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The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs. Read our Visions …
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Pauline Julier’s 60-minute documentary Way Beyond takes us inside CERN to follow the planning process for the Future Circular Collider. Read all of our …
Ali El-Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari is a story of friendship and soccer between two Syrian refugees in Jordan. Read all of our Visions du Réel …
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In his new documentary, 1970, Tomasz Wolski uses stop-motion animation and archival footage to illuminate telephone conversations between top communist …
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Set in March 2020, Italy, Michele Aiello's My Place is Here offers a slice of life inside a hospital right after the worst stage of the pandemic. One …
Seventh Row's editors pick the must see films of HotDocs 2021, from Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy to Archipelago. Read all our HotDocs 2021 …
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