Documentary films
- Animals, Conservation, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, Fishing, Food, India, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Against the Tide review – old ways vs the new in a study of modern Indian fisherfolk
Seafaring friends from Mumbai cope with a changing climate and an unforgiving economy in different ways in Sar…
- Agriculture, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Forced labour, Global development, Human rights, Science, South and Central Asia, Uzbekistan, World news
Cotton100% review – how forced labour paid the price of Uzbekistan’s ‘white gold’
Two brave women stand up for human rights as hordes of Uzbeks are dragged from their workplaces to pick state …
- Animals, Birds, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, India, Oscars 2023, South and Central Asia, Wildlife
Stricken by smog: the miraculous, Oscar-tipped film about Delhi’s bird hospital
Years in the making and boasting astonishing footage, All That Breathes tells the extraordinary story of the b…
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Retrograde review – extraordinary insider’s view of US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Documentary maker Matthew Heineman watches a tragedy unfold as he follows the Green Berets supporting the Afgh…
- Animals, Birds, Conservation, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, India, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
All That Breathes review – Delhi’s birdmen on a mission to save the black kite
Two Indian brothers dedicate themselves to rescuing birds that are being poisoned by pollution in this complex…
- Buddhism, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Health, Islam, Midwifery, Myanmar, Religion, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Midwives review – a Muslim and a Buddhist grapple with childbirth in strife-torn Myanmar
Sombre documentary shot over five years follows two healthcare workers as they deliver babies in a brutally di…
- Air pollution, Climate crisis, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia, World news
Invisible Demons review – apocalypse now for pollution nightmare in Delhi
A despairing handwring of a film shows the effects of environmental crisis on India’s capital – with images as…
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My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan review – desperately sad study of a boy’s life
Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi have followed Mir for two decades in what is almost a brutal companion piece t…
- Asia Pacific, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Ireland, Japan, Nuclear weapons, Photography, US news, World news
US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last
Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learnedT…
- Animals, Birds, Cannes 2022, Cannes film festival, Conservation, Culture, Delhi, Documentary films, Environment, Festivals, Film, India, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
‘A gaping wound’: how a film about birds of prey is a warning to India’s capital city
Meditative documentary All That Breathes is about two brothers’ devotion to protecting black kites against a b…
- Culture, Documentary films, Film, Mount Everest, Mountaineering, Nepal, South and Central Asia, World news
The Wall of Shadows review – climbing film overturns smiling Sherpa stereotype
Eliza Kubarska’s documentary follows the plight of the Nepalis expected to take huge risks to aid western leis…
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A Night of Knowing Nothing review – kaleidoscopic doc is cinephilia at its best
Payal Kapadia’s award-winning film sees artistic creativity go hand in hand with the fight for political freed…
- Afghanistan, Animation in film, Culture, Denmark, Documentary films, Europe, Film, LGBT rights, South and Central Asia, World news
Flee review – fantastically moving story of a refugee’s life-saving secret
This extraordinary tale of the desperate lengths a gay Afghan man was forced to go to in order to escape perse…
- Afghanistan, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Iraq, Media, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, WikiLeaks, World news
There Will Be No More Night review – chilling meditation on modern warfare
Éléonore Weber’s documentary, air-strike footage of pilots on night missions, could work well in a galleryThis…
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Piano to Zanskar review – charming doc on a quixotic musical mission
Michal Sulima follows piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe’s expedition to transport a piano to a village school high …