Marshawn Lynch: A History
AMERICA: Through the eloquence of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of defiance, American football star Marshawn Lynch weaves his legacy. [Director David Shields]
Ibarska Highway, Flânerie 2.0
SHORTS: Neil Young on two notable documentary shorts from Belgrade's Alternative Film/Video [Director Aleksandrija Ajduković, Chloé Galibert-Laîné]
Now, At Last!
TIME: What can watching a sloth tell us about time and our own surroundings? [Director Ben Rivers]
Field Trip
INTERACTIVE: A former airfield, now one of the world’s largest urban parks, Tempelhof Field acts as one of the city’s most vibrant and juxtaposing locations. [Director Eva Stotz, Frédéric Dubois]
Unconditional Love / 19¦91
POLAND: In the face of growing intolerance, the ŻubrOFFka Short Film Festival takes a stand. [Director Rafał Łysak, Emilia Śniegoska]
Teslafy Me
BIOGRAPHY: Written out of textbooks, neglected by historians, Tesla's gifts are only now being recognised, Jana Glogovac's film argues. [Director Janja Glogovac]
The Forbidden Reel
CINEMA: Marked by violence and oppression, Afghanistan’s recent history, Ariel Nasr’s documentary shows the invaluable nature of cinema. [Director Ariel Nasr]
A lifetime in film
IDFA: What can we say about the 2019 IDFA choice of Jørgen Leth (82) and Patricio Guzmán (78) for «Lifetime Achievement Award» and «Guest of Honor» respectively?
Transformed through film
Ji.hlava: Inspiration Forum, a unique experience uncommon for most film festivals, brings scientists, politicians, artists, social reformers, and journalists together with documentary filmmakers and attending public to discuss complex problems of today’s world.
Ghandi’s method
PHILOSOPHY: Can traditions of brotherhood, friendship, and solidarity still be established amongst today's majorities?
Best Documentaries 2019
Thomas Heise: Heimat is a Space in Time
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Alexander Nanau: Collective
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Oscar Thoughts
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«We aim to showcase the diversity of documentary as much as we can»
FIPADOC: Executive Director Christine Camdessus offers insight into the Biarritz festivals' 2020 edition.
Careful explorations on human impermanence
PHOTOGRAPHY: A global range of 21st-century photobooks by female photographers.
On the dark side of the truth
TRUTH: A new book on documentary practices post-9/11 begins with an often-repeated (idealistic) blaming of the media for the election of Trump, but develops into a complex analysis of how digital culture shapes our political realities
Big little secrets
CONTROL: In his memoir, Edward Snowden reveals how he helped build the mass surveillance system and what his motivations were to bring it down
Learning about the world of multiple cinemas
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape.
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory
PALESTINE: A Palestinian filmmaker has created an important documentary about his people’s troubled past by finding old footage considered lost. [Director Mohanad Yaqubi]
This is Not a Movie
WAR REPORTER: For over 40 years, Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. [Director Yung Chang]
Nothing To Be Afraid Of
CONFLICT: 5 female de-miners look to clear the land of danger in the still disputed territory after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh [Director Silva Khnkanosian]
The Ebb Tide
ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India. [Director Renu Savant]
The Great Green Wall
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent. [Director Jared P Scott]
The Book of the Sea
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen. [Director Aleksei Vakhrushev]
The Sea of Shadows
ECOLOGY: The making of this film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and a rare species of mini whales. [Director Richard Ladkani]
Solidarity
CONTROL: The determination of a community that comes together in the name of justice. [Director Lucy Parker]
Dollar Heroes
NORTH KOREA: Why do UN sanctions fail to eradicate North Korea’s exploitative operations? [Director Carl Gierstorfer, Sebastian Weis]
Our Defeats
ACTIVISM: A humiliating police encounter instills a newfound attitude of dissent toward state control for a group of Parisian high school students. [Director Jean-Gabriel Périot]
The Panama Papers
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter's behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller. [Director Alex Winter]
