The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Melbourne 2011: The human condition
When faced with the choice of starvation or survival, the family chooses to trade their
younger daughter
A massive «cover-up»
A young filmmaker asks why osama Bin Laden was never on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. He also questions how close the ties between The White House and the 9/11 Commission actually were.
The mysterious Al Qaeda
According to British documentarist Adam Curtis, in 2001 the US had a desperate need to create a new external enemy which could unite America behind their policies. He also shows how Al Qaeda was invented in a courtroom in Manhattan in January 2001.
9/11
It is now 10 years since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Such an occasion brings to mind numerous documentary films that have depicted the events from every angle you could possibly imagine.
HOTDOCS 2011: Dreaming your way through reality
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival offered a lexicon of subjects and visual styles; a move from the illusion of cinema towards authenticity.
DAMASKUS 2011: DOX BOX continues to inspire
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.
BELDOCS 2011: Between past and present
Three national Balkan films distinguished themselves at the Beldocs 2011 Festival in its fourth edition in Serbia.