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ROMANIA ON THE MOVE: Life after Death
Romania’s documentary filmmakers have formed an association and are lobbying intensely for more funding and national TV support for docs. And things are moving.
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THESSALONIKI DOC FEST 2007: Building a Documentary Culture
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival brings the world of international documentary to Greek filmmakers and audiences
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The Monastery – Mr. Vig & the Nun
The film’s title announces two central characters: Mr Vig, an old, quirky Dane who dreams of having his derelict castle turned into a Russian Orthodox monastery, and Sister Ambrosija, the tough but all-smiles representative of the Moscow Patriarchate who is called in to take over the estate from Vig.
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BRITDOC: Focus and Fun
The new British doc fest BRITDOC has chosen to focus on being an industry festival, and it got off to a good start
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THESSALONIKI DOC FESTIVAL 2006: Documentary as Cinema
Thessaloniki Doc Fest was a showcase for some great pieces of documentary cinema, equally pervaded by urgency and visual idioms.
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IDFA 2005: Film for Thought
The selection of films and the topics of the many talk shows and debates demonstrated that IDFA is-as always or even more so-deeply devoted to the documentary as a political art form.
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OXDOX 2005: Thinking “Identities in Transition”
The third OXDOX festival showed 100 films and focused on "Worlds in Transition".
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From being nobody to somebody
The Swenkas are a group of poor, black South Africans in Johannesburg performing a ritual known as ‘swanking’.
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Learn to love our bodies through thick and thin
Her body is imperfect. She has feet bumps that need extirpating, a stomach requiring particular expertise to be ‘held in’, teeth that need to be hidden behind carefully controlled smiles.
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Exploring dark family secret
'Eighty per cent of US documentaries today are in the me-and-my-grandmother category,' a friend told me the other day while referring to the noticeable ‘dictatorship of the personal’ in recent documentaries. Although I almost agreed with him (though sceptical about the accuracy of the percentage), I am willing to say that Lusztig’s film definitely transcends…
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A TROUBLED GAZE
It was midday in April 1999, and I was sitting next to Adriek in the viewing room of IDFA showing her a bunch of Romanian documentaries produced after 1989.