The Six Billion Dollar Man
If great men deserve great documentaries, director Eugene Jarecki’s exhaustive profile of Julian Assange, ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’, could hardly be bettered.
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The Sessions
One woman’s sexual assault is a stand-in for every woman’s in Belgian director Sien Versteyhe’s tightly focussed chamber documentary.
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’.
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.
“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.