This beautifully-shot documentary is a visual tone poem, as filmmaker Elizabeth Lo tenderly captures several street dogs in Turkey, almost entirely from the ‘dog’s eye’ view.
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Stray (2020)
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Tag / Documentary
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Come and See (2019)
An (in)famous Buddhist temple is in crisis as religion meets politics at the heart of Thai society in this revealing documentary.
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El Sicario: Room 164 (2010)
You won’t believe that a documentary centering entirely on a masked man with a notepad in a motel room can be so compelling—and harrowing—as Rosi gives us a shocking exposé on the inner workings of drug cartels in Mexico.
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Into the Inferno (2016)
Despite not having a strong central focus and being rather all over the place—quite literally so as it covers volcanoes around the world—Herzog’s documentary remains eye-opening and culturally illuminating as it explores the myths and cults surrounding these fiery beasts of nature.
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Below Sea Level (2008)
Nomadland before Nomadland, Rosi’s raw, no holds barred documentary on folks living in isolation on buses and vans in the Californian desert finds grace and empathy in their existence.
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24 City (2008)
There’s something very deeply moving and universal about Jia’s seemingly mundane documentary about the stories of workers (and their children) who used to ply their trade in a Chengdu factory that had made way for new commercial development as China rapidly modernised in the 2000s.
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Seventh Walk, The (2013)
Dutta explores the inner psychological and creative world of an Indian artist who does charcoal painting through this mesmerising sensorial non-narrative.
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Icarus (2017)
Even if you don’t give a hoot about the Olympics, this sensational Oscar-winning documentary about state-sanctioned sports doping in Russia is eye-opening and riveting.
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Caught in the Net (2020)
Highly uncomfortable but essential viewing as this Czech documentary-cum-social experiment attempts to bring to light the dark, paedophilic world of online sexual abuse of children.
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Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (2020)
There’s probably nothing new for die-hard Blinks, but for new fans (like myself), this is a no-frills but highly-effective introduction to the four K-pop queens who are slaying the world.
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Eternality Tan 