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Waves Turn review – the exhausting, joyful, boring, wondrous realities of new motherhood

Josephine Ahnelt’s gentle but truthful documentary has home-movie intimacy and some incredibly touching moments

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

Valentina and the MUOSters review – US military surveillance in Sicily triggers family discord on the ground

A young woman strives for self-reliance as local people protest the US military communications system that has landed in their rural town

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27

Anhell69 review – an impassioned eulogy for Colombia’s queer renegades

Theo Montoya collages an unfinished phantom horror film, gothic Medellín cityscapes and interviews with lost friends into a transgressive work of cine-protest

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2025

The Safest Place in the World review – the true cost of a lethal Brazilian dam collapse

Aline Lata and Helena Wolfenson’s moving documentary shows the after-effects of the 2015 Mariana dam failure and the psychological damage which is still being felt

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2023

‘Time-lapse’ film-maker Helena Třeštíková: ‘Every life is interesting enough to produce a story’

As a season of the Czech director’s remarkable 7 Up-style documentaries comes to a streaming channel, she talks about filming under communism, funding projects that take decades to complete and forging relationships with unruly protagonists

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2023

Factory to the Workers review – riveting portrait of idealism struggling against the forces of capitalism

This documentary about the last remaining co-operative factory in Croatia is a rare example of a production that’s as radical as its subject: all the people featured are sharing in the film’s profits

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Zinder review – a startling look at swastika-waving gang life in Niger

Aicha Macky’s documentary spends time with the damaged and dangerous men who call themselves after Hitler, and investigates the vicious cycle caused by poverty and lack of education

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

The American Sector review – US road trip to hunt down remnants of the Berlin Wall

This film tells the story of concrete slabs that have been rehomed thousands of miles away in bizarre yet unremarkable locations

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2023

The Wire review – locals deal with razor-sharp border fence in migrant study

Documentary sheds light on responses to a fence designed to keep migrants of the EU Schengen area, a dizzyingly complex issue

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023