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Two brave women stand up for human rights as hordes of Uzbeks are dragged from their workplaces to pick state cotton, in this compelling documentary exposing farming practices only just outlawedAs a child growing up in Uzbekistan, film-maker Michael Bo…
Read MoreA tense, state-of-the-nation drama set in Covid-era India successfully exposes how the caste system underpins much of the country’s division and strife ‘No one ever plans for the poor,” says a young police officer in this tense, painful pandemic drama …
Read MoreEntertaining new version of Pakistan cult movie follows a young noble boy spirited away to a poor village when a rival clan slaughters his parentsImagine Game of Thrones crossed with Gladiator and you’ll have something like this entertainingly old fash…
Read MoreA despairing handwring of a film shows the effects of environmental crisis on India’s capital – with images as nightmarish as sci-fiEnvironmental doom is coming: as the planet heats up, it’s all going to get much worse. Nothing new there – but, terrify…
Read MorePhil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi have followed Mir for two decades in what is almost a brutal companion piece to Richard Linklater’s BoyhoodThis documentary following one boy’s life in Afghanistan feels like a brutal, desperately sad companion piece to …
Read MoreAkshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly as figures of funIndian film-maker Aanand L Rai gives his very mediocre melodrama a campaigning message about the culture of dowry-paying, thou…
Read MoreEliza Kubarska’s documentary follows the plight of the Nepalis expected to take huge risks to aid western leisure pursuitsLike Jennifer Peedom’s 2015 film, Sherpa, this climbing documentary is more interested in the Nepali ethnic group than the western…
Read MoreKazakhstani caper sends Dastan off for one last fishing weekend with his mates before the baby arrives, but horror descends in more ways than oneDeliverance meets The Hangover in this wacky-but-slapdash horror-comedy from Kazakhstan. It’s juvenile, cra…
Read MoreÉléonore Weber’s documentary, air-strike footage of pilots on night missions, could work well in a galleryThis hypnotic meditation on modern warfare from Éléonore Weber is an experimental cine-essay that feels closer to a gallery installation than a do…
Read MoreMichal Sulima follows piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe’s expedition to transport a piano to a village school high in the HimalayasThe lesson to be learned from Michal Sulima’s documentary is that if you’re planning to transport a piano to a village school …
Read MoreAn elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentaryHere’s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple’s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in …
Read MoreIndia’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energyA woman explains how a group of four men repeatedly broke into her house and raped her; six times so far….
Read MoreArush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war There is something a bit soapy and melodramatic about this queer coming-of-age drama from Sri Lanka, picked up by Ava DuVernay’s compa…
Read MoreCarlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with deathCarlos Casas’s Cemetery arrives on the arthouse streaming service Mubi, a slow sensory film wi…
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