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Cinema du Réel 2000: From Paris with Love
From March 10 to 19, the newly re-opened Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted a wide variety of docs spanning from a series on 'love' to a competition programme that offered screen-time to the outcasts of the world. ULLA JACOBSEN reports.
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INTERVIEWS: The Young Ones
What’s on the mind of the young, up and coming European filmmakers and producers, whose documentaries we will be watching for many decades to come? ULLA JACOBSEN asked eight of them the same four questions and met open, international, optimistic attitudes.
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Somehow we don’t feel like leaving
The setting is an isolated, remote spot in Russia, the village of Shoina - sixty kilometres north of Archangel. During winter the village is totally inaccessible, and in the other seasons it is only less so.
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The Director’s Turn
Directors of documentaries are worried about staying up to date. Compared to their producer colleagues, they are offered very few opportunities for further professional training in the form of courses and workshops.
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Filming while he was still working as a bookseller
Street booksellers in the U.S. need no licence, because they are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says that everyone has the right to distribute literature. However, with his “Quality of Life” campaign to clean up the city, New York’s controversial mayor Giuliani has given the NY booksellers a hard time. That’s…
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INSISTING ON OFFBEAT FILMS
Visions du Réel deserves credit for continuing to put documentaries of a more experimental nature on the program. Yet besides its retrospectives at the latest festival in May, the more traditional works made the greatest impression. ULLA JACOBSEN reports.
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«The lost world» of survived Jews
Filmmaker Volker Koepp interviews two Holocaust survivors in the city of Chernowitz, a former center of Jewish culture
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The biggest massacre in Europe since WW2
Documentary about the fall of Srebrenica (Bosnian civil war, 1995). For a large part consisting of original video material shot by people involved themselves.
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Significance of religion and faith in present-day Brazil
The film focuses on the state of worship in Brazil, ranging from traditional Roman Catholicism and Born Again Christians, to black magic, witchcraft, Brazilian voodoo and other manifestations of faith which will surely shock viewers not very familiar with Brazil