Reviews

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.

There is a rhythm to the film’s sounds and images, a balance between the wild and the thoughtful. It’s as if we’ve entered Hobert’s mind and are dancing with her thoughts, associations and emotions…and what a privilege.

A visually stunning, provocative and lyrical essay on modern warfare that raises philosophical and ethical questions about an inevitable future.

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 dazzling dive into the deep underbelly of drug-fuelled red light tourism in Thailand and Cambodia, looking for two missing Finnish junkies through the eyes of their former travel companion. A morally ambiguous trip into the heart of darkness.

A mesmerizing visual essay on the impact of technology. It doesn’t judge but observes, and it poses questions which don’t necessarily need answering.

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.

This encounter between a solitary French settler and three First Nation hunters on a remote Canadian island has been stylised as a horror film, including unsettling music, bloody animal carcasses, failing mobile reception and even a chainsaw. The question is: why?