Mark Adams

At 217 minutes the film may be very long, which may limit screen exposure, but that should take nothing away from its warmth, compassion and sensitivity in boldly tackling a highly complex subject.

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.