Mark Adams

In Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege Abdallah, Al-Khatib has composed a love song to a place that resists, with dignity, the atrocities of war.

At the heart of this absorbing film is the underlying importance of investigative journalism within a world that prefers to suppress whistle-blowers, and favours spin over responsibility.

A remarkable and provocative film, Children of the Enemy is the moving and powerful story of one man’s lonely fight to try and free his seven grandchildren from a refugee camp in Syria.

A smartly observed examination of what happens when political, social and financial imperatives collide, set against the controversial and polarizing backdrop of the area surrounding the World Trade Centre in Brussels North amid plans for its redevelopment.

Phie Ambo’s powerful new documentary on Danish climate politics follows a period of action and change as seen from the viewpoint of both politicians and activists.

In her CERN-located doc, Swiss Pauline Julier shrewdly avoids dwelling on footage from science meetings, nimbly cutting in archive as well as animation of how the new Collider project will look, also making judicious use of an evocative sound design and score.

Both intriguing and watchable, although the title may perhaps be more provocative than the content, the work is a smart combination of avant-garde experimental art with disturbing reportage of a real life incident that dominated news channels for some time.

A thoughtful, engaging and gentle examination of the delicate relationship between patient and healer, Les Guérisseurs hits a much-needed tone of compassion and understanding that seems highly appropriate in these pandemic times.

An enthralling and clever deep-dive into the oddly surreal - and also rather worrying – retirement area of Florida called simply ‘The Villages’.

Louis Theroux has the charm, humour and intelligence to offer an alternative insight into a story that remains weird, worrying and at times extremely wild.