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4. Dick Johnson Is Dead

Perhaps the most widely praised documentary out of Sundance 2020 - and also the winner of the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling - Dick Johnson Is Dead follows director Kirsten Johnson as she ponders her father's dementia through the lens of filmmaking itself.

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Father and daughter conceive and act out a number of surreal dramatisation of ways in which her father could die, which reviewers have dubbed a triumph of black comedy both infectiously hilarious and emotionally devastating.

For anyone craving a left-field documentary which plays with the form in a truly creative and heartfelt way, look no further.

Dick Johnson is Dead is released on Netflix on October 2nd.

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