Spotlight: Documentary
Film Fest Report is proud to support documentary as a diverse and immensely rich cinematic form, crucial to understanding our contemporary world.
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Visions du Réel 2026: Saudades Eternas (dir. Emma Boccanfuso) | Review
In the heart of the favela, Emma Boccanfuso portrays a vibrant, deeply endearing matriarch who turns her home into a…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Dentro (dir. Elsa Amiel) | Review
Elsa Amiel offers an immersion into the creative work of the "Compagnia della Fortezza" and its director, centered around the…
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Visions du Réel 2026: For Life (dir. Ahmet Seven) | Review
Ahmet Seven delivers a gripping and deeply moving film about an overwhelming will to live, set in a land where…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Guided Tour (dir. Alba Jaramillo) | Review
"Guided Tour" deftly depicts, with both narrative and formal ingenuity, a very real curse: the one left behind by those…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Nicole Nicole (dir. Lauren Dällenbach) | Review
Touching and luminous, "Nicole Nicole" offers an intimate, family-centered narrative that tenderly captures a journey of emancipation as unconventional as…
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CPH:DOX 2026: Whispers in May (dir. Dongnan Chen) | Review
In rural China, Dongnan Chen crafts a luminous, delicately poetic film about young girls whom life compels to grow up…
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CPH:DOX 2026: Let Our Mountains Live (dir. Håvard Bustnes) | Review
Up close with the Sámi people—whose rights are being undermined by Europe’s largest wind farm project in Norway—filmmaker Håvard Bustnes…
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CPH:DOX 2026: The Cord (dir. Nolwenn Hervé) | Review
A moving and urgent portrait of a woman working tirelessly to patch the failures of the healthcare system, "The Cord"…
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CPH:DOX 2026: Christiania (dir. Karl Friis Forchhammer) | Review
In search of his origins, Karl Friis Forchhammer uses cinema to tell the story of a unique neighborhood, unfolding like…
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CPH:DOX 2026: Scarlet Girls (dir. Paula Cury Melo) | Review
Through a mosaic of poignant testimonies, Paula Cury Melo reveals the deep pain and injustice that Dominican women are forced…
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