War Paint? Women at War (12A)

Following her documentary on artist Eric Ravilious and his wartime paintings, director Margy Kinmonth turns her attention to the little-explored subject of women war artists and their perspective on conflict. Presented as a series of profiles and interviews, the narrative features official war artists Dame Laura Knight, who famously depicted the Nuremberg trials in 1946, and Falkland war artist Linda Kitson, as well as photographer Lee Miller and Maggi Hambling, among others. But probably Kinmouth’s most compelling subjects are those working in active war zones, such as Ukrainian Zhanna Kadyrova making work from found objects, and Sudanese graffiti artist Assil Diab, who paints murals of the forgotten dead. The essential question is, what do women see that men don’t?