Posts by Matt Turner

The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers

By Matt Turner

A fine and necessary portmanteau of British documentaries all made by lesser-known women filmmakers.

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The Novelist’s Film – first-look review

By Matt Turner

Hong Sang-soo interrogates the function of art in his seemingly self-reflective latest feature.

Everything Will Be OK – first-look review

By Matt Turner

Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh ponders a world where animals have enslaved the human race in his latest experimental feature.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

By Matt Turner

A school teacher goes viral for all the wrong reasons in Romanian director Radu Jude’s salacious social satire.

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El Father Plays Himself

By Matt Turner

This rich meta-documentary follows a father and son on a deeply personal filmmaking journey into the Amazon jungle.

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The Fever

By Matt Turner

Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin’s allegorical mystery-thriller expertly melds tradition with modernity.

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Gunda

By Matt Turner

Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary captures the daily rhythms of its porcine star’s life on the farm.

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy – first-look review

By Matt Turner

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi returns with another female-oriented drama about the intricacies of everyday human dynamics.

Introduction – first-look review

By Matt Turner

A young man travels to Berlin in the latest lilting relationship drama from South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.

Explore life in the margins at the 18th Document Film Festival

By Matt Turner

This year’s virtual programme seeks to reframe our understanding of a world in constant flux.

Mayor

By Matt Turner

This striking portrait of the mayor or Ramallah digs into the details of governance, diplomacy and dignity.

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Documentaries to discover at the BFI London Film Festival 2020

By Matt Turner

Eight non-fiction features that are well worth seeking out at this year’s LFF.

A new documentary revisits the Tokyo gas attack 25 years on

By Matt Turner

In Me and the Cult Leader, filmmaker and survivor Atsushi Sakahara confronts both his own trauma and that of a nation.

Midnight Family

By Matt Turner

Luke Lorentzen’s timely chronicle of a family-run ambulance service makes for engrossing viewing.

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Present.Perfect.

By Matt Turner

China’s vast live-streaming industry is laid bare in Shengze Zhu’s captivating documentary.

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The Cave

By Matt Turner

Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad provides another wrenching portrait of the people most afflicted by the civil war.

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Heimat is a Space in Time

By Matt Turner

German documentarian Thomas Heise examines his family history around the turn of the 20th century.

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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

By Matt Turner

American magician John Szeles attempts to pull off one final trick in this slippery meta-doc.

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Dominga Sotomayor: ‘I wanted emotions, not big events’

By Matt Turner

The director of the excellent Too Late to Die Young talks about recreating a rural commune from her childhood.

Nervous Translation

By Matt Turner

Shireen Seno’s striking second feature explores a period of social change from a child’s perspective.

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Hale County This Morning, This Evening

By Matt Turner

Filmmaker RaMell Ross weaves a transcendental tapestry of black lives in present-day Alabama.

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Exploring film heritage and imagined territories at DocLisboa 2018

By Matt Turner

This year’s festival included a focus on films that challenge our perception of place and belonging.

A new documentary boldly challenges our perceptions of death

By Matt Turner

Steven Eastwood’s Island follows four terminally ill people across the final year of their lives.

The best new sports documentaries to look out for in 2018

By Matt Turner

This year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest featured three profound tales of sporting triumph and tragedy.

The eye-popping, pioneering history of 3D cinema

By Matt Turner

Whether cheap trick or clever gimmick, the use of stereoscopic techniques has constantly pushed the boundaries of the medium.

What does it mean to come of age in the modern world?

By Matt Turner

Three outstanding new films at this year’s CPH:DOX presented illuminating responses to this question.

The Final Year

By Matt Turner

Documentarian Greg Barker gains unprecedented access to Barack Obama’s administration during his farewell tour.

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Jane

By Matt Turner

This affectionate documentary chronicles the life and work of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall.

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Celebrating the centenary of Japanese animation at LEAFF

By Matt Turner

Rare works from Satoshi Kon and Osamu Tezuka were presented at this year’s festival.

The film collective exploring the intersection between feminism and horror

By Matt Turner

The Finals Girls showcases exciting female voices in genre cinema.

The Lure

By Matt Turner

This real-life Treasure of the Sierra Madre follows avid gold seekers on a strange literary adventure.

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Exploring Brazilian cinema’s experimental side at the 70th Locarno Film Festival

By Matt Turner

Good Manners and Once it Was Brasilia were among the highlights of this year’s festival.

Imagined Futures shorts at Shubbak film festival 2017

By Matt Turner

London’s annual celebration of Arab culture once again offers a window into an unseen world.

How cinema is challenging the narrative around the Syria crisis

By Matt Turner

At Sheffield Doc/Fest a trio of films reveal the horror and hope at the heart of the conflict.

Why Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust remains essential viewing

By Matt Turner

A key inspiration for Beyoncé’s Lemonade, this afrofuturist 1991 drama is a milestone in American cinema.

A staggering new film tells the story of faith in America

By Matt Turner

Deborah Stratman’s hour-long documentary The Illinois Parables explores the connection between religion and national identity.

Is this the weirdest series of films ever made?

By Matt Turner

Matthew Barney’s The Cremaster Cycle makes for a uniquely strange and self-indulgent viewing experience.

Blurred realities at CPH:DOX 2017

By Matt Turner

This year’s festival boasted ground-breaking cinematic experiments which offered reflections on our digital age.

What does it mean to live and work in the digital present?

By Matt Turner

Eduardo Williams’ intoxicating debut feature The Human Surge ponders just that.

Is experimental animation on the rise?

By Matt Turner

The recent Edge of Frame Weekender showcased bold contemporary visions and rarely seen masterpieces.

The lives of Korean women as seen through the eyes of female directors

By Matt Turner

This year’s LKFF offered a refreshing counterpoint to the masculine narratives that continue to dominate Korean cinema.

How cinema is rewriting the Middle East narrative

By Matt Turner

Filmmakers from across the region are challenging perceptions through intimate, personal storytelling.

How contemporary Arab cinema is challenging perceptions of the region

By Matt Turner

The third annual SAFAR festival in London once again boasts a programme full of surprises.

Meet the young female directors leading Mexico’s cinema revolution

By Matt Turner

Documentary filmmakers Betzabé García and Tatiana Huezo are giving a voice to victims of violent abuse.

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