic underpins Kurt Mundl's close-up portrait of man's most constant, if unwanted, companion. The Fly, an Everyday Monster zooms in on the fly's huge compound eyes, its munching mouth parts and a body designed to make it the perfect flying, eating and breeding machine.
Mundl also traces man's efforts (largely failed) to rid himself of the housefly, from fly paper to chemical warfare. The Fly, an Everyday Monster is showing as the first of six acclaimed natural-history films from around the world, many of them finalists in October's Wildscreen festival. There's a close up of the fly on page 36.