Alex Heeney reviews the documentary No Other Land, one of the highlights of the Visions du Réel Festival. (It also screened the Berlinale.)
Visions du Réel
Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine
Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.
Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work
Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.
Visions du Réel Review: An Inhabited Volcano
The documentary film An Inhabited Volcano offers a personal look at the 2021 La Palma volcano eruption through WhatsApp messages.
Mutzenbacher and Man Caves explore men’s views on sex and love
In both Mutzenbacher and Man Caves, women directors interview a slew of men about their thoughts on sex and love.
‘A story about finding home’: Jonas Poher Rasmussen on Flee
Flee, the multi-award-winning animated documentary, is now in US cinemas. Here’s why animation was the best way to tell this story.