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As his cherished only child prepared to leave home, documentary-maker Doug Block came to terms with it by making a film of her childhood and teenage years. How does he justify the often excruciatingly intrusive footage?

My family, the enemy

Israeli film-maker Noa Ben-Hagai went in search of a forgotten great-aunt and found cousins who are Palestinian Arabs. What happened next?

After Stanley Kubrick

Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology – and why her uncle made films for Goebbels, writes Jon Ronson

Natascha McElhone: My grief

Actor Natascha McElhone was pregnant with her third child when her husband collapsed and died. She talks to Emma Brockes about the diary of her loss