Ben Rivers' collaborations with Jake Williams include the experimental portraits This Is My Land, Bogancloch, and Two Years at Sea.
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Wang Bing's latest observational opus Youth (Spring) captures the daily toils of young labourers in China's garment district.
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Ha Le Diem's Children of the Mist is a powerful observational documentary about the practice of bride-kidnapping in Vietman's Hmong community.
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Far Beyond the Pasturelands is an observational portrait of Lalita, a young Nepali woman who embarks on the annual harvest for the coveted fungus yarsagumba.
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Joële Walinga's Self-Portrait examines what humans have created on this planet using found surveillance footage and layered soundscapes.
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The international juries at Hot Docs this year favoured slow cinéma vérité If the feature winner Ostrov – Lost Island exemplifies the limitations of the art form with its lethargic portrait of
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Winner of this year’s Best International Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs, Ostrov – Lost Island is a stark portrait of a community abandoned. The film visits the titular island in the
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Notturno is observational cinema at in its most provocative and poetic form. A film doesn’t need any words when the images are so strong.
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