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‘Everest Dark’ review: A Sherpa’s last summit to bring back the dead
Dir: Jereme Watt. Canada. 2025. 90mins
The enduring fascination of the world’s highest mountain is reframed on this dutifully stirring documentary a couple of famend...
‘Animality’ review: Ai Weiwei explores our often shocking relationship with animals
Dir/scr: Ai Weiwei. Germany. 2025. 122mins
In China, males armed with poles work as a workforce to membership to loss of life the city road...
‘Forever We Are Young’ review: Illuminating portrait of the superfans behind K-Pop phenomenon BTS
Dirs: Grace Lee, Patty Ahn. USA/South Korea. 2025. 90mins.
The seven-member Korean boy band BTS (or Bangtan Sonyeondan which accurately interprets as Bulletproof Boy Scouts)...
‘Sanatorium’ review: Striking portrait of Odesa’s Soviet-era health facility
Dir: Gar O’Rourke. Eire/Ukraine. 2025. 90 minutes
Hunkered on a stretch of scrubland simply outdoors of Odesa in southern Ukraine, close to an estuary famed...
‘The Helsinki Effect’ review: Timely doc revisits pivotal East/West summit
Dir/scr: Arthur Franck. Finland/Germany/Norway. 2025. 88mins
In the summertime of 1975, with the icy fingers of the Chilly Struggle nonetheless exerting a good grip on...
‘Lowland Kids’ review: America’s first climate refugees prepare to leave their Louisiana home
Dir/scr: Sandra Winther. Denmark/USA. 2025. 99mins
The Louisiana bayou neighborhood of Isle de Jean Charles is a magical place, nestling amongst bountiful rivers, beneath honey-kissed...
‘The Golden Spurtle’ review: Nourishing doc on a Scottish porridge-making championship
Dir/scr: Constantine Costi. UK/Australia. 2025. 75mins
There are simply three components required to make an ideal bowl of porridge: oats, water and salt. What makes...
Chinese doc ‘Always’ takes home top CPH:DOX prize as festival smashes attendance record
Deming Chen’s debut documentary At all times gained the highest DOX:Award prize at Copenhagen Worldwide Documentary Movie Competition (CPH:DOX) 2025.
Set within the mountains of...
‘Always’ review: CPH: DOX winner is a poetic meditation on growing up in rural China
Dir: Deming Chen. China/US/France. 2025. 89 minutes.
In a tiny mountain village in Sangzhi county, on the northern border of Hunan province, a instructor evokes...
Chinese doc ‘Always’ wins top CPH:DOX prize as festival smashes attendance record
Deming Chen’s debut documentary All the time received the highest DOX:Award prize at Copenhagen Worldwide Documentary Movie Competition (CPH:DOX) 2025.
Set within the mountains of...