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Documentary films

July 2024

  • USA. Brooklyn, New York. September 11, 2001. Young people relax during their lunch break along the East River while a huge plume of smoke rises from Lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center.

    Thomas Hoepker obituary

  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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    The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

  • Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living

  • Uncanny Me review – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions

  • Agent of Happiness review – serene, slow-burning documentary from Bhutan

  • Eno review – exhilarating Brian Eno documentary that’s different at every screening

  • The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  • Melbourne international film festival 2024: 10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

  • ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

  • Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

  • The Commandant’s Shadow review – family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

  • ‘How do we stop this?’ Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

  • Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

  • Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

  • The Pawnshop review – humour and humanity in Poland’s massive second hand shop

  • Orlando, My Political Biography review – inventive spin on Virginia Woolf’s novel

  • ‘It’s easier than life on the ground’: meet the Russian climbers who fell in love scaling the world’s skyscrapers

  • ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

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