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Looking for love and answers in the Amazon
Pregnant and facing the prospect of impending motherhood, director Claire Weiskopf decides to dive into the past. She wants to understand and heal the wounds caused by her relationship to her absent mother, Val.
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The van Goghs of China
Many China documentaries of the last decade have focused on the human cost of this nation becoming the world’s main manufacturer. Some portray the dramas behind long working hours and low wages on which people struggle to survive. Other films centre on China’s bizarre fascination for Western culture and their desire to emulate it.
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An Intimate Portrayal of an Iconic Photographer
Most people, when they hear the name Robert Mapplethorpe, think of controversy, New York’s bohemian life in the 1970s and gay BDMS photos that sparked public outrage.
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Alcoholic friends hanging out in the woods
This is by far the most entertaining yet touching documentary I have seen in the last few years.
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FOCUS ON RUSSIA
Russia was one of the main themes at the Movies That Matter Festival this spring. Entitled ‘Russian Spring’, the program dedicated to this complex country combined documentaries, debates and music and it was part of the Netherlands-Russia 2013 Year.
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The spirit of unity
The Spirit of ’45, Ken Loach’s new documentary, looks back at the period that followed the end of the WWII in the UK, when the Labor Party won the elections and implemented their social democratic program.
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WHY POVERTY?: The way the story is told
In whose interest is it to maintain poverty? DOX looks at three films meant to make us question and discuss poverty from the new Why Poverty? series
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A confident woman
Challenging deeply rooted patriarchal customs. Rafea: Solar Mamas directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim won the Oxfam Novib Award at IDFA last November.
