All Documentaries articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘Public Access’ review: Fascinating study of US community TV boom exec-produced by Benny Safdie
David Shadrack Smith’s Sundance title uses archive footage to recall the glory days of public access television
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Reviews‘American Doctor’ review: Hard-hitting doc follows three US doctors on the ground in Gaza
Poh Si Teng’s film proves an emotional gut-punch portrait of life during conflict
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Reviews‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ review: Emma Thompson exec produces immersive Glasgow protest doc
Felipe Bustos Sierra explores 2021 demonstration through interviews, archive footage and reenactments
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Reviews‘Becoming Victoria Wood’ review: Tender doc celebrates talent and tenacity of pioneering UK comic
Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Maxine Peake are among friends and colleagues paying tribute to Wood’s comedy genius
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NewsVincent Munier’s French nature doc ‘Whispers In The Woods’ makes noise with international buyers
EXCLUSIVE: Munier co-directed the 2022 Cesar-winning film The Velvet Queen
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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