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HELSINKI 2005: Hot Spot in the Cold North
The DocPoint festival in Helsinki continues in its fourth year as a non-competitive international festival focusing on new Finnish documentaries.
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SARAJEVO 2005: A Regional Focus
The Sarajevo Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary last August with a selection of feature films and documentaries. Ten years after the festival was established in the midst of a besieged Sarajevo and ten years after the Dayton Agreement was signed in December 1995, the festival has become a reference point and a committed promoter of…
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The world of ceremonies
A big rock covered with gold leaves, lying on the edge of the mountainside, glowing in the light of the sun. A blossoming cherry tree illuminated against the dark sky. A close-up of a piece of red, marbled, tuna fish. Three of the many magnificent images in "Mana – Beyond Belief". The film was shot…
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MORGAN SPURLOCK: Slim Budget, Fat Success
Morgan Spurlock, the director of "Super Size Me", was in Denmark for the premiere of his much talked-about comedy doc on the fast-food culture and industry in America. He claimed to be back to normal shape and weight after his rash experiment of eating McDo-food for a whole month. DOX met him.
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HOSUP LEE: Troublesome Shooting – Intriguing Result
Korean filmmaker Hosup Lee’s documentary "And Thereafter" caused heated moments in the Q&A session following the screening of the film at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival last October.
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PARIS 2004: Banned Films at Cinéma du Réel
The 26th edition of the Cinéma du Réel festival took off in an agitated atmosphere due to the cancellation of one of the screenings of the documentary "Route 181, Fragments d’un voyage en Palestine", by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi. The incident did not affect the rest of the festival, however, which lived up to…
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PUBLIC SERVICE TV: A Durable Survivor
Bjørn Erichsen, Director of Television at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and former television director for DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), finds public service TV in good shape and resilient to the commercial channels.
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Art in nature
"Rivers and Tides" (or how to understand the intangible) is a wonderful film about the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work.
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Visually extravagant
Danish director Anders Østergaard has always been fascinated by the relationship between an artist and his/her art. Like in his earlier film "The Makers", he this time delves into the life of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé who created Tintin.