BERLIN 2011: What matters in Berlin
Cinema for Peace addressed the unbearable heaviness of being. Also over the course of the Berlinale festival, the ambivalence towards social issues was explicit, as DOX’s Truls Lie experienced himself.
PUENTO DE VISTA 2011: Asesinato del padre
In prioritising the alternative and innovative, the film festival Punta de Vista in Pamplona runs the risk of turning the virtues of alternative thinking into an orthodoxy. Judging by the repertoire of its 7th edition, the flaws of counter-conventionality turned rigid are by far outnumbered by its benefits.
Dimitri Eipides: When ethics is a must
FAREWELL: The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and its people bid farewell to Dimitri Eipides. We republish our interview in honour of his life works – from when he received the 2011 EDN award 2011. In this interview, Truls Lie speaks with Eipides about movies that matter, action, sabotage and ethics.
THESSALONIKI 2011: Bodily experience
The sensual, muscular level of a documentary is often overshadowed by theme, style and ethical issues. At Doc Fest 13 in Thessaloniki Steffen Moestrup tried to focus on the bodily aspects of the screened documentaries.
Some things only come out at night
Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to the dark side of a Europe filled with lives at night: loneliness, sadness, death, refugees, drunken and somewhat foolish people, sex for money, illness and surveillance.
Behind the veil of a culture
Who has to cover up for God and uncover for men when the club curtains are drawn in this film about belly dancing?
The adrenalin rush
World had hacked their way into the voicemail systems of both celebrities and private persons such as the missing teenager Milly Dowler who was later found murdered.
Unfinished logic
Where does one film begin and the other one end? A Film Unfinished is about, and “is” propaganda.