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Two Indian brothers dedicate themselves to rescuing birds that are being poisoned by pollution in this complex and quietly beautiful filmShaunak Sen’s documentary is a complex, thoughtful, quietly beautiful film about the ecosystem and human community….
Read MoreSombre documentary shot over five years follows two healthcare workers as they deliver babies in a brutally divided societySnow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s documentary is about two midwives – one Buddhist, one Muslim – in Rakhine state in western Myanmar, on the …
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 MoreCameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learnedThe photograph shows devastation in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb: a scorched wilderness where there was once a city. At its centre stands a l…
Read MoreMeditative documentary All That Breathes is about two brothers’ devotion to protecting black kites against a backdrop of pollution and violence in DelhiThe award-winning documentary All That Breathes is a meditation on life in Delhi through the eyes an…
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 MorePayal Kapadia’s award-winning film sees artistic creativity go hand in hand with the fight for political freedom in Modi’s IndiaCinephilia is, not surprisingly, a favourite subject of film directors, and it has a tendency to manifest itself on screen i…
Read MoreThis extraordinary tale of the desperate lengths a gay Afghan man was forced to go to in order to escape persecution is a powerful testament to human enduranceThis animated documentary from Danish film-maker Jonas Poher Rasmussen is an irresistibly mov…
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 MoreA gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries• I Am Belmaya reviewBelmaya Nepali’s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a …
Read MoreIn the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-makerAfter she took up film-making, Belmaya Nepali had to face disapproval from her husband and her highly patriarchal village in Nepal; but this was only…
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 MoreThis engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to IndiaThe memory of the Beatles’ relationship with India is revived in this engaging documentary, and if there i…
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