Mailin
An Argentinian woman’s struggle to process her traumatic history of childhood sexual abuse becomes a disturbingly beautiful fairy tale in ‘Mailin’, a highly stylised documentary from film-maker and visual artist María Silvia Esteve.
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Posted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 17, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, IDFA 2025 |
An Argentinian woman’s struggle to process her traumatic history of childhood sexual abuse becomes a disturbingly beautiful fairy tale in ‘Mailin’, a highly stylised documentary from film-maker and visual artist María Silvia Esteve.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 15, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2025 |
A pair of deeply eccentric twin brothers and a talking cow are the stars of Czech director Miro Remo’s mischievous, tragicomic, prize-winning documentary ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 15, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2025 |
Tracking his nieces for two decades, from girlhood to womanhood, documentary maker Massoud Bakhshi’s ‘All My Sisters’ is a quietly subversive, deeply personal insider portrait of gender politics in Iran.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 15, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2025 |
IDFA’s new Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez on running the world’s largest documentary festival, the dangers of AI, and a controversial new ban on state-funded Israeli films.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 1, 2025 | The Festival Verdict, Leipzig 2025 |
A swansong for outgoing director Christoph Terhechte, the 68th edition of DOK Leipzig made a strong case that politically engaged, formally inventive, intellectually ambitious cinema can still play a critical role in troubled times.
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