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Young man in white Nike T-shirt smiling in a field.
Review

Name Me Lawand

by David Jenkins

A deaf Kur­dish boy belat­ed­ly dis­cov­ers the sim­ple joys of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in Edward Lovelace’s mov­ing and polit­i­cal­ly pre­scient doc­u­men­tary portrait.

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Young woman with dark hair wearing striped top, sitting at a desk.
Review

The Super 8 Years

by Mark Asch

Annie Ernaux and her son David piece togeth­er a mag­i­cal home movie essay on mar­riage, moth­er­hood and the whole damn thing.

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Elderly man with curly grey hair in a bookshop, surrounded by shelves and hanging lamps.
Review

Hello, Bookstore

by Robyn Quick

An inde­pen­dent book­shop finds itself under threat from clo­sure in this heart­felt doc.

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Silhouetted figure on stage amid colourful, fiery stage lights and crowd.
Review

My Imaginary Country

by Marina Ashioti

A new vital work by Patri­cio Guzmán sees the doc­u­men­tary vet­er­an turn his gaze towards a new gen­er­a­tion of Chilean revolutionaries.

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Man in a tuxedo with a boutonnière, gazing seriously at the camera.
Review

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

by Marina Ashioti

Barn­a­by Thomp­son cel­e­brates the mul­ti­fac­eted life and work of leg­endary play­wright Noël Cow­ard with a per­func­to­ry pro­file doc.

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Blurred image of an unidentified person's face, with warm, reddish-orange tones.
Review

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

by David Jenkins

This human­ist por­trait of care, surgery and tech­nol­o­gy is Ver­e­na Par­avel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s most overt­ly social­ly con­scious work.

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Three women in intimate, relaxed poses on a bed. Warm tones, dark hair, clothing in polka dot and red patterns.
Festivals

Four Daughters – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

The lat­est doc­u­men­tary from Tunisian direc­tor Kaouther Ben Hania cen­ters a quar­tet of young women whose lived are changed for­ev­er when two of them join ISIS.
Two young people, a boy and a girl, seated on stools and engaged in conversation in a workshop-like setting with various tools and equipment visible.
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Youth (Spring) – first-look review

by Caitlin Quinlan

The Chi­nese mas­ter of slow cin­e­ma cov­ers life in some of the coun­try’s 18,000 gar­ment fac­to­ries in this sprawl­ing but focused documentary.
Crowd of people sledging on snowy slope in city, with sleds and buildings in background.
Festivals

Occupied City – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Steve McQueen’s doc­u­men­tary con­trast­ing present-day Ams­ter­dam with its past occu­pa­tion by the Nazis is a tes­ta­ment to the chang­ing face of history.
Close-up of a human face in purple and blue tones, with the eyes filling the frame.
Review

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

by Lillian Crawford

Nina Menkes’ broad-strokes, reac­tionary inves­ti­ga­tion of the male gaze is more inter­est­ed in cher­ry-pick­ing than it is insight­ful critique.

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