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Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
ByPeter Bradshaw December 3, 2025

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Re…

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Cutting Through Rocks review – the female firebrand fighting the patriarchy in rural Iran
ByPhuong Le October 13, 2025

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her pathBeing the first anything is…

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Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
ByPeter Bradshaw September 10, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisionsAt the present moment, for pro-Palestinian campaigners, mention of the hostages and victims of Hamas’s 7 October attacks …

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse
ByPhuong Le September 8, 2025

Empowering for some, deeply traumatic for others, the former detainees in Mehran Tamadon’s documentary paint a harrowing picture of systematic maltreatmentMehran Tamadon’s probing film operates a kind of dialogue with his related documentary My Worst E…

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Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse
ByPhuong Le September 8, 2025

Empowering for some, deeply traumatic for others, the former detainees in Mehran Tamadon’s documentary paint a harrowing picture of systematic maltreatmentMehran Tamadon’s probing film operates a kind of dialogue with his related documentary My Worst E…

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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona
ByLeslie Felperin August 20, 2025

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows Hassona through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bearThe rule is this: don’t spoil movies by giving away the ending, even if the events depicted are part of th…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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The Oath: to be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system
By July 30, 2025

Across the world, newly graduated medical students take an oath to uphold the ethics of medical practice. Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian living and working in Israel, teaches medical ethics as well as practising as a physician, caring for both Isr…

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