Documentaries

  • A mesmerising portrayal of India’s extreme right

    Covering more than a century of Indian history, Patwardhan weaves a story that exposes the roots of Hindu nationalism and the endless war against…

  • Dictatorship and revolt

    SUDAN: In Sudan, a small band of filmmakers rise up against the regime using the instrument of film.

  • War is war

    The little-seen world of Russian volunteers fighting in Ukrainian rebel provinces.

  • Fragments of experience

    MUSIC: Across Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC, musician PJ Harvey and photojournalist Seamus Murphy craft a beautifully shot, sensitively edited film on observation, experience,…

  • Colonial voyeurism revisited

    COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or…

  • No winners, no losers

    IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people.

  • The use of fiction to bring forth reality

    «It’s the strangest kind of documentary where the main character was not real but everybody else was», says Eugene Richards about his new film…

  • Documentary as a transmission medium

    OPPRESSION: The new documentary Spaces of Exception draws parallels between the experiences of oppression and resistance in Native American reservations and Palestinian refugee camps.

  • From «success story» to chaos and confusion

    But Now is Perfect tells the story of how a small local village in the south of Italy opened up their community and welcomed…

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