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Report: Sarajevo Film Festival 2024
SARAJEVO FF: Amongst its 200+ film programme, the festival marked its 30th year with a rather healthy lineup of documentaries and non-fiction activities, screenings, and talks.
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Makedox set to kick off sixth MakeDox Forum industry activities
The 2024 #MakeCoProDox Forum returns for its sixth edition from 19 to 21 August. This year’s forum, hosted at the Youth Cultural Center in Skopje, is set to deepen the region’s co-production efforts, foster strategic alliances among Balkan filmmakers, and explore new opportunities through international partnerships. Emerging from the growing need to support documentary film…
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Five projects announced for 2024 Docu Rough Cut Boutique
The Sarajevo Film Festival, in collaboration with the Balkan Documentary Center, has unveiled the 2024 Docu Rough Cut Boutique projects. A specialized regional platform aimed at supporting documentary projects in the advanced stages of editing, this initiative is designed to nurture creative possibilities and provide filmmakers with an extended, in-depth mentoring process through a three-module…
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IceDocs 2024: Between the mountains and the sea
ICEDOCS: IceDocs emphasised authentic filmmaker-audience connections, featuring diverse documentaries, seminars, and local cultural experiences.
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Cultural sanctuaries amidst relentless urban development
CHINA: Ben Mullinkosson’s The Last Year of Darkness captures the ephemeral connections forged in Chengdu's queer nightclub scene.
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«Dokufest emerged from this feeling of newfound freedom—the possibility of doing something despite the challenges.»
DOKUFEST: Modern Times Review spoke with DokuNights curators Nita Deda and Leart Rama on their road to the festival, Kosovo's love for electronic music, balancing local and international acts, and more.
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Kumjana Novakova and The Neurocultures Collective win joint best film award at IceDocs
The sixth #IceDocs – Iceland Documentary Film Festival concluded on 21 July, with Kumjana Novakova’s The Silence of Reason and The Neurocultures Collective’s The Stimming Pool sharing the Main Competition Award. The Silence of Reason, which uses forensic archives and testimonies to explore the trauma of women from the Foča rape camps, was praised for…
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DokuFest unveils urgent program on Palestine
DokuFest (2 – 10 August) announces a new program titled «No Other Land: Films on Palestine,» focusing on the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict amid the war in Gaza and rising Middle East tensions. Featured is Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, by Palestinian filmmaker Micha Kleifi and Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan. This 2002 documentary…
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«It’s nice to have an outlet to just laugh and enjoy»
ICEDOCS: With the sixth edition kicking off this week, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Director Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir on her background, Icelandic documentary aesthetics, the festival’s choice of location, and more.