Mark Adams

A gripping, important and impressively powerful documentary about the fight for liberation and female emancipation in Egypt in 2021.

A strikingly mounted, illuminating and gently powerful film portrait of James Morrison, a truly great Scottish landscape artist, who died in 2020.

An intriguing personal portrait of artist and mother Poly Styrene, UK’s first woman of colour to front a major rock band, co-directed by daughter Celeste Bell and Paul Sng.

At the core of Stark’s unsettling and powerful documentary is the story of a young woman whose dalliance with fame and fortune has brought her little by way of happiness.

An often tense, genuinely moving, fly-on-the-wall doc about a small group of determined people risking their lives to rescue Yazidi women and girls held as sex slaves by ISIS in the packed and dangerous al-Hol Camp in northwestern Syria.

In this absorbing and compassionate documentary the hybrid animation technique works perfectly while archive footage of real-life historical events help reinforce a sense of time and place.

An enthralling and often incredible documentary in which the line between victim and perpetrator is blurred, prompting a series of questions that are, at heart, difficult to answer.

It may come in at 140 minutes but Edgar Wright’s doc is snappy and well-paced, revelling in the memorable music and delicious sense of humour that very much define the work of the brothers Mael, aka Sparks.

A thoroughly engrossing and shrewdly structured documentary that slowly draws out and explores its central character, allowing room for complexity, remorse and reflection.

A warm-hearted and at times gently insightful delve into the life of Czech sex-worker Anny.