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  • DEFIANCE IS PRESENT

    Özge Calafato looks at some of the most compelling recent documentary works from the Arab World.

  • BEING PART OF THE CIRCLE

    Veteran filmmaker Joan Churchill was the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking Award at Camerimage, Poland’s prestigious International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

  • Interview: Alan Berliner

    Alan Berliner is a master of creative documentary and experimental film. Özge Calafato met him in the midst of the Turkish uprising, which shocked him and made him challenge his role as a filmmaker.

  • A RISING STAR

    Turkish documentary flourishes in an increasingly polarized political climate.

  • A magical tour de force

    With shy, pensive, and at times monosyllabic characters, director Tinatin Gurchiani paints a compassionate and somewhat melancholic portrait of Georgia’s eclectic new generation.

  • DOK LEIPZIG 2012: The intricacies of the human condition

    Documentary film festivals like DOK Leipzig have increasingly embraced creative documentaries that push the envelope, which feel like “movies” and could easily “pass for fiction films”. Strong political content with a distinct artistic vision and creative storytelling

  • Animadocs 2013

    DOK Leipzig: Today more creative techniques like comics, drawings, puppet animation, photographs, graphic novels and paintings, indicate the growing recognition of animation as an art form.

  • MODEL PRIZREN: Dokufest, 11 years strong

    The horror of war motivated Docufest’s Veton Nurkollari to do whatever he could to never witness war again. His festival is one bright spot that has almost single-handedly succeeded in dispelling some of the pessimism that shadows the country.

  • Hot on the web

    What innovations are being made in storytelling and doc filmmaking through the advent of new technologies?

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