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London Film Festival · 2022

London Film Festival 2022

Documentary Competition

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8 films · 3 reviews

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All That Breathes

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Sen could easily just have made an observational documentary about the brothers' day-to-day work or simply focused on the kites themselves but he stretches its wings much further than that.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

(Country: UK, India; Year: 2022; Director: Shaunak Sen; Stars: Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad)

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Casa Susanna (Casa Susana)

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By shining a light on the past, Lifshitz lights a beacon for people who feel outcast in today's world.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.

(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Lifshitz; Writer: Sébastien Lifshitz)

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The Future Tense

A meditation on being Irish in England.

(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy)

Kanaval: A People's History Of Haiti in Six Chapters

Portraits of the country as it prepares for its carnival.

(Country: Haiti, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton Mills)

Lynch/Oz

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe)

Name Me Lawand

Portrait of a young Deaf Kurdish boy.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Edward Lovelace)

What About China?

A cultural critique of China that resists the idea of a single historical narrative.

(Country: China, US; Year: 2022; Director: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh; Writer: Trinh Minh-ha Trinh)