The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021) Documentary Review – An empowering albeit simplistic portrait of an unacknowledged eco-activist
Jim Becket, Camilla Becket’s The Seeds of Vandana Shiva is an important documentary, not because it sheds light on one…
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The Smell of Money (2022) Movie Review: An Impactful Documentary that Captures the Battle but Plays It Too Safe
The Smell of Money (2022) Movie Review: You are hungry. And suddenly, you have this craving for pork. While making…
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The World is Family (2023) ‘DIFF’ Movie Review: Anand Patwardhan’s funny and moving documentary binds the nation and home
Anand Patwardhan’s new documentary, The World is Family, is intimate and epic in scope, where decades of personal history are…
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) ‘BFI-LFF’ Documentary Review: An unglorified look at the culture that bred a “voodoo priestess” and then destroyed her
Documentary makers love the 60s. It was a truly unique decade in modern history, bursting at the seams with rockers,…
A Common Sequence (2023) ‘BFI-LFF’ Documentary Review: A microcosmic look at humanity’s grim fate through genetically engineered salamanders and government-owned DNA
Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser’s experimental documentary is made for the patient, the inquisitive, and the apopheniac. On the…
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‘Against The Tide’: Sarvnik Kaur’s Sundance-Winning Documentary about Mumbai Koli fishermen to have its South Asian Premier at Jio MAMI Mumbai International Film Festival 2023
After securing a prestigious Special Jury Prize in Vérité Filmmaking at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Sarvnik Kaur’s internationally acclaimed…
Celluloid Underground (2023) ‘BFI-LFF’ Documentary Review – A poetic ode to the ones who dared to dream celluloid dreams
The British Film Institute is renowned for not only bringing new voices to light— through the BFI Academy and Future…
Origin (2023) ‘Venice Film Festival’ Movie Review: A Manipulative Biographical Drama That Should Have Been a Documentary
Origin, directed by Oscar-nominated U.S. filmmaker Ava DuVernay, tackles the difficult task of exposing the hierarchical and unequal structure at…
Pictures of Ghosts (2023) ‘CIFF’ Documentary Review: Kleber Mendonca Filho gifts an invigorating, impish ode to cinemas and the city
To watch Kleber Mendonca Filho’s latest documentary, Pictures of Ghosts (Original Title: Retratos Fantasmas), is to partake in a giddying,…