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‘Billy’: Visions du Reel Review
Lawrence Cote-Collins tracks her friend Billy’s conviction for murder and his lifelong struggle with mental health
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‘My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts’: Visions du Reel Review
Syrian residents of Homs tentatively return to the war-ravaged city in the hopes of rebuilding their lives
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‘My Father’s Diaries’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Ado Hasanovic revisits the Balkan War through his father’s archival video and diary footage
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‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
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‘Apple Cider Vinegar’: Visions du Reel Review
Inspired by her own illness, Sofie Benoot sets off to find direct connections between the human body and our planet
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‘Fragments Of Ice’: Visions du Reel Review
Home video footage of 1980s Ukraine rubs up against its present in Maria Stoianova’s family history
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‘The Flats’: CPH:DOX Review
The past casts a permanent shadow over a West Belfast housing estate in this CPH:DOX winner
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‘Motherboard’: CPH:DOX Review
The highs and lows of life as a single parent over two decades are captured in this affecting documentary from the UK
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’The Battle For Laikipia’: CPH: DOX Review
A devastating drought pushes tensions between tribes and white landowners in Kenya’s Laikipia to breaking point
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‘Bob Trevino Likes It’: SXSW Review
Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo shine in multiple SXSW winner
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‘The Bones’: CPH:DOX Review
Fascinating excavation of the true value of dinosaur bones to finders, collectors, museums and scientists
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‘Immortals’: CPH:DOX Review
Young Iraqis born after the 2003 US occupation try to carve out their own lives in a repressive Baghdad
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‘My Stolen Planet’: Thessaloniki Review
CPH and Berlinale winner is an intimate celebration of everyday resistance in modern Iran
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‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’: CPH:DOX Review
US photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his artist wife Maggie Barrett put their 30-year relationship under the microscope
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‘Balomania’: CPH:DOX Review
Fascinating dive into the secretive, illegal world of Brazil’s hot air balloon aficionados
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‘Apollo Thirteen: Survival’: CPH:DOX Review
Peter Middleton’s immersive Netflix documentary about the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 space mission blends new and archive footage
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‘Civil War’: SXSW Review
Kirsten Dunst plays a photojournalist facing the horrors of an American civil war in Alex Garland’s new dystopian thriller
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‘Tack’: Thessaloniki Review
This sensitive documentary follows two Greek female sailors as they seek justice for institutional sexual abuse
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‘Forest’: Thessaloniki Review
Intimate documentary captures how Europe’s refugee crisis is impacting one Polish family’s quiet forest life
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‘Arcadian’: SXSW Review
Nicolas Cage faces off against night-time terrors in this Ireland-shot apocalyptic creature feature