Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
PHOTOGRAPHY: The controversial cult status of Helmut Newton, one of the great masters of photography, continues long after his 2004 death. [Director Gero Von Boehm]
Merry Christmas, Yiwu
GLOBALISATION: In a city where it is Christmas all year long, those that produce cheap and tacky seasonal decorations care little for Western traditions. [Director Mladen Kovačević]
Il Mio Corpo
IDENTITY: Thrown into a world to suffer similar refusals unite two young men, one Sicilian, the other Nigerian. [Director Michele Pennetta]
Holy Father
IDENTITY: Coming to terms with parenthood coincides with the quest for reconciliation with family. [Director Andrei Dăscălescu]
Hold Me Right
TRAUMA: The aftermath of sexual assault, its causes and effects, through intimate testimonies of survivors. [Director Danijela Stajnfeld]
The Delta of Bucharest
COMMUNISM: The extensive history of Bucharest's Văcăreşti Nature Park has endured many iterations, from monastery to prison to the world's largest urban Delta. [Director Eva Pervolovici]
Her Mothers
CONTROL: In increasingly authoritarian Hungary, two women face several hardships in their adoption of a young Roma child. [Director Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics]
Where are we going now?
VIEWS: Is globalisation an evil that should now be fought? No, it's more nuanced. We who have an international orientation look with fear at how international cooperation is now weakening with the pandemic.
Cannes Docs – Marché du Film & CPH:DOX on «Documentary Production now – and beyond!»
CANNES DOCS: Cannes Docs - Marché du Film & CPH:DOX provide the informative panel discussion «Documentary Production now - and beyond!»
What’s happening to our planet?
ECOLOGY: How a massively popular nature TV series can help the world
We are movie cameras, lucidly dreaming
BOOKS: Filmmaker and curator Pamela Cohn knows all about the medium’s gallant struggle for a cinematic language that is new, immediate, and accessible to the viewer.
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.
The magic of documentary filmmaking
CINEMA: Some of the most talented documentary directors from around the world offer perspective on their approach to filmmaking.
