On the extraordinary achievements of an ordinary man
LANGUAGE: Through one man's extensive travels and research over a 25-year span, a comparative study of 4 Indian languages is created.
Anatomy of a resistance struggle
LABOUR: A long period of de-industrialisation gives way to a decaying landscape through the decline of a mining community.
When values clash
FAMILY: The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story reflective of the political events leading to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
The death of democracy by a thousand cuts
JOURNALISM: A vivid portrait of tenacious Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, founder of the Duterte-critical Rappler.com.
Under the skin
RACISM: Systematic, legalized racism has defined Brazil as a country for centuries with recent legal changes doing little to change the picture
The killing joke
NORTH KOREA: After the mysterious murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, two women go on trial. But are they criminal assassins or political pawns?
A saviour complex
HOLOCAUST: Starting in Auschwitz and ending in Austria decades later, Love, It Was Not is the tragic story between prisoner and captor.
It comes right from the belly
DOK:REVUE: In this personal essay, a Danish sound designer Peter Albrechtsen remembers one of the world's greatest and most unique modern film composers, Jóhann Jóhannsson. This article was written in 2018, shortly after Jóhannsson´s death, but has never been published.
Everything we love is transient, fleeting, temporary
ESSAY: It is our self-understanding that is at stake today. With their aggressive, partly inflated subjects, Western technologists, economists, and artists have for centuries seen themselves above nature. In the ecosystem, man is in nature, he is a part of nature, on which he is completely dependent. Can we protect biotopes, habitats, rivers, lakes, soils, oceans and commons? This essay looks at five books examining the ecosystem.
DOK Leipzig 2020: «Naked Truths – Intimacy in Documentary Film»
DOK LEIPZIG: DOK Leipzig provided the informative panel discussion «Naked Truths - Intimacy in Documentary Film».
There’s more than one feminism
DOK.REVUE: A reflection on women documentarians inspired by Barbora Baronová’s book Women on Women.
Documentary for social change
SOCIAL CHANGE: Essential reading for all who want to better understand what makes our time the documentary golden age
Words matter
TRUMPISM: A guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the tumultuous Donald Trump presidency.
Is there something after the collapse?
SOCIETY: Thoughts on post-collapse societies and ecosocial transition.
Documentary as an ecological system
CINEMA: A glimpse into the ever-evolving way in which documentaries investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world.
Russia without Putin
RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day - but don't expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today's Russia.
Filmmaking and real life
FILMMAKING: Tony Stark's practical and accessible guide to creating non-fiction content for television, online or social media.
