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The first and only Austrian Miss Universe 1929
Péter Forgács is well-known as an experimental filmmaker, as an artist who expertly re-arranges found footage in ways that meditate on memory and history
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A lyrical and critical portrait of life among a marginalised people
The title refers to a favourite Uyghur pastime, and, of course, is a good metaphor for their situation as a people.
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Suburban sprawl and the Moss family’s life in the suburbs
At first glance, Gary Burns and Jim Brown’s “Radiant City” might seem more like a mockumentary than a documentary
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FESTIVAL REPORT 2006: Discoveries in Locarno
The Swiss – and one Italian – documentaries impressed at the Locarno Film Festival, especially those that were screened in the less hyped programmes.
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Beyond darkness
The film takes us from the mouth to the source of the second largest river basin in the world, that of the Congo River (the largest is the Amazon)
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A country where the war still haunts the villages and jungle
A family is torn apart by the conflict in Nicaragua, leaving brother fighting brother and illustrating religious manipulation, male chauvinism and poverty as part of the destructive legacy of war.
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NEW DOCUMENTARIES: War Spaces
In The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo travels to Russia, Chechnya and Ingushetia, all fronts of the Chechen war.
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Where is the geographical centre of Europe?
The Centre uses a somewhat ridiculous proposition – the search for the point that is the exact centre of Europe – as an excuse to explore the diverse and often acrimonious cultural landscape of a rapidly changing continent.
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Searching for a black-haired girl
Siyamo is another excellent example of how fuzzy the distinction between fiction and documentary is for so many Iranian filmmakers.