Many believe he was simply the greatest racing driver who ever lived. Aryton Senna exploded onto the world of Formula One racing in the mid 80s, and spent the next decade as the sport’s brightest star and becoming an icon in his native Brazil. Shattering records wherever he went, he lived life on the edge, both on and off the track. His intense rivalry with world champion Alain Prost became the stuff of motor-racing legend. Two-time Bafta winning director Asif Kapadia grippingly tells Senna’s story entirely through archival images, crafting it to play like a nail-biting drama. Two years in the edit, the film was culled from 15,000 hours of material, from pioneering miniature in-car cameras to driver’s only meetings. A triumph in documentary storytelling, this film is scooping up accolades wherever it goes, including the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award.

(Sheffield)