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Documentary films

August 2024

  • Film still: Hollywoodgate (2024) directed by Ibrahim Nash'at, co-produced by Odessa Rae

    Hollywoodgate review – chilling fly-on-the-wall glimpse of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul

  • This image released by Netflix shows Aubrey Smith in a scene from "Daughters." (Netflix via AP)

    Daughters review – tender, wrenching film about a dance date for girls and their jailed dads

  • Vitali Klitschko at the site of a Russian airstrike in Kyiv.

    Klitschko: More Than a Fight review – Kyiv’s mayor confronts Zelenskiy in eye-opening Ukraine war film

  • Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

    Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

  • ‘Ballet is so punk rock’: Neve Campbell and Karen Kain on pressure, pain – and partnering Nureyev

  • ‘People’s lives have been changed’: could boxing help child abuse survivors deal with trauma?

  • Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum

  • Swan Song review – ‘punk rock’ ballet film goes behind-the-scenes to get show afloat

  • ‘Then Zelenskiy called for him to go’: Kevin Macdonald on how his film about Kyiv’s ex-boxer mayor suddenly heated up

  • A Life Like Any Other review – wonderfully moving look back at a mother’s resilience

  • ‘Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide

  • ‘Don’t kill the actors’: three friends’ quest to stage Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto

  • Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

  • Daughters review – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Rights and freedom
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

  • The Last Human review – despair and hope for Greenland youth in crosshairs of climate peril

  • ‘It’s not a theoretical proposition’: the ‘war game’ imagining a coup in the US

  • ‘I’m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness’: film-maker Odessa Rae on today’s momentous prisoner swap

July 2024

  • Maloney today in Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story.

    Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story review – trans boxing promoter fights for identity

  • Elephant Mother Press publicity film still

    Elephant Mother review – sensitive animal documentary with a happy ending

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