‘The Russian trap.’ In the shadow of the war in Ukraine, an invisible frontline has been taking shape in Europe. From Estonia to Norway, Le Monde met with military officers to investigate this hybrid war, already a reality on Europe’s northern borders.
Christo Grozev, forced to flee Austria for his journalistic investigation of secret Russian operations, is the central focus of a dynamic and powerful story Finally getting a release after the verdict in the Bulgarian spy-ring trial, James Jonesโs grip…
The US presidentโs new imperialism could make real the apocalyptic world depicted by cold war filmmakersIn 1965, the British government blocked the BBC from broadcasting The War Game, a pseudo-documentary film it had commissioned depicting just what a …
In todayโs newsletter: Pjotr Sauer explains Russiaโs response to the new Trump administration following a fraught week in global relationsGood morning. In his address to Congress last night, Donald Trump recited a letter from Volodymyr Zelenskyy offeri…
Northvolt, which claims to run Europeโs first homegrown gigafactory, admits it depends on Chinese suppliers for cathode active materialThe Swedish startup Northvolt has admitted that a vital component of its batteries is imported amid claims that the c…
Shot in 2019, Alisa Kovalenkoโs moving film follows the friends after they win a competition to travel to the HimalayasBefore Russiaโs invasion in 2022, the eastern region of Donbas in Ukraine had already experienced some of the bloodshed that was soon…
‘The Dynasty’ effectively traces how those close to the Hungarian prime minister have become miraculously wealthy alongside his political career for at least 15 years.
Goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel reflects on his Champions League triumph, on-pitch aggression, double-agent dad and son Kasper in a fan-friendly documentaryThis is a pretty respectable entry in the current corporate-landfill era of sports documentaries. It…
FT documentary investigates rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs
A documentary estimates that exploitation of this ‘white gold’ has earned companies and the Danish state โฌ54 billion. While the figures are disputed by economists, they’re fueling pro-independence rhetoric in Nuuk.
A year after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Oscar-winning documentary producer of the 2022 film “Navalny” has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her memories of him. Odessa Rae spent over three months living with the Russian disside…
Olga Chernykhโs portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distanceFormally inventive and emotionally resonant, Olga Chernykhโs documentary feature debut highlights the p…
Documentary about the Portuguese colonial exhibition of 1934 aims to expose historical prejudice but inadvertently reinforces its racist gaze For a film that grapples with the legacy of colonialism, Marta Pessoaโs documentary begins with a rather provo…
Robert Hendy-Freegard, the subject of a Netflix documentary, injured two gendarmes at his home in 2022A British conman who featured in a Netflix documentary has been sentenced to six years in prison by a French court for deliberately ramming two police…
Directing duo Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler subtly subvert the postcard-perfect ideals of the north Adriatic coast in this engrossingly odd documentaryAll the familiar pleasures of a beach getaway โ seafood feasts, open-air concerts, lazy lounges…
One of Irelandโs most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinรฉad OโSheaโs thoroughly enjoyable documentarySinรฉad OโSheaโs documentary portrait of the author Edna OโBrien is a reminder that most writers โ …
It’s safe to say Donald Trump won’t be pleased by one entry on the list.
The old-fashioned competition, now the subject of a documentary, shows how far the country has come
Slovenia has drawn global attention and its fair share of misinterpretation. Now its residents are saying enough is enough.
Trump’s former chief strategist fears his old boss won’t make a clean break and stop military aid to Kyiv.
Musk’s support for controversial rabble-rouser sparked a backlash among British politicians.
X owner and Donald Trump ally accused of spreading “poison” after he backs jailed activist.
X owner said a documentary by the English Defense League co-founder was “worth watching.”
The first stirrings of revolt behind the Iron Curtain are retold in this intriguing documentary hybridIf the fall of the Berlin Wall has a prehistory, maybe there is an integral part, or even the beginning: the December 1970 protests in Poland against …
Documentary-maker Julian Evans rekindles a 30-year romance with the country and finds warmth in desperate circumstances
Film-maker Guido Hendrikx goes house-to-house in a Dutch suburb, ringing doorbells and then mutely filming โ we see what people will say and do to fill the silenceDutch film-maker Guido Hendrikx has given us a funny but also somewhat slippery and disin…
Grab the popcorn. “The Prime Minister vs. the Blob” is coming to no cinemas near you.
