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’Better Go Mad In The Wild’: Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner follows Czech twins living off-grid
Dir: Miro Remo. Czech Republic/Slovak Republic. 2025. 83mins.
Miro Remo’s delightfully idiosyncratic, now-bittersweet Karlovy Range Crystal Globe-winning documentary walks the road the place factual filmmaking...
‘Fuck The Polis’ review: FIDMarseille winner is a personal, lyrical portrait of modern Greece
Dir: Rita Azevedo Gomes. Portugal. 2025. 74mins
A misty voyage across the Greek islands turns into a celebration of magnificence and the pure world in...
‘A Quiet Love’ review: Sensitive documentary follows three deaf Irish couples
Dir: Garry Keane. Eire. 2025. 96mins
Documenting the relationships of three very totally different deaf Irish {couples}, A Quiet Love is an intimate, big-hearted celebration...
‘Saturn’ review’: Transilvania non-fiction winner paints complex portrait of fractured Spanish family
Dir/scr: Daniel Tornero. Spain. 2024. 96mins
A damaged household struggles to heal in Saturn, an intense, deeply private characteristic debut from Spanish director Daniel Tornero....
‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Dir/scr: Andra MacMasters. Romania/South Korea. 2024. 89mins
The idealistic glow of the previous is seen with the benefit of hindsight in Shiny Future. Andra MacMasters’...
‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Dir: Déni Oumar Pitsaev. France/Belgium. 2025. 110mins
Chechen filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev directs his personal quest to know his roots, come to phrases together with...
‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Dirs: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi. Ukraine/Austria/France. 2025. 111mins
On a regular basis life in Ukraine is the topic of the documentary Militantropos, which observes...
‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Dir: Eugene Jarecki. US/Germany/France. 2025. 123mins
Is Julian Assange a crusading impartial journalist or a harmful menace to nationwide safety? The Six Billion Greenback Man...
‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ review: U2’s Bono looks back in energetic solo show
Dir: Andrew Dominik. US/Italy/Eire. 2025. 87mins
To mark the 2022 publication of his memoir ’Give up: 40 Songs’ , U2 frontman Bono launched into a...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Dir. Raoul Peck. US/France 2025. 119mins
The British author Eric Blair, higher often known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the components ‘2+2=5’ to encapsulate the methods...