Documentary films
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‘The heaven of film-making’: how a Dalit orphan got to tell her own story
A gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries• I Am Belmaya…
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I Am Belmaya review – uplifting story of a Nepali woman following her film-making dream
In the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-makerAfter s…
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Romantic Road review – upper-class boomers on a polite Bollywood adventure
An elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this…
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The Beatles and India review – the fab four go looking for a guru
This engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefl…
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‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers expla…
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Yeh Freedom Life review – a passionate slice of queer Delhi life
Beauty technician Sachi and cigarette seller Parveen yearn for ‘freedom lives’ where they can proudly flaunt t…
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Hong Kong film censors get wider ‘national security’ powers
Observers worry rule change in Chinese city will restrict pro-democracy movement even furtherHong Kong’s censo…
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Pariah Dog review – lyrical portrait of Kolkata’s canine carers
This heartfelt documentary focuses on free-ranging dogs and the people on the fringes of Indian society who ca…
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That Cloud Never Left review – experimental ruminations on cinema and labour
Mundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toys…
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Sing Me a Song review – sombre Bhutanese internet love story
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addict…
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Cemetery review – elephant heads for the graveyard in hardcore art piece
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity…
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‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out | Lucy Lamble
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during …
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The Run review – ultra-marathon documentary trips up
A film charting Pat Farmer’s 4,600km dash across India piles on the platitudes, reducing an amazing odyssey to…