Karoline Frogner: Genocide
Director Karoline Frogner tells DOX that she wanted to show how the women in Duhozanye rebuild their lives by taking care of the orphans.
Very sad stories
With Duhozanye – The Widows of Rwanda Katrine Frogner has created a brutal and very hard-towatch film. Additional scenes depicting everyday life in Rwanda today would have created a better, more balanced film.
New connections, new methods, new thoughts
Book critique: Thomas Waugh’s book essays show a firm believer in activist media and a strong film scholar who never lets go of his curiosity and the importance of linking scholarly definitions to useable critiques.
Female Arab voices
A myriad of Arab women documentary filmmakers have started their own revolutions through the issues that they choose to cover, the questions they ask and the connections they establish.
Like a Kafka novel
The legal system in the Philippines is put to the test after a member of a powerful family is accused of murder and a man who has been wrongfully imprisoned.
A documentary about passion, love and ambition
Slavik (34), former world champion in Latin American dancing is making a last and final comeback
Kosovo: Shaped by war
As the most successful film event in Kosovo, DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival is helping to cultivate the documentary tradition in the Kosovar region.
Nordic panorama: In a cubicle
Two films dealing with political topics in a very non-political way drew the attention of critic and jury member
Counterfeit adultery greed
A thoroughly entertaining and profoundly human portrait of a teeming and complex society through the quiet and heroic efforts of one man to make the world he inhabits a better place.
Double observation
Not much is going on in Maite Alberdi’s The Lifeguard – but in that nothingness, we get to see something.
Tip of the iceberg
Peak shows what climate change actually means to people. A majestic scope of images, but does the film’s slow attitude become an obstacle to its themes?
A unique monthly opportunity
“The Moon Inside You” is a personal journey into the mysteries and many prejudices surrounding menstruation. But director Diana Fabiánová’s attempt to tell the whole story causes a lack of focus in the film and makes it feel fumbling.