Two docs about South American life and politics show both the squalor of economic repression and the fight to change history – some use leftist tactics, others use art and garbage. Both films listen to the marginalized victims of privatization, pollution and poverty.
Two new documentaries: – on former parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the antiIslam Party for Freedom’s Geert Wilders.
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.
The web has had roughly a couple of decades to realize its potential as the channel for radical, subversive thinking or action. This film illustrates the web’s potential as a forum for the much bemoaned voices that seldom gain admittance to the public domain. But the prime feat of RIP in Pieces is the compilation skills of the sampling director-artist.
The united Nations Association Film Festival is not for the faint of heart. Several films focus on migration and climate changes. Many people in the Pacific will become climate refugees, and what will become of all the child migrants who leave their families?
At Guth Gafa, Kim Longinotto gave a master class. Her new film is Pink Saris. DoX met her for an interview.
Negotiating the terrain between politics and art, dance documentaries are unique works. MELANIE SEVCENKO examines four exciting – and individual – successes.
In Venice essay films show a resistance to the mainstream film industry. Remarkably, death is present in of a lot of the films, whether fiction, faction or documentary.
DoX talks with Sergey Dvortsevoy about being a filmmaker, his moral limits, and why he went from documentaries to fiction.
At the festival four animation programs contained Animadok, Neue Deutsche Animation, the Anima Für Kinder program and Pink Elephants. If real life can be intensely surreal, there is no better cinematic tool to explore surrealism than animation.
346 films from 58 countries, 145 visiting directors – this year’s 53rd Leipzig documentary film festival could hardly be described as greater than the sum of its parts. Within one short week, who could possibly tell? But some of the peculiar events could easily branch off and become festivals on their own.
