37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (NC)

Behind that cookery-programme title is an ethnographic documentary about the Parmir Kirghiz (right), a Central Asian mountain tribe which has been shunted from country to country over the past century. The tribespeople are genial interviewees, and they give the dramatic reconstructions a lift by acting out scenes from their eventful history themselves.

But what sets this documentary apart is the way the director intrudes on the story. Adopting a post-Nick Broomfield persona, Ben Hopkins keeps focusing on his interactions with the Parmi Kirghiz, instead of the tribe's own accounts of war, exodus and yoghurt.