Stonewall Uprising illustrates another great step forward in the story of human rights. The gay community organized en masse in 1968, and fought back with a vengeance. This was at the height of many national civil rights movements in the United States.
In To Fight For we see the European approach based on dialogue and consensus versus The Streets Stop Here where the American approach employs threat and confrontation. Absent parents is the common denominator.
DOX’s Willemien Sanders reports from an 18-month workshop. This is the first of three reports from the Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an ardent critic of his age. A recently reconstructed documentary film by him gives us an insight into many of his critiques – on war, the media, beauty, work and religion. As an object of hate and scorn in his time, he still has the power to move us.
The director’s tragic destiny in the aftermath of the making and release of The Crazy Life adds to the documentary’s already dubiously macabre tensions.
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival held a 9-film retrospective on the works of Nicolas Philibert. DOX spoke to him there about the musicality of editing, ethics, and the constant self-examinations of an artist.
Is the film Sons of Cuba a portrait of sacrifice, social hardship and political indoctrination? Or is it about a country full of love and passion and the rewards of dedication to the cause, be that sport or communism?
Director Sambath conducts a one-man truth and reconciliation process. His film Enemies of the People is not only winning awards on the festival circuits, but is also having wider ripples in the Cambodian community.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (Reunion, 1958) is a controversial author – loved and loathed. He is compared to Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire for his provocations.
What did Benazir Bhutto really achieve as Prime Minister of Pakistan? She brought drinking water and electricity to the villages, she built schools and ended polio. But this film – a bombardment of expressions – is more a history of Pakistan.
Three documentaries show that history can be understood in terms of time periods of different duration: A single event such as an airship trip in 1929, a long running campaign to distort Palestinian history, or the memories of a father connected to world events.
Wieland Speck is sculpting a dauntless collection of progressive worldviews, of both fact and fiction, which unites artistic vision with commercial interest.