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CANNES 2010: How did it happen?
How can cinema reflect and explain the complexities of the 2008 economic crisis, asks Emma Baus. Three films presented at Cannes this year may answer the question in totally different ways. A fiction blockbuster like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; a talking head documentary like Inside Job, and a mock trial featuring real witnesses, lawyers…
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CANNES 2009: No Body to Film
Three films in Cannes have remembrance in common: One about a dead wife, one about a dead husband and one about numerous deaths in the southern Alps – the last one being a comedy.
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A film about American health care industry
Even if Michael Moore’s new film didn’t win a prize at Cannes this year (it was not shown in competition), the screening caused quite a stir
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Fiction film based on the writings of a man who killed his entire family
The new film by Nicolas Philibert is completely different in form from everything he has done before
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Absurd film which provoked lots of laughter
By looking at his country Bulgaria through a little town, Andrey Paounov manages to give us a general look at the downfall of a Soviet era that has disappeared nowadays
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CINEMA DU REEL 2007: Far from Hollywood
The social profile is strong at Cinéma du réel, which for the 29th time offered cinematically strong pieces of reality from around the world
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CANNES FILM FEST 2006: Few Docs on the Croisette
Although the Cannes Film Festival is really a fiction film festival, DOX went to find out which documentaries had managed to sneak into this prestigious festival after all.
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LAURENT BÉCUE-RENARD: New Version for the General Public
After a big festival success with his film "Vivre après", paroles de femmes from 2000, Laurent Bécue-Renard decided to make a completely new version of the film "De guerre lasses" and release it in cinemas for a broader audience. It is now finished and will be premiering in cinemas on October 29. Interview by EMMA…
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SEPIDEH FARSI: Taking Risks for Artistic Freedom
Selected for the Cinéma du Réel, FIPA, and the Festival Dei Popoli, Homi D Sethna Filmmaker is one of those delicate, self-made films which only reach the public at documentary film festivals. A portrait of an old man, an Indian filmmaker and above all a fervent humanist, the documentary displays an extremely moving intimacy.