Tagged Documentary

Simultaneously philosophical, sombre and pretentious, yet playful, fun and firmly tongue-in-cheek, Francofonia employs a whimsical and varied approach - not unlike that of Chilean master Patricio Guzmán - to...

Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary feature film that tells the incredible story of Philippe Petit, a French wire walker who, in August 1974, walked 1350 feet in the air between the newly constructed Twin Towers...

The uplifting and humanistic Frame by Frame gives us some admirable insight into the practitioners behind the new-found journalistic freedom in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Perhaps most importantly, it...

Detailing the turbulent production of Steve McQueen's ill-fated passion project Le Mans, Steve McQueen is a fascinating and entertaining documentary which offers plenty of interesting facts and tidbits, as...

The kinetic and scattershot nature of Wave vs. Shore nicely encapsulates the work of its subjects - but the rapid fire editing and a general lack of historical or cultural context makes the film feel more...

Director Walter Salles plunges straight in from frame one with his subject in Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang, a very personal study of Sixth Generation Chinese director and writer Zhangke. The...

Like Joshua Oppenheimer's astounding The Look of Silence, Censored Voices turns the lens of history onto the victors of a conflict they perceive as a righteous one - however not quite to the same level of...

Love, hatred, fear, laughter, sadness; you name it, Sean McAllister’s heart-breaking documentary about a family of Syrian refugees has it in spades. As compelling a romance as any you’ll find on screen,...

With scant time to acclimatise, Everest is quick to set up base camp deep in the foreshadowing of the mountain. Everest is a sight worthy of cinema’s largest screens, and a breathtaking canvas for the...

Though the events documented in The Price of Peace happened seven years ago, the story resonates with current Western discourse concerning government surveillance. Offering a much-needed portrait of Māori...

https://vimeo.com/89546048 You Won’t Regret That Tattoo is a talking-head documentary about tattooed over-50s: men and women, military lads and spiritualists, diehard troublemakers and adorable...

Director Kim Longinotto’s cinema vérité offers a raw insight mediated only by the occasional subtitle. In letting her subjects speak for themselves, Longinotto avoids impressing an interpretative filter...

Sebastião Salgado and Wim Wenders are perfect together: veterans of photography and filmmaking respectively, and concerned with the political and spiritual - both subjects being treated deeply and...

Asif Kapadia is a master of his form, expertly turning this Behind the Music-waiting-to-happen into a poignant, studious evocation of his subject's headspace, yet simultaneously keeping her distant. It was,...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/131506757 With subtlety, simplicity and restraint, Bringing Back the Light eschews patent ‘nature porn’ in favour of gentle storytelling. This didactic...