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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Thursday, October 18 at 8.30pm at BUEI This film about the Chinese government’s repression of freedom of speech is skilfully made, but at times it veers into slapstick comedy. The film’s subject, Mr Weiwei, is one of China’s mo...

Before they were tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams were little girls with cornrows playing on the public courts of Compton, an inner city suburb in Los Angeles. The Bermuda Documentary Film Festival will premiere ‘Venus and Serena’ next we...

Before there was reggae music in Jamaica, there was ‘rocksteady’, a slow and easy answer to the hectic pace of life that developed in the Caribbean in the 1960s. The Bermuda Documentary Film Festival Weekend Film Series will be showing a documentary ...

In November 2006, my husband Sven and I read a piece in The New Yorker magazine that changed our lives. In the article, ‘The Darkening Sea’, journalist Elizabeth Kolbert reported in detail on ocean acidification, which she called ‘the flip side of gl...

The Four-Year Plan 9.15pm Saturday at BUEI For anyone wondering how not to run a football club, look no further than ‘QPR: The Four-Year Pan’ — a fearless fly-on-the wall documentary following the club’s fortunes. The final scenes of the film capture...

Robert Mugabe - What Happened? 5pm Saturday at BUEI The title of this disturbing documentary says it all. How did Zimbabwean liberation hero Robert Mugabe turn into one of the world’s most oppressive and hated leaders, an internationally-reviled auto...

Fightville 9.30pm Sunday at BUEI ‘Fightville’ successfully shatters some of the negative stereotypes associated with Mixed Martial Arts and examines how the sport satisfies the primal urges of its fighters. Filmmakers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperle...

‘The Island President’ 2pm Saturday at BUEI “It won’t be any point to have democracy if we don’t have a country.” This bald statement by then-President of the Maldives Mohamed Anni Nasheed is the crux of the matter facing the country comprising over...

First Position 3pm Sunday at BUEI This beautiful documentary will have you gripped as it depicts the triumph and despair moments experienced by six talented young ballerinas. I fully expected the film to feature bratty, annoying and diva-like childre...

An award-winning documentary about the worldwide bee crisis, and a French action thriller that was nominated for a 2011 Academy Award are the featured films at the ‘Weekend Film Series’ on Sunday, June 19. ‘Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling...