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All Documentaries articles
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Reviews‘We Are The Fruits Of The Forest’ review: Compelling Rithy Panh doc follows Cambodia’s Indigenous Bunong people
The documentarian’s latest film was shot over four years and premieres in Tokyo competition
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Reviews‘Active Vocabulary’ review: Intimate, experimental doc explores indoctrination of Russian school children
Yulia Lokshina’s insightful film centres on an exiled Russian teacher working in Berlin
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Reviews‘The Woman Who Poked The Leopard’ review: Intense portrait of Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi
Patience Nitumwesiga profiles the exiled feminist poet in scattergun DOK Leipzig title
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Reviews‘Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students’ review: Claire Simon’s involving celebration of the French author
DOK Leipzig’s opening film explores how modern French teenagers respond to Ernaux’s body of work
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Reviews‘Kenny Dalglish’ review: Asif Kapadia’s affectionate footballer doc should have wide appeal
The film is made up of archive footage and narrated by former Liverpool player/manager Dalglish himself
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Reviews‘Super Nature’ review: Impactful Super 8 natural world doc exec-produced by Asif Kapadia
Ed Sayers’ feature documentary features Super 8 footage from contributors in 25 countries
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Reviews‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ review: Poetic documentary shines a light on Vietnam’s Indigenous Ruc people
Nicolas Graux and Truonh Minh Quy’s film follows a 60-year-old Ruc woman in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province
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Reviews‘Love + War’ review: Portrait of US war photographer Lynsey Addario from ‘Free Solo’ filmmakers
Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s insightful documentary focuses on the balance between ambition and responsibility
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Reviews‘Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story’ review: Colourful portrait of US creative activist
Yemi Bamiro’s London Competition title about photographer Kwame Brathwaite features a wealth of archive footage
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Reviews‘The Eyes Of Ghana’ review: Warm documentary profiles Ghanian cinematographer Chris Hesse
Ben Proudfoot follows the nonagenarian filmmaker’s attempts to digitise his archive of negatives from the 1950s and 60s
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Reviews‘Good Valley Stories’ review: José Luis Guerín documents life in Barcelona’s Vallbona district
The Spanish director’s latest work plays in San Sebastian Competition
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Reviews‘My Father And Qaddafi’ review: Libyan filmmaker Jihan explores the 1993 abduction of her politician father
Moving documentary looks at what happened to Mansur Rashid Kikhia, an opponent of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal regime
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Reviews‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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Reviews‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast
Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay
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Reviews’Highway 99: A Double Album’ review: Ethan Hawke pays tribute to country legend Merle Haggard
Sprawling Telluride premiere assembles a wealth of stars to perform Haggard’s songs and discuss his impact
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Reviews‘Sangre Del Toro’ review: Entertaining yet lightweight celebration of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
The Mexican director of ’Frankenstein’ discusses his inspirations and ideas in Yves Montmayeur’s documentary
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Reviews‘The Tale Of Silyan’ review: Tamara Kotevska follows ‘Honeyland’ with portrait of Macedonian farmer
Lyrical hybrid documentary charts the highs and lows of rural life in modern Macedonia
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Reviews‘Cover-Up’ review: Laura Poitras co-directs fascinating portrait of US journalist Seymour Hersh
Poitras and Mark Obenhaus follow Hersh’s career reporting on the likes of Vietnam, Watergate and Abu Ghraib
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Reviews‘Megadoc’ review: Filmmaker Mike Figgis goes behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’
This eye-opening look at the making of Coppola’s passion project screens in Venice Classics
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Reviews‘Ghost Elephants’ review: Werner Herzog tracks the legendary beast through the Angolan highlands
Herzog joins South African conservationist Steve Boyes on an expedition to find the giant creatures