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Hail Satan?

By Kambole Campbell

Penny Lane’s head-spinning documentary charts the rise of The Satanic Temple.

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Of Love and Law

By David Jenkins

Married gay lawyers in Osaka fight everyday injustice in this delightful, deadpan documentary.

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Dead Souls

By Matt Thrift

This eight-hour epic from Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing chronicles one of the worst atrocities in human history.

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Orione

By Romy Somerset

Toia Bonino’s documentary explores the problem of violence in the eponymous Buenos Aires neighbourhood.

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They Shall Not Grow Old

By Adam Woodward

Peter Jackson marks the centennial of the end of WWI with a fascinating, fatally flawed exercise in historic preservation.

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Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records

By Ed Gibbs

The ground-breaking label marks its half-century with a glossy new documentary celebrating its legacy.

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Weapon of Choice

By Romy Somerset

The story of Gaston Glock is woven into this intriguing survey of modern firearms culture.

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Distant Constellation

By Mark Asch

The inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home contemplate life’s big questions in this captivating doc from Shevaun Mizrahi.

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El mar la mar

By Glenn Heath Jr

Joshua Bonnetta and JP Sniadecki present a moving portrait of life in the US-Mexico border region.

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Arcadia

By Adam Lee Davies

Director Paul Wright embarks on an archive-footage odyssey across Britain’s vast cultural landscape.

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The Deminer

By Malika Kingston

Remembering the life and death of a man obsessed with deactivating live landmines in Iraq.

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Even When I Fall

By Louisa Cavell

This shocking exposé uncovers the tragic lot of many young circus performers in India.

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Trophy

By Isobel Raphael

The grotesque commerciality of big-game hunting is laid bare in this tough but vital animal welfare doc.

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No Stone Unturned

By Ella Kemp

Alex Gibney reopens a mysterious unsolved murder case in this incisive but frustratingly elusive documentary.

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Strong Island

By Christina Newland

Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.

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Almost Heaven

By David Jenkins

A teenager falls into a job in a bizarre funeral parlour in this touching if macabre observational documentary.

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The Work

By Aimee Knight

This essential, moving documentary challenges the idea of prison as a breeding ground for machismo and violence.

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