‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’, the emotionally charged collaboration between veteran Iranian documentary maker Mehrdad Oskouei and his teenage niece, Soraya Akhalaghi, won IDFA’s international competition while another Iranian film, ‘Past Present Continuous’ by filmmakers Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani, won the Envision competition.
Nordin Lasfar has made a decent, anodyne documentary from flammable material in ‘Mohammed & Paul – Once Upon a Time in Tangier’.
Matabeleland may be her first feature documentary but Nyasha Kadandara juggles romance and politics across Zimbabwe and Botswana like a pro.
A charming and frustratingly tangled take on AI’s encroachment on reality.
An Israeli stand-up comedian turns the hate and anger of her divided homeland into tragicomic humour in the timely, irreverent documentary ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’
Armed only with a phone camera, a troubled young Afghan woman films her attempts to illegally cross the border to Europe in the visually beautiful collaborative documentary ‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’
Andreas Pichler’s whistle-blower documentary ‘Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment’ is a convincing expose on Musk’s self-driving Teslas that could use less politics and more numbers.
Harrowing memories of domestic abuse are recounted over striking images of the natural world in Rahhala: Hayya ala Hayya, Lujain Jo’s beautiful and brutal reckoning with trauma.
Lasse Linder’s equine documentary, Air Horse One, is a quiet portrait of a champion thoroughbred – a behind the scenes peek that is meditative though never profound.
If great men deserve great documentaries, director Eugene Jarecki’s exhaustive profile of Julian Assange, ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’, could hardly be bettered.
One woman’s sexual assault is a stand-in for every woman’s in Belgian director Sien Versteyhe’s tightly focussed chamber documentary.
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’.
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.
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.