This quietly compelling documentary tells the stories of a select group of people as they cope with Christmas with hardship and humourA modest film with modest ambitions, this is a documentary that paints a portrait of a small Irish town at Christmas, …
Lucie Krรกlovรกโs daring documentary uses a choir and an original libretto to recount the story of the renegade Czech musicianRetelling the complicated life of prolific Czech composer Jan Kapr, Lucie Krรกlovรกโs category-defying documentary harmonises the …
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy report finds trade flows have shown no signs of returning to previous levelsBusiness live โ latest updatesExports of British food to the EU have dropped by nearly ยฃ3bn a year since Brexit, a trade thinktank has said, w…
Documentary following a ceramicist and a painter who have joined the battle to defend against the Russian invasion is perhaps a little too picturesqueCompared with the award-winning The Earth Is As Blue As an Orange from 2020, which charted a Ukrainian…
Ruth Beckermannโs compassionate documentary is testament to a diverse group of delightful seven-year-olds and the brilliance of their dedicated teacherThere are some big personalities in the class of seven-year-olds in an inner city Vienna primary scho…
Testimonies against former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed have multiplied since a BBC documentary was broadcast in September, reporting multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault allegedly committed by the Egyptian businessman, who died in 2023.
London’s Metropolitan Police has opened a new investigation into the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, identifying 90 alleged sexual assault victims. Triggered by a BBC documentary in September, over 400 women and witnesses have come forward, promp…
Nikolay Stefanovโs documentary, which follows fans of FC Minyor Pernik, reveals much about what is behind this toxic masculinityIn the Bulgarian mining town of Pernik, a weekend football match is not for the faint of heart. Dressed in the black and yel…
Mickaรซl Bandelaโs documentary reflects on the events that left him in care as a child, and the generational losses that came beforeWhen he was a few months old, film-maker Mickaรซl Bandela was put into the care of his foster mother Marie-Thรฉrรจse, after …
Sibling of murder victim says it is โdifficult to understandโ purpose of eight-part series co-produced by KnoxMeredith Kercher โwill always be remembered for her own fight for lifeโ, the sister of the murdered British student has said as filming began …
A new documentary from Errol Morris examines how Trumpโs family separation policy sparked widespread outrage โ and how the government eventually looked the other way.
Cey Sesiguzelโs documentary covers a lot of history โ and not always in the most dynamic way. But the testimony of survivors of war forms its powerful coreFifty years have passed since the 1974 partition of Cyprus, a harrowing event that looms large ov…
Undercover journalists infiltrate a group promoting racial, eugenics-based theories funded by a US tech entrepreneur
The account might be settled with the Hamas leader, the debt paid โ but the war is not over. This is just the beginning of the end.
Using World of Warcraft-style animation, this documentary tells the story of Mats Steen, a boy with muscular dystrophy whose online popularity was only revealed after his deathItโs probably just an accident of scheduling, but this deeply affecting docu…
Cรฉline Pernet places a number of willing volunteers in front of a camera and asks them a series of candid questions, and the responses form a fascinating tapestry of experienceIn an era where conversations between strangers often take place through scr…
Fifteenth century explorerโs true origins revealed after DNA analysis from samples buried in Seville CathedralThe centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbusโs nationality has been revealed by scientists in a Spanish TV documentary after using DNA …
Research seeking to solve the mystery of the legendary explorer’s birthplace will feature in a documentary.
Documentary claims a Canadian developer is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
The revelation could send shockwaves through cryptocurrency markets and beyond.
Reports and pictures by photojournalist Pierre Crom provide a look back at how events escalated towards the Russian invasion Co-directed by photojournalist Pierre Crom and film-maker Juri Rechinsky, this gripping documentary revisits the harrowing even…
The French far-right wants to make the best out of a complication situation during a trial which could potentially bar Le Pen from running for president in 2027.
Some 60 women have come forward with new allegations since a BBC documentary aired last week detailing sexual assault claims against Mohamed Al-Fayed, the former owner of Harrod’s department store and the Paris Ritz. A former executive assistant at th…
Following a BBC documentary, ‘Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods,’ which aired claims that Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed had sexually abused women linked to the department store, the women’s lawyers said they ‘now represent 60 survivors.’
