All Documentaries articles – Page 2
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Reviews‘Homegrown’: Venice Review
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
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
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Reviews‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics
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Reviews‘Separated’: Venice Review
Veteran documentarian Errol Morris turns his attention to the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review
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
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
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
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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Reviews‘Unstoppable’: FIFF Review
FIRST IFF’s First Frame award winner profiles Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili
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Reviews‘blur: To The End’: Review
The 2023 reunion of British band blur is captured in this introspective, candid documentary
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Reviews‘Housewife Of The Year’: Galway Review
Doc reveals Ireland’s troubling gender politics through the country’s long-running ’Housewife Of The Year’ competition
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Reviews‘A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things’: Karlovy Vary Review
Mark Cousins examines the life and work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in his latest cine-essay
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Reviews‘Real’: Karlovy Vary Review
Raw GoPro footage from a Ukrainian trench provides a visceral snapshot of the realities of conflict
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Reviews‘Kix’: Transilvania Review
Transilvania doc winner captures the life of a Hungarian boy over more than a decade
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Reviews‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review
Doc follows a 13 year-old boy’s quest to track down the murderers of his father in Kenya’s Laikipia county
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Reviews‘Nasty - More Than Just Tennis’: Cannes Review
Colourful documentary profiles the impact of Romanian player Ilie ‘Nasty’ Nastase on the world of tennis and beyond
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Reviews‘The Brink Of Dreams’: Cannes Review
An all-female Egyptian street theatre troupe act out their frustrations in this appealing Critics Week documentary
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Reviews‘Elementary’: Cannes Review
Claire Simon profiles daily life in a French elementary school in this charming documentary
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Reviews‘Ernest Cole, Lost And Found’: Cannes Review
Raoul Peck explores the life and work of exiled South African protest photographer Ernest Cole
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Reviews‘The Invasion’: Cannes Review
Sergei Loznitsa presents a vivid document of the effects of the Russian invasion on Ukraine