Where Is Heaven? review – absorbing ode to lovers of the off

F ilmed by its directors Gerard Bryan and David Rafique over 10 years, this amiable documentary profiling north Devon residents who live off-grid perhaps needed that much time to ripen in order to create a sense of narrative progress. Otherwise, it might have played like a series of cinematic snapshots of randomly selected folks who have little in common apart from a certain bolshie-minded self-sufficiency and love of rural life. That and a willingness to open up for the camera a tiny bit and let the directors snoop around their (mostly) messy but cosy homes.

No one here is what you might call a hermit, but being at ease with living alone seems to be a common trait among most of them. A few find themselves in relationships at one point or another, but their enthusiasm for other people