Nicole Santé
IDFA Feature-length Comp review: Radiograph of a Family
Like an X-ray, this documentary gets under your skin to touch invisible points both in the body and the mind.
IDFA Feature-length Comp review: Inside the Red Brick Wall by Hong...
It makes you feel like you’re part of this brave and energetic movement, modern day heroes, fighting repression with little more than their innate intelligence and an overpowering sense of (in)justice.
IDFA Student Doc Comp review: Silence by Saara Hakkarainen
A journey into the mind of a paedophile, shining a light on an immense taboo and into the tortured soul of a broken young man.
IDFA Feature-length Comp: Odoriko by Yoichiro Okutani
A delicate and understated film that may change perspectives on the fine art of nude dancing.
IDFA Feature Competition review: Gorbachev. Heaven
Gorbachev. Heaven shows a vulnerable, yet proud and quietly cunning old man, stuck in time, with nothing to lose.
Venice Film Festival review: I Am Greta by Nathan Grossman
“Maybe the world needs more people with Asperger’s,” says Greta Thunberg. And maybe the world needs more filmmakers like Nathan Grossman, who has made a movie that everyone should watch.
Hot Docs: Changing Face of Europe: Always Amber
Swedish makers Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen create an inspiring, colourful and moving portrait of a young trans and their changing generation.
Visions du Réel review: Non Western (International Feature Competition)
Two people from very different backgrounds, finding each other despite social, religious and societal obstacles - a universal message delivered in a personal and unique story.
Visions du Réel review: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Grand Angle)
Plastic surgeon/artist Dr Han is the personification of the self-improvement phenomenon - a fascinating figure in a compelling soap movie about vanity gone wild.
Visions du Réel: Kombinat by Gabriel Tejedor (International Feature Competition)
The Soviet Union is not dead – it’s alive and kicking in Magnitogorsk, an unsightly town that resembles a fake film set, but one populated by some very real people.

















