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.
Three national Balkan films distinguished themselves at the Beldocs 2011 Festival in its fourth edition in Serbia.
At the festival the selections were all over the map ideologically, stylistically, and otherwise: some works were preoccupied with parsing unsolvable episodes of the past, some paid homage to a lost Fatherland, some recreated new contexts for historical conflicts.
Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar talks with DoX about the revolution, the future of activist cinema and social media as messenger. As he says, you find yourself choosing between being a filmmaker and fighting for your cause.
How do you evaluate one film against another? And why do women often fade into the background in documentaries?
Hollywood director Barry levinson claims the advent of television is a democratic disaster. he shows us some hollywood actors’ public support of political parties within the frames of a brief history of televised politics.
This ethnographic-style documentary vividly observes the lifestruggle of a group of adolescents surviving on the busy streets of kathmandu. its characters are scruffy, underfed, boisterous, angry and ultimately tragic.
U.S. military creates Mock Iraqi villages as urban operations training environments – in the Mojave Desert. They plan to give war a ‘humanist touch’, to prompt a change of opinion towards Americans in the minds of islamic countries. But philosophical and moral dilemmas arise surrounding the idea of academics training professional killers on how to be kinder.
German heidemarie Schermer literally gave away all her possessions to live without money. Does the director explore all the critical issues?
It dishes up the facts but it doesn’t reflect on them, writes Willemien Sanders.
The Game of Death is a cocktail of effects, a compilation of increasingly extreme television entertainment. A battle between personal ethics and loyalty to authorities?
