All articles by Wendy Ide
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Reviews‘Always’ review: CPH: DOX winner is a poetic meditation on growing up in rural China
Denming Chen’s striking second feature takes the top prize at Danish doc fest
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Reviews‘The Golden Spurtle’ review: Nourishing doc on a Scottish porridge-making championship
Constantine Costi’s delightful portrait of a highland tradition bows in CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘The Helsinki Effect’ review: Timely doc revisits pivotal East/West summit
CPH:DOX title is a lively exploration of the 1975 Helsinki conference that aimed to end the Cold War
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Reviews‘Lowland Kids’ review: America’s first climate refugees prepare to leave their Louisiana home
Darren Aronofsky produces this ’extremely accomplished’ CPH:DOX debut
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Reviews‘Sanatorium’ review: Striking portrait of Odesa’s Soviet-era health facility
Documentary from Irish director Gar O’Rourke debuts at CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘Forever We Are Young’ review: Illuminating portrait of the superfans behind K-Pop phenomenon BTS
Grace Lee and Patty Ahn’s documentary focuses on the band’s dedicated ARMY fanbase
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Reviews‘Animality’ review: Ai Weiwei explores our often shocking relationship with animals
The filmmaker’s unflinching work bows at CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘Everest Dark’ review: A Sherpa’s last summit to bring back the dead
Doc follows a retired guide’s attempts to atone to the mountain goddess
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Reviews‘The Safe House’ review: Cluttered 1960s Paris-set chamber piece
Lionel Baier makes his first appearance in Berlin competition
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Reviews‘Timestamp’ review: Doc is a powerful, fractured portrait of school days in Ukraine
Kateryna Gornostai returns to Berlin with this Competition title
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Reviews‘Two Times João Liberada’ review: Portuguese LGBTQ+ title is a niche debut
Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to shed light on modern filmmaking conventions
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Reviews‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Mohamed Rashad’s Perspectives title has a ’grim inevitability’
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Reviews‘Dreamers’ review: Tender queer migrant drama from Britain
Nigeria-born Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor draws on her own experiences
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Reviews‘Girls On Wire’ review: Implausible action drama from China’s Vivian Qu
Berlin Competition entry can’t make up its mind whether it’s a crime thriller or a domestic drama.
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Reviews‘Hysteria’ review: Tense German satirical thriller eyes breakout status
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay follows up his debut hit ‘Oray’
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Reviews‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
Hyeyoung Lee’s fists of fury fuel Berlin Special Gala
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Reviews‘Shadowbox’ review: Indian debut boasts ‘storytelling of economy and elegance’
Alcoholism blights a home in the suburbs of Calcutta in this Perspectives title
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Reviews‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
Panorama title explores the extent of family ties
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Reviews‘Hot Milk’ review: Emma Mackey anchors uneven adaptation of Deborah Levy novel
’Sex Education’ star headlines Berlin Competition title with Vicky Krieps and Fiona Shaw
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Reviews‘Growing Down’ review: Father lies to protect his son in tense Hungarian debut
Balint Daniel Sos’s feature bows in Berlin’s Perspectives section