Documentaries
An almost 3-hour-long documentary about a monastery with no narration, where even the monks are silent: at first glance, these key features of Philip…
Watching Belfast Girls, I felt like a Kalahari tribesman watching National Geographic «Hey, these guys have come to my country and they’re putting it…
At first glance, Gary Burns and Jim Brown’s “Radiant City” might seem more like a mockumentary than a documentary
The new British doc fest BRITDOC has chosen to focus on being an industry festival, and it got off to a good start
We are all well aware of the dangers involved in making a documentary in Iraq these days
The title refers to the individuals who have been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) but who are still…
What a joyful visit to a cemetery! From the very beginning of this film, I felt at home in the universe that Heddy Honigmann…
When the Edinburgh International Film Festival first began in 1947, it was a documentary event, opened by pioneering filmmaker John Grierson
We often like to celebrate the successes of documentaries like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Super Size Me”, but is the success of these films a…