Documentary
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Fish Story: the truth about an Anglesey gathering of people with fishy surnames - videoFish Story - the truth behind a fishy tale
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Risk review – serviceable portrait of Julian Assange's vanityLaura Poitras’s documentary about the WikiLeaks founder captures his creepy conceit and celebrity hauteur but leaves important questions unasked
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Kedi review – slinking around with the street cats of IstanbulDirector Ceyda Torun trails the sleek and eerie feline population of the Turkish city in a sweet-natured documentary
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The best films of 2017 so farLa La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues
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Watch the fur fly: why cat films are better than dog filmsFilms with cats are cool and mysterious. Mutt movies are a soppy wet lick to the face. No surprise then which Hollywood favours
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Nowhere: a response to the housing crisis by poet Tony Walsh – audioThe poet, writer and performer who grew up in social housing in Manchester performs a specially composed poem in response to issues raised in the documentary Dispossession: The Great Housing Swindle
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Edith Walks review – a walk on the wild sideAndrew Kötting explores the legacy of King Harold and his wife in this wonderfully eccentric film
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Decent homes for all… Has the social housing dream died?As a new documentary on the disastrous legacy of Thatcher’s right-to-buy policy shows, the dream of decent homes for all is in crisis. What can be done?
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – an unconventional portrait of an unconventional manFour short tributes to the writer, featuring Tilda Swinton, are a celebration of independent thought
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Summer in the Forest review – affecting study of Jean Vanier's vision of peace and loveThis documentary about the Catholic author who created the L’Arche community for people with learning disabilities traces his activism and faith from wartime to today
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Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press review – Hulk v Gawker in portrait of wealthy arroganceThis new documentary feature examines Hulk Hogan’s case against Gawker highlighting other wealthy figures aggressively seeking to silence the press
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – Tilda Swinton leads lavish praiseThe Okja actor joins a refreshing celebration of the late Ways of Seeing writer – plus a hilarious lesson in how to ride a motorbike
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From Dig! to Jungletown – how Ondi Timoner is 'kicking the door down' for female filmmakersWith debut TV series Jungletown on air and a film about Robert Mapplethorpe in production, documentary maker Ondi Timoner talks about her gallery of impossible visionaries, falling out with Russell Brand, and why female directors have to ‘kick the door down’
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Whitney: Can I Be Me review – but what about her voice?Nick Broomfield’s documentary about Whitney Houston is moving but focuses too much on her breakdown
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‘I made a love letter to the city and the cats’Street cats have roamed Istanbul for centuries. As a film starring some of them opens, director Ceyda Torun explains why the likes of ‘Psycho’ and ‘Hustler’ are so at home there
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Chalk Girl: the protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement – videoTwo years after becoming an accidental hero of Hong Kong’s umbrella pro-democracy movement when she was arrested, the 16-year-old is torn between wanting to respect her family’s fears about the risks of her activism and standing up to Chinese interference, rejoining the battle alongside the localists fighting to save their city
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A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey review – unflinching look at war photographerA documentary about the award-winning photographer Jason P Howe focuses on the motivation behind the seeming heroism of working on the frontlines
The protest and power of disability activism: 'It's not as sexy as gay rights or climate change'