«Documentaries fill people’s need for featured reality»
DOK.fest München: MTR talks with the programmers at the DOK.fest München’s International Programme, Julia Teichmann and Monika Haas.
Afghan air guitar and expat metal: a scene is created in RocKabul
CULTURE: A documentary tells the story of the rise of the first Afghan metal band and their fall under the weight of the ultra-conservative society that surrounds them.
Culture in crisis in Rio de Janeiro
ACTIVISM: The Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro is a prism onto a country in economic and political crisis.
Where there is love, there is life
HOLOCAUST: Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto is not a historical account, not a teaching of facts. It is a beautiful, joyous and painful bubble of the memories of one man who lived during the Holocaust.
Making money by punishing innocent «criminals»
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
It’s others that interest me
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: At 90, French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda reflects on her career and a creative philosophy of community and empathy.
The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
The conspiracy between the lawful and the unlawful
IMMIGRATION: Mexican government complicity to the lethal violence of organised crime and America’s brutal bureaucracy towards asylum seekers are both condemned in Marcela Arteaga’s poetic and piercing The Guardian of Memory.
A timely tale of the age-old practice of arranged marriages
TRADITION: The moving story of a Turkish child bride trafficked to Europe –Red Moon is as much family therapy as a heart-rending road movie.
Getting closer to the heart of the truth
HOT DOCS: Documentary filmmakers are the last people standing, waving the flag for the truth and facts.» – Shane Smith, Programme Director at Hot Docs.
Kinshasa’s «theatre without end»
COLONIALISM: Four filmmakers search for a new way to tell the story of Kinshasa, looking to the city’s performance artists and their subversion of colonialism’s legacy.