“Concrete steps must also be taken,” Alexander De Croo told the pontiff.
โIt’s a very, very strange week,โ said a filmmaker who documented the clerical assaults.
The actions follow a series of Russian air operations that skirted Alaskan airspace and as Russian and Chinese warships conducted joint exercises across the Pacific.
“The Arctic is not the territory of the North Atlantic alliance,โ Kremlin Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns.
In Marseille, I find agency bosses desperate to fill shifts, families desperate to secure care for loved ones and a system that places no value on the workWho keeps Europeโs wealthy west going? Underpaid, invisible migrants from its east โ and I went u…
Women’s rights, climate change, colonialism, harassment in school, the war in Ukraine are the topics covered by the three fiction (including an animated feature) and two documentary films that were nominated for theย LUX Audience Film Award 2025, on Wed…
Orla Barry clearly has a true vocation for her flock, both handling real livestock and weaving them into her art and this documentary has poetic beautyNear the beginning of this beautiful, brooding film, Orla Barry (its subject/writer/narrator) remembe…
Hours before Keir Starmer meets Joe Biden to discuss Ukraine, Moscow accuses London of escalatory actions.
Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.
A sense of inevitable finality permeates every frame of Marusya Syroechkovskayaโs documentary, composed of personal footage shot over a decadeAt the age of 16, in 2005, Marusya Syroechkovskaya was already certain that she would die young. โEveryone kno…
Anastasia Trofimovaโs film Russians at War criticised for โdistorted picture of realityโ in Ukraine after Venice premiereA new documentary portraying the lives of Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian frontlines has faced fierce criticism for attempting …
Ukrainian politicians and cultural figures on Friday (6 September) slammed a screening of a Russian-Canadian filmmaker’s war documentary as propaganda, a claim the director denied.
To watch this documentary about the one-time comedianโs astonishing journey to statesmanship is to feel that youโre witnessing the birth of a heroItโs such an astonishing story that you wouldnโt dare make it up. And yet someone already had, which is pa…
A new three-part documentary has first-hand access to the president and his wife, Olena
How a TV star playing a fictional leader went on to lead Ukraine. Plus: Rob and Romesh perform a Metallica classic at Download. Hereโs what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two
It is not a new story, but it is remarkable and almost unbelievable โ the TV …
Ihor Ivankoโs documentary looks at his grandfather Leonid Burlakaโs career through a treasure trove of undeveloped photos and explores the role film has in preserving historyA labour of love, Ihor Ivankoโs documentary pays tribute to his grandfather Le…
This elegiac Irish film documents the relationship between street artist Asbestos and his mother, and the public art project he makes to help process his griefA strange but reassuring ouroboros effect is in place in Ross Killeenโs documentary about dem…
This yearโs Les Rencontres dโArles photography festival pays homage to female artists amid a dystopian squint, highlighting overlooked worlds.
Unconventional marriage of Princess Mรคrtha Louise and Durek Vellet celebrated with three-day schedule of events and a documentary to followShe is the clairvoyant daughter of one of Europeโs longest-serving monarchs; he is a self-styled sixth-generatio…
Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says directorA new documentary on the Nazisโ favourite film-maker and lead propagandist Leni Riefenstahl suggests she was a direct witness to murdero…
This plucky documentary tells of the small town whose residents created its first football pitch, and the years that followed chasing their goalSet in Hellissandur, Iceland, population 369, this modest documentary tells the story of how the village got…
Kevin Macdonaldโs documentary digs out the roots of the clash between Ukraineโs hero president and the former boxer in charge of its capitalThe bad blood between Vitali Klitschko, former heavyweight champ and now mayor of Kyiv, and Ukraineโs hero pres…
The director was having trouble making his documentary about Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir emotional and dramatic. But when the mayor was blamed for two bomb shelter deaths, everything changedIโm not a war correspondent. But itโs 3am and, l…
Faustine Crosโs documentary revisits home videos from her childhood through fresh eyes having learned as an adult what her young self had missedThere comes a point in every childโs life when they start seeing their parents not solely as all-powerful pr…
Ukraineโs war with Russia dominated the entries and trips to bomb shelters punctuated the Odesa film festival, but two rather wonderful films emergedโPlease go to the shelter NOW!โ The text message from our lovely guide comes through at about 1am. She …
There are many perspectives, and even those that seem at odds can be true at the same time.
