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All Documentaries articles
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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
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Reviews’North South Man Woman’ review: North Korean women seek South Korean husbands in illuminating documentary
Morten Traavik and Sun Kim’s clear-eyed film follows the highs and lows of love across the cultural divide
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Reviews’Better Go Mad In The Wild’: Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner follows Czech twins living off-grid
Miro Remo’s documentary pays tribute to idosyncratic brothers Frantisek and Ondrej Klisik
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Reviews‘The Negotiator’ review: Portrait of US senator George J Mitchell, Good Friday Agreement architect
Affectionate, limited documentary is directed by ‘Kneecap’ producer Trevor Birney
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Reviews‘A Quiet Love’ review: Sensitive documentary follows three deaf Irish couples
Film is first Irish feature to be told entirely in Irish Sign Language
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Reviews‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
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Reviews‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits the picturesque Pankissi valley in search of his roots
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Reviews‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Peck’s wide-ranging, cluttered film is several documentaries in one
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Reviews‘The Last Shore’ review: The aftermath of the tragic death of a Gambian migrant
Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s debut traces the impact of Pateh Sabally’s 2017 death in Venice
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Reviews‘To The West, In Zapata’ review: Life on the extremes in pandemic-era Cuba
David Bim’s hypnotic black-and-white documentary debuts at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘Flophouse America’ review: Poverty, addiction and one-room living wreak havoc on a child’s life
Close-quarters doc is a study of a family on the margins
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Reviews‘The Big Chief’ review: Close-up on controversial Red Army spy Leopold Trepper
‘1970’ director Tomasz Wolski deploys archive footage to document wartime double agent