The year of the artist documentary
Hussain Currimbhoy, film programmer for Sheffield Doc/Fest, shares some of his favorite films from the last year of docs. he gestured to the space between her legs and said: “This is where my family’s...
View ArticleSomewhere between fiction, non-fiction and art
Tine Fischer, director of CPH:DOX, shares some of her favourite films from the last year of docs. THE ACT OF KILLING Directors Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous, Denmark, Indonesia, UK,...
View ArticleBehold the Man
Luciano Barisone, director of Visions du Réel, shares some of his favourite films from the past year of documentary. o choose films that outline a road map implies a task – to define one’s state of...
View ArticleTHE CAPACITY FOR SURPRISE
Director of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Marek Hovorka, shares his favourite docs from the last year Every year, my colleagues and I struggle through thousands of films – a...
View Article» Just one size too small
DUMMY JIMDirector Matt Hulse,UK, 2013, 90 min. Dummy Jim is a film about James Duthie, a deaf traveller. It is a film with an exuberant visual style, and a creative soundtrack as well. But when does...
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One film at a time?
Peter Wintonick & Orwa Nyrabia PW: Last month, in Amsterdam working to prep IDFA, I discovered that I have one of the rarest forms of liver cancer. The Dutch medical system is excellent, but I...
View Article» The Promised Land
Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking aims to create a space and a future in the broad media landscape for marginalized youths in South Africa. The foundations of Big Fish stem back to 1995, in the...
View Article» Wintry exoticism
PIPELINEDirector: Vitaly Mansky,Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, 2013, 121 min. Three crosses in the snow – not Christian ones, different ones. They are the starting point of a journey from the Urengoy...
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» THE CAPACITY FOR SURPRISE
Director of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Marek Hovorka, shares his favourite docs from the last year Every year, my colleagues and I struggle through thousands of films – a...
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The language of flowers
Rada Sesic & Martichka Bozhilova RS: When I was asked by Vibeke to participate in this interesting talking platform of DOX, I thought, the best partner to discuss the regional documentary scene...
View Article» Sheffield, part two
Over the past days, being isolated in Sheffield and trying to keep being informed about what went on in the rest of the world, I read in the on-line newspapers that thunderstorms, hail and rain had...
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» The question is not how? But why?
At Łódź Film School the art of filmmaking is both present and past, documentary and fiction. At the 53rd edition of the Krakow Film Festival held in May this year, Poland’s legendary Łódź Film School...
View Article» The best comediesare filled with pain
NE ME QUITTE PASDirected by Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden,Netherlands, Belgium, 2013, 90 minutes This is by far the most entertaining yet touching documentary I have seen in the last few...
View Article» The Russian Pipe Films
The Russian documentary film tradition is acknowledged by documentary professionals all aver the world. Russian docs are often selected for festivals outside Russia. Russian filmmakers such as Victor...
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