Better Go Mad in the Wild
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’.
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Author: Stephen Dalton
All My Sisters
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.
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“In the end, it’s about ethics”: an interview with Isabel Arrate Fernandez
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.
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DOK Leipzig 2025: The Verdict
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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Take the Money and Run
Funny and compelling, if slightly glib, Ole Juncker’s fast-paced documentary ‘Take the Money and Run’ chronicles the case of a Danish artist who stole a hefty chunk of gallery money, arguing in court that the theft was a conceptual art statement.
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