All World Cinema Documentary Competition articles
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Reviews‘All About The Money’ review: Astute study of wealth, ideology and influence in modern America
Sinead O’Shea follows ‘The Edna O’Brien Story’ with impactful portrait of radical US communist James ‘Fergie’ Chambers
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Reviews‘One In A Million’ review: Compelling doc follows a Syrian refugee to a new life in Germany
Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes followed Syrian adolescent Israa over 10 tumultuous years
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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‘Hanging By A Wire’ review: Gripping docudrama follows real-life Himalayan cable car ordeal
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi uses archive footage, interviews and dramatisations to tell remarkable true story of survival
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Reviews‘Coexistence, My Ass!’: Sundance Review
Doc finds humour and heartbreak in Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi’s attempts to bridge the divide
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Reviews‘Khartoum’: Sundance Review
Five displaced Sudanese citizens re-enact their experiences in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘Cutting Through Rocks’: Sundance Review
One woman takes on the patriarchy in a small Iranian village
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Reviews‘How To Build A Library’: Sundance Review
The restoration of a fading colonial-era library in Kenya proves to be a touchpoint for the country’s issues
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Reviews‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’: Sundance Review
A Russian schoolteacher sheds light on Putin’s indoctrination of the country’s children
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Reviews‘Prime Minister’: Sundance Review
Former New Zealand premier Jacinda Arden shines in this full-access documentary
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Reviews‘The Perfect Neighbor’: Sundance Review
No-frills documentary recounts the shocking 2023 murder of a Black American woman through police bodycam footage
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Reviews‘2000 Meters To Andriivka’: Sundance Review
Mstyslav Chernov follows up ’20 Days In Mariupol’ with a brutal missive from Ukraine’s front line
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Reviews‘The Dating Game’: Sundance Review
Three Chinese men search for love against the demographic odds in this warm-hearted documentary
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Reviews‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat’: Sundance Review
Outstanding documentary ties the democratic movement in Africa in the 1960s with Black US musicians used by the CIA as pawns in the Cold War
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Reviews‘Black Box Diaries’: Sundance Review
Japanese journalist Shiori Ito documents her five-year struggle to bring her high-profile rapist to justice
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Reviews‘A New Kind Of Wilderness’: Sundance Review
An family living off-grid suffers a devastating loss in this gentle Norwegian documentary
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Reviews‘Agent Of Happiness’: Sundance Review
Audience-friendly documentary explores the reality of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness policy
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Reviews‘Ibelin’: Sundance Review
Norwegian documentary uncovers the full extent of a hardcore gamer’s online life after his untimely death
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News‘20 Days In Mariupol’ scoops IDFA audience award
Mstyslav Chernov’s unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine wins the public vote at the documentary festival