All Documentaries articles
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Reviews‘Mailin’ review: Lyrical Argentinian doc explores the nature of memory in the aftermath of abuse
Maria Silvia Esteve’s visceral second feature makes its bow in IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
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Reviews‘Come See Me In The Good Light’ review: Affecting doc follows US poet Andrea Gibson’s cancer battle
’Good Night Oppy’ director Ryan White spends time with terminally ill Gibson and their partner Megan Falley
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘Flood’ review: Impactful exploration of family and faith is exec produced by Laura Poitras
Debut director Katy Scoggin’s emotional study of her relationship with her fundamentalist father now plays IDFA
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Reviews‘Steal This Story, Please!’ review: Energetic doc follows dogged US journalist Amy Goodman
Feature from ’Trouble The Water’ filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin makes its international bow at IDFA
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Reviews‘Goodbye Sisters’ review: Engrossing doc follows two young women back to their remote Himalayan mountain home
This strong debut from French-Irish filmmaker Alexander Murphy bows in Tallinn
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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