Reviews

Shot from a Zurich window, the film inventively combines images of demolition and re-construction with reflections on the loss of loved-ones and the harsh treatment of newly-arrived migrants.

All of it is love: it's beautiful, it's painful, it's enviable and it's what we live for and through. And it is what this film is undeniably made of.

Not the first documentary by a bi-cultural director searching for her roots. But Their Algeria manages to deal with the matter in a light yet profound way, leaving you moved and informed.

A new doc on Stanley Kubrick uses, for the first time, the audio of interviews conducted by French critic Michel Ciment. The result serves as a good introduction to his oeuvre, with the ‘final room’ from 2001 working as a clever focus point.

In her selection for Medium/Short Comp, Daria Yurkevich follows a family of three girls and their mother living within a rural community in Belarus… in the shadow of Chernobyl.

A nostalgic portrait of African-American Geechee culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia, focuses on the elderly Cornelia Bailey and her two adopted young sons, who represent her hopes for regeneration.

How do you deal with the harsh reality of escaping a country where you’re not wanted, only to find that the safe haven in which you have invested so much hope doesn’t want you either?

Garage People is the Russian equivalent of Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement, drenched in vodka and melancholy.

In the Russian doc master's new film, animals which are usually thought of as meat are here observed as fellow living beings.

Using few words, Berlin-based director Teboho Edkins observes the interactions of cattle herders and Chinese immigrant traders in Lesotho, the country where he grew up.