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Blue Planet II
Arts DocumentaryFreddie MetherellDecember 11, 2017

Blue Planet II

The last seven weekends have been spent with eyes pasted firmly on the television set, proving Blue Planet II is unsurpassable.

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25th Raindance Arts Documentary FilmBilly PerrigoSeptember 28, 2017September 29, 2017

Speak Up (À voix haute, la force de la parole)

Speak Up is a stylish, moving, funny, and well-paced documentary. But most importantly, makes you smile. Released in France as À voix haute, la force de la parole, we caught its UK premiere this Wednesday.

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25th Raindance Arts Documentary FilmBilly PerrigoSeptember 27, 2017November 27, 2017

Bluefin: Tuna fishing’s catch-22

In the small fishing village of North Lake, Canada, people remember when the tuna went away. Now they’re back in numbers, and so is North Lake’s reputation as the “tuna capital of the world”. But scientists claim stocks are down by 90% globally, and these normally wary tuna are so hungry that they will now…

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Arts Documentary In DepthBilly PerrigoSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 2017

‘Siblings’ world premiere: A tale of Mexico and America from below

Siblings is a film of two halves, two stories which play out on different sides of the Mexican-American border. It is about love and abandonment, illegal immigration and populism, and three real people whose voices we seldom hear in the age of Trump and his ‘beautiful wall’.

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25th Raindance Arts Documentary In DepthBilly PerrigoSeptember 25, 2017November 27, 2017

Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry

“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.

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25th Raindance Arts Documentary FilmBilly PerrigoSeptember 24, 2017

On Yoga, or ‘How white people learned to stop worrying and love the om’

The seething tourist trap of Leicester Square in central London might not seem the ideal location for a screening of a film about peace, tranquility, and deep questions about human nature.

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