As the #BBC lurches from crisis to crisis, I took a look at its mantra of impartiality – what it means, where it came from, who calls it, and how you stand up to those who would game it.
Or, as it turns out, not…
Or, as it turns out, not…
The Explainer: What Is British Impartiality (And Can It Survive)?
How the BBC elevated impartiality to its “very essence” amid documentary cancellations and regulatory pressures, and whether this embattled value can survive partisan challenges
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November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
As the #BBC lurches from crisis to crisis, I took a look at its mantra of impartiality – what it means, where it came from, who calls it, and how you stand up to those who would game it.
Or, as it turns out, not…
Or, as it turns out, not…
Reposted by Nick Bradshaw
“Claude Barras’s follow-up to his justly celebrated 2016 debut My Life as a Courgette shares with that film a commitment to placing its big-eyed, brightly painted clay-model innocents in dark corners of the real world”
@nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Savages review: tree no evil
An 11-year-old rescues an orangutan orphaned by loggers in Claude Barras’s unsurprising but vibrantly designed follow-up to 2016 hit My Life as a Courgette.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Claude Barras’s follow-up to his justly celebrated 2016 debut My Life as a Courgette shares with that film a commitment to placing its big-eyed, brightly painted clay-model innocents in dark corners of the real world”
@nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
For @documentary.org, I took the measure of last month's @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, its platforming of deplatformed political filmmakers, visions of Palestine and more from Ukraine, and four great finds (including my favourites, A Simple Soldier and The Gas Station Attendant)
Sheffield DocFest 2025: Tender Shoots
“Always balance, everything in balance,” intones Raul Niño Zambrano, all smiles and relaxed on the last morning of his fourth year as creative director of Sheffield DocFest. It’s an aspirational mantr...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
For @documentary.org, I took the measure of last month's @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, its platforming of deplatformed political filmmakers, visions of Palestine and more from Ukraine, and four great finds (including my favourites, A Simple Soldier and The Gas Station Attendant)
Meanwhile this year's CPH:DOX awards are out cphdox.dk/cphdox-2025-... and the jury is right – Deming Chen's Always is exquisite, a tone poem on youth, wonder and sensitivity, as I wrote for this year's Ekko critics' panel: www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...
CPH:DOX 2025 announces award winners - CPH:DOX
The juries have deliberated and the winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2025 have been announced this evening at the festival’s Award Show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The internationa...
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March 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Meanwhile this year's CPH:DOX awards are out cphdox.dk/cphdox-2025-... and the jury is right – Deming Chen's Always is exquisite, a tone poem on youth, wonder and sensitivity, as I wrote for this year's Ekko critics' panel: www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...
Here's one I caught a year ago, at CPH:DOX 2024. It looked good then (www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...) and it grows on you –
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other review
New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett take stock of their 30-year marriage, contemplating mortality, equality and how to move forward together, in this richly artful document...
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March 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's one I caught a year ago, at CPH:DOX 2024. It looked good then (www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...) and it grows on you –
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...