The Oscar-winning documentary-maker was instrumental in the historic US-Russian prisoner swap, but she says, the one person missing from the deal was her friend Alexei Navalny. She talks about her last conversation with him, her new film about the Tali…
The discovery of human remains on the island of Saint Helena is the subject of a gripping, thought-provoking film
Jarring and heartbreaking documentary excavates the film-makerโs past while illuminating an abuserโs place in the cycle of violenceEnveloped in a sonic cocoon of gentle ocean waves and rustling wind, the sensorial opening of Efthymia Zymvragakiโs featu…
Daniela de Feliceโs impressionistic, sensuous documentary meditates on the romantic relationships and student activism of her youth in 1990s ItalyBittersweet memories rise like mist in Daniela de Feliceโs impressionistic, sensuous documentary recallin…
The three concerts recorded for an upcoming documentary film on the singer directed by Grammy nominee and Emmy Award winner Sam Wrench.
The son and grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hรถss appear in Daniela Volkerโs engrossing documentary, a companion piece to Zone of InterestThe first shock delivered by this engrossing documentary is probably the queasy jolt of recognition. Hans J…
Everyone is down on their luck in the biggest used-goods store in Silesia, but director ลukasz Kowalski finds beauty in many small acts of kindnessSurreptitiously funny and slyly tragic in equal measures, this Polish documentary, a debut for director ล…
Audiences step out of their comfort zone at this annual extravaganza in the historic old town of the Swiss city, where the shows are staged in eye-catching settingsLausanne has been the official Olympic capital for 30 years but for even longer this hil…
Britain’s prime minister is destined to failure. Does he even know why?
Viktor Portelโs film follows Czech investigator Vladimรญr Dzuro as he returns to sites of torture and death, and meets survivors as well as supporters of perpetratorsRevisiting the blood-soaked conflicts that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, …
This gut-punch documentary about the deaths of more than 500 asylum seekers โ and the masked men rounding up refugees โ makes a specific, horrific allegation. There should be severe consequencesWe live in an age of overlapping crises, of too many red l…
Rigorous BBC2 documentary suggests the Greek coast guard helped cause the 2023 sinking, with the loss of nearly 650 lives
BBC records former special operations chief saying abandoning people at sea was an โinternational crimeโA former Greek coastguard officer has described as โclearly illegalโ the actions of colleagues who abandoned nine migrants at sea in one of 15 alleg…
Film-maker Tomรกลก Kratochvรญl follows the story of Czech-Mancunian trucker turned activist ล tefan PongoCentring on an ordinary man with extraordinary determination, Tomรกลก Kratochvรญlโs documentary shows how one simple video can ignite a revolutionary move…
Britain’s top Brexiteer has made it his life’s work to torment the Conservative Party. This time he could reduce it to rubble.ย
Waad al-Kateabโs documentary Death Without Mercy collects agonising experience from the aftermath of 2023. She reflects on a natural disaster made much worse by politics, and how she is trying to helpWaad al-Kateab has always looked for hope, but when …
Joรฃo Rosasโs film, depicting the lives of immigrant construction workers busily gentrifying the Portuguese capital, asks important questionsFirst conceived in the weeks leading up to the birth of film-maker Joรฃo Rosasโs first child, this documentary po…
As the country prepares for the big kick-off this week the uneasy political backdrop cannot be ignored, even if some would very much like it to beโThe team is no longer German,โ explains an older gentleman in a baseball cap, calmly loading shopping int…
The Conservatives are pushing dubious claims on social media that Labour leader Keir Starmer wants to scrap the monarchy as a July 4 election looms.
The Kremlin has been accused of stepping up a hybrid destabilization campaign targeting France and the Olympics.
Lives change course after a chance encounter between a construction worker and an academic in Bas Devosโs microscopically detailed gem of a filmBelgian director Bas Devosโs gentle, delicate and quietly beguiling movie, a prize winner last year in Berli…
This peaceful nature film contemplates the creatures and critters that live in and around a 200-year-old oak, including some Top Gun-esque aerial cinematographyEntirely devoid of dialogue (unless a bit of Dean Martin on the soundtrack counts), this ple…
A recent Microsoft security report has found that Russia is ramping up its disinformation campaign against France and the upcoming Paris Olympics. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
