All Documentaries articles
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Reviews
‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
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‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
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‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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‘La Jetée, The Fifth Shot’: DOK Leipzig Review
Meandering doc explores a personal connection to Chris Marker’s 1962 short La Jetée
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’Barbara Morgenstern: Doing It For Love’: DOK Leipzig Review
Niche documentary follows German electro-pop musician Barbara Morgenstern as she creates her new album
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‘Tracing Light’: DOK Leipzig Review
DOK Leipzig opener takes a deep dive into the concept of light through both science and art
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‘Flowers Of Ukraine’: DOK Leipzig Review
A Kyiv woman fights to maintain her city garden under the shadow of war in this life-affirming documentary
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Features
“Collaboration not competition”: DOK Leipzig’s Nadja Tennstedt on the 2024 industry programme
DOK Industry is designed to facilitate creative cooperation and encourage best practice at all levels
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‘Endurance’: London Review
Doc uses digital technology to bring Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition back to colourful life
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‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review
Immersive docu-fiction from the director of ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ charts climate change in Mongolia
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‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
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‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review
Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien
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‘Elton John: Never Too Late’: Toronto Review
Disney’s Elton John documentary fails to hit the high notes
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‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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‘Pavements’: Venice Review
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
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‘2073’: Venice Review
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review
Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism