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ROTTERDAM 2011: Five ways to look at the world
The International Film Festival Rotterdam traditionally showcases extraordinary films, performances and installations.
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Unfinished logic
Where does one film begin and the other one end? A Film Unfinished is about, and "is" propaganda.
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DAMASKUS 2011: DOX BOX continues to inspire
We visited the documentary festival DoX BoX just before the uprisings in Syria. Both young filmmakers on the road to realizing their projects and films in the Syrian competition show development, encouraged by the festival.
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Something is missing
It dishes up the facts but it doesn’t reflect on them, writes Willemien Sanders.
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The enemy within
We regard others with hostility, because we do not know or understand their goals, motives or means. Three films elaborates on people stepping out of their comfort zone, as WilleMien SAnDerS sees it. But when it comes to facing the enemy, just facing it is not enough.
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They just want law and order
Two new documentaries: – on former parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the antiIslam Party for Freedom’s Geert Wilders.
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Middle-East: (Re)Framing Palestinians
Two films express hope for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Budrus, the Palestinians also get support from sympathetic Israelis protesting against the Israeli military forces.
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The transformation of destructive power into creative energy
In To Fight For we see the European approach based on dialogue and consensus versus The Streets Stop Here where the American approach employs threat and confrontation. Absent parents is the common denominator.
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WORKSHOP: Why are you making films? Why this film? Why through film?
DOX’s Willemien Sanders reports from an 18-month workshop. This is the first of three reports from the Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab