All Documentaries articles – Page 3
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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
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‘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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’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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‘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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‘Separated’: Venice Review
Veteran documentarian Errol Morris turns his attention to the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘Unstoppable’: FIFF Review
FIRST IFF’s First Frame award winner profiles Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili