The new documentary Tina Arena: Unravel Me celebrates the groundbreaking Australian performer’s 50 year career.
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Race Around the World emphasises on-screen personalities, light entertainment and not-too-critical feedback. What is being left unsaid?
Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.
Our cinema expert brings you the best (and a few of the worst) at this year’s film festival in the capital.
Today, Sal Paradise would have a podcast. And I am not convinced that it would be much different from some of the worst of the manosphere.
The beauty of the cinematography in Mother Vera is almost hypnotic.
A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but how close you got to reality.
The 90-minute film depicts Vladimir Putin in the gym, the kitchen and musing about how the West is responsible for trying to bring down Russia.
A Cold War coup, an Indigenous residential school, #MeToo trials and war in Ukraine and Palestine: a guide to the Oscars 2025 documentary nominees.
Despite winning awards at festival after festival, the film has been unable to find a company to distribute it in the US.
This is a film about how we tell stories through dance.
The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living culture.
This audio visual masterpiece brilliantly captures the history of British reggae music.
A study of images of soldiers from the Crimean to the Iraq War examined how images may be just as significant for what they leave out as for what they reveal about soldiers as individuals.
Documenting Spain’s #metoo moment, the film articulates women’s fury at the deeply entrenched sexism and misogyny that permeates Spanish society and culture.
Artdocfest 2024 was a showcase for films that show the reality of the war in Ukraine, and the spread of Russian politics to neighbouring countries.
A focus on financial compensation for subjects of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ overshadowed the need to examine storytelling conventions and creative practices in contemporary documentary filmmaking.
The film tells the story of Troy Lovegrove, a seven-year-old Australian boy who became HIV-infected during birth.
How does one successfully navigate obstacles such as extreme weather, a tight deadline and a spontaneous shot list in a foreign country on a 360 project as a solo cinematographer?
The extraordinary documentary Ballaké Sissoko: Kora Tales takes a journey from Mali to The Gambia.
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