By Lucy Peters
Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost.
An unapologetic hagiography of the famed British photographer whose work chronicles working class leisure time.
Viktor Kossakovsky takes us on a journey through the concrete and stone that makes up much of our modern world.
Stephen Soucy delves into the creative and personal partnership of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory which produced some of Britain's greatest literary adaptations.
By Jordan Cronk
Over three years, Ruth Beckermann documents school life in a multicultural working class district of Vienna.
A production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in online world of Grand Theft Auto became these two actors’ answer to the pandemic’s enforced lockdowns.
Clair Titley's doc tells the outrageous story of a Japanese man who was left naked and trapped in a room for over a year, unwittingly becoming a reality TV star.
This vital and deeply personal essay doc carefully dissects and dismantles age-old representations of witches.
Johan Grimonprez's documentary explores the circumstances that led two American jazz musicians to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
Calling for a free Palestine, this vital doc chronicles the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community and the occupation’s atrocities in the West Bank.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
Mark Cousins’ lyrical exploration into the life and work of a little-known modernist painter from Scotland.
This documentary artfully explores familial love, race and belonging through the complex framework of South African history.
A conflict between indigenous communities and white settlers in a region ravaged by historical grievances and climate change is the subject of this powerful doc.
By Juan Barquin
Will Ferrell and his best friend Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip, reflecting on Steele's experiences as a recently out trans woman, in Josh Greenbaum's meandering but sweet documentary.
By Maes Kerr
Maria Mire directs this innovative documentary about Margarida Tengarrinha, a member of the Portuguese Communist Party during António de Oliveira Salazar's premiership.
An abandoned CIA base in Kabul becomes a playground for the resurgent Taliban in Ibrahim Nash’at's intriguing piece of documentary reportage.
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