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ERIK GANDINI: Getting Back the Lost Reality
With three feature documentaries behind him, all dealing with some of the big conflicts of our time, Erik Gandini is a politically committed filmmaker and part of a new generation with a new approach to documentary style
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US UPDATE: Commitment
Festivals around the USA report that independent American filmmakers are presently making the documentary a genre worth talking about
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Three days mother and son spend together
26-year old Sasha has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Originally he was condemned to death
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BALTICUM FESTIVAL 1999: Singing Different Tunes
Two recurring questions - the legitimacy of staging in documentary, and considerations of the audience - were among the main discussion themes at a seminar held during the 10th Balticum Film & TV Festival on the Danish island of Bornholm this past June
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A portrait of the tabla player, percussionist and world musician Zakir Hussain
“A rhythm experience” is the subtitle Lutz Leonhardt uses for his 90-minute film Zakir and his Friends. A very precise term for this beautiful music film that takes you very far from the MTV experience.
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JESSICA YU: Don’t just eat your spinach
American filmmaker Jessica Yu won this year‘s Oscar for best documentary short for her film Breathing Lessons, on the physically handicapped poet and journalist Mark O'Brien. ULLA JACOBSEN met her at the Festivals of Festivals in Århus, Denmark.
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Atmosphere of erotic, enjoyable and easy living
«O Amor Natural» is a film about love: physical love. The Brazilian national poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade lived from 1902 to 1987. After his death a collection of erotic poems was found and published under thet title «O Amor Natural».