All Documentaries articles 1f4d60
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Reviews‘Endurance’: London Review 111w4r
Doc uses digital technology to bring Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition back to colourful life
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Reviews‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review 5b421c
Immersive docu-fiction from the director of ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ charts climate change in Mongolia
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Reviews‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review 6z6i71
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
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Reviews‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review 263h49
Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien
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Reviews‘Elton John: Never Too Late’: Toronto Review 4k1b6t
Disney’s Elton John documentary fails to hit the high notes
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Reviews‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review 271z2k
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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Reviews‘Pavements’: Venice Review 50310
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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Reviews‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review 267130
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
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Reviews‘2073’: Venice Review 4a6w55
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review 6463p
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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Reviews‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review 581w2t
Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism
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‘Homegrown’: Venice Review 3p46a
Unflinching documentary follows three right-wing American extremists in the lead up to the volatile 2020 US election
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Reviews’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review 362o49
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
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‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review 4t735h
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics
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‘Separated’: Venice Review 6319d
Veteran documentarian Errol Morris turns his attention to the Trump istration’s controversial immigration policies
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review 48154w
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review 2b2x5y
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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Reviews‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review 365cz
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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Reviews‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review 5j272w
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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‘Unstoppable’: FIFF Review 6p2a3g
FIRST IFF’s First Frame award winner profiles Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili
