Kees Driessen
Visions du Réel review: Sapelo (National Comp)
A nostalgic portrait of African-American Geechee culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia, focuses on the elderly Cornelia Bailey and her two adopted young sons, who represent her hopes for regeneration.
Berlin review: Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky
In the Russian doc master's new film, animals which are usually thought of as meat are here observed as fellow living beings.
Berlin Review: Days of Cannibalism
Using few words, Berlin-based director Teboho Edkins observes the interactions of cattle herders and Chinese immigrant traders in Lesotho, the country where he grew up.
IFFR review: Meanwhile on Earth, Carl Olsson
After we die, it is different people’s jobs to clean, stitch, embalm, drive, lift, lower, burn, and bury our corpses. Carl Olsson’s documentary feature observes them all, in a series of tableaux of Sweden’s funeral process.
IFFR review: Drama Girl by Vincent Boy Kars
In Tiger selection Drama Girl, Dutch filmmaker Vincent Boy Kars attempts revise a woman's past by dramatising it.
IDFA review: Mother and Son
An Azeri son and filmmaker returns to his mother after eight years – again – in this fascinating self-portrait that carves out its own path between observation and reconstruction.
IDFA Review: opening film ...
With admirable dedication, filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei has made his fourth documentary on Iranian youth detention.














