PETER GREENAWAY: How many nuclear bombs will Earth endure?
VISIONS DU REEL 2016: We live in a world in which large numbers of nuclear weapons are ready to launch. But what does a film artist such as Peter Greenaway have to say about this?
21 days’ of detailed discomfort
It is incredibly gripping to get intimate with Mahmoud’s family during their escape from Syria to Switzerland. Even the lethal rubber dingy journey across icy cold waters is documented – using a small mobile phone camera.
Flower guerrilla and slow eco-lives
A new eco-documentary provides an artistic look at how we can all enjoy a wild and organic life.
The Day the Sun Fell on Hiroshima
The Day the Sun Fell describes the consequences of the nuclear bomb in Japan, as told through the film maker’s own family history. A national trauma which remains connected with stigmatising and lack of knowledge in the Land of the Rising Sun.
The documentary maker who learnt his lesson
A revealing documentary about Kadyrov’s Chechnya, or a propaganda film in favour of Putin’s Russia? The latter, says our reviewer.
THE CAMERA LENS AS A POLITICAL TOOL
Italian political cinema will be discussed at Cinemateket in Oslo this weekend
Looking humanity in the eye
With its excessive simplicity, the cinema documentary and multimedia project Human is able to bring us a little closer together.
CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2016: An eye for what we cannot see
Exile and poverty hung as a shadow over the Cinéma du Réel short film festival
Strong and timely testimonials
By detailing the unknown people’s trial against Iran, this documentary provides an important and upsetting insight into the incumbent regime’s systematic human rights violations.
The director as Fairy Godmother
Is the credibility of a documentary film in danger when the director changes the life story being portrayed in order to get the saleable result he or she wants?
In the waiting room of martyrdom
EURODOK: Two young men are waiting to be called to action as suicide bombers in Syria. Pål Refsdal’s recent documentary depicts a surprisingly intimate portrait.
The Specific Intellectual
Is the role of intellectuals sometimes taken over by reflected filmmakers – and those old universal critics gone?