Documentaries

  • A Return To Utopia

    With a moniker like ‘Modern Times’, it feels natural for us to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, published in 1516.

  • Honey, Don’t be Weird

    By taking its characters seriously, Toni Erdmann avoids the most obvious pitfalls of the comedy genre.

  • The Fate of the Yezidis

    Thousands of Yezidis remain in IS captivity, whilst others flee and suffer traumas. The plight of the victims, their loved ones and the aid…

  • An intimate look at the hospital

    Filmmaker Jerome le Maire spent a year hanging out in Paris’ Saint-Louis hospital getting to know the staff prior to filming Burning Out.

  • An Intimate Portrayal of an Iconic Photographer

    Most people, when they hear the name Robert Mapplethorpe, think of controversy, New York’s bohemian life in the 1970s and gay BDMS photos that…

  • Close Reading of an Attack

    Winner of IDFA's Best Mid-Length Documentary, Death in the Terminal examines – or rather dissects – the immediate aftermath of the 2015 attack at…

  • Winner at IDFA: A Humanistic Portrait of a Troubled People

    WINNER AT IDFA: When Nori Sharif is given a video camera by director Zaradasht Ahmed to record life in a small Iraqi town, following…

  • The Feeling of Absence

    It’s getting darker.

  • How to tell what he did

    In 1988 Jens Michael Schau killed his life companion of thirteen years in a jealousy fit. As his partner was Denmark’s best selling author…

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