Reviews

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.

Acknowledging the influence of his mentor Roberto Minervini, director Carlos Alfonso Corral imbues his feature debut on homeless people at the US-Mexican border with remarkable immediacy and respect, within a highly stylized structure.

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.

The film may take a little time to get used to, but in the end it will have you rooting for these industrious but tireless Japanese volleyball players seeking Olympic gold.

Everything you see in this beautiful, painful but ultimately uplifting film is, indeed, a landscape: the fields of flowers, the green meadows, the forests… and the wrinkled skin of the protagonist, covered with lines and bumps, liver spots and a fading tattoo, representing a number.

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.