All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Time And Water’ review: Sara Dosa follows ‘Fire Of Love’ with poetic study of Iceland’s changing landscape
The CPH:DOX premiere explores the threat posed by climate change to the country’s glaciers
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Reviews‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea’ review: Jeanie Finlay follows ‘Your Fat Friend’ with empathetic portrait of a community in turmoil
This CPH:DOX premiere follows the beleagured fishing communities of England’s north east coast
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Reviews‘Hell’s Army’ review: Slick doc follows Russian journalists on case of alarming new world order
Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley follows Katya Hakim as she tracks Russia’s Wagner mercenary force
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Reviews‘Whispers In May’ review: Lyrical, warm Chinese debut is poignant blend of documentary and fiction
Dongnan Chen’s CPH:DOX competition title follows three teenage girls on a momentous journey
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Reviews‘Amazomania’ review: Agile doc reframes 1996 expedition to isolated Korubo community
Swedish filmmaker Nathan Grossman’s CPH:DOX title was made in collaboration with the Korubo people
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Reviews‘I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore’ review: Offbeat, idiosyncratic Taipei-set debut defies easy categorisation
The improvised first feature from Ka Ki Wong bows in CPH:DOX Next Wave
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Reviews‘The Cord’ review: Gritty, urgent doc follows one-woman crusade to fix Venezuela’s maternity system
French filmmaker Nolwenn Hervé’s feature follows Carolina as she fights to support the mothers of Maracaibo
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Reviews‘Mariinka’ review: CPH:Dox opener is arresting but tonally uneven account of life in east Ukraine
Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue filmed his observational documentary over 10 years
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Reviews‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s follow-up to Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is a less propulsive, more pensive work
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Reviews‘Lali’ review: First all-Pakistani film to play Berlin is heady, tonally disjointed comedy thriller
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s Berlin Panorama title is unafraid of defying genre convention
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Reviews‘The Garden We Dreamed’ review: Mexican migrant drama puts lyrical, affecting spin on a well-worn genre
Joaquin del Paso’s third film stars Nehemie Bastien and Faustin Pierre as a couple attempting to make a forest home
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Reviews‘The Day She Returns’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s slight, ponderous character study stars Song Sunmi
Sunmi’s expressive performance lifts the director’s slow-burning Berlin Panorama title
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Reviews‘Roya’ review: An imprisoned Iranian teacher struggles to hold herself together in vivid, challenging political drama
Mahnaz Mohammadi’s follow-up to ’Son-Mother’ features an expressive performance from Melisa Sözen
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Reviews‘Home Stories’ review: Eva Trobisch weaves an ambitious portrait of a modern German family
The director follows ‘Ivo’ and ‘All Is Well’ with meticulously-crafted Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘Truly Naked’ review: Forthright and unflinching sex industry drama set in a British seaside town
Dutch director Muriel d’Ansembourg bows her feature debut in Berlin Perspectives
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Reviews‘Forest High’ review: Quietly assured Belgian debut follows three women working at a remote Alpine refuge
Manon Coubia’s Perspectives title is a restrained meditation on solitude, memory and place
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Reviews‘Dust’ review: Anke Blonde’s claustrophobic late-90s Belgian drama lacks high-stakes tension
The film stars Jan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter as successful software developers on the brink of disaster
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Reviews‘Rose’ review: Sandra Hüller is phenomenal in arresting character study set in 17th-century Germany
Markus Schleinzer’s black-and-white Berlin Competition title also stars impressive newcomer Caro Braun
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Reviews‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey
The director’s second Berlin competition title follows two warring clans in the Turkish mountains
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Reviews‘Heysel 85’ review: Technically astute, narratively laboured dramatisation of 1985 European Cup Final stadium tragedy
Teodora Ana Mihai’s third fiction feature premieres as a Berlin Special Gala