Ex-police officer predict the massive Wall Street crash
The entirety of the Collapse narrative is director Chris Smith’s attempt to probe the possibility of industrial downfall flounders in his subject’s uncertain authority.
(LGBT) community against a police
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.
The transformation of destructive power into creative energy
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.
WORKSHOP: Why are you making films? Why this film? Why through film?
DOX’s Willemien Sanders reports from an 18-month workshop. This is the first of three reports from the Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab
POV: The War of the spirit
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.
“La dieciocho”, the so-called 18th Street gang
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.
The Moment of Recognition
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.
Havana City Boxing Academy: nineyear old boys- best boxers in the world
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?
Brother Number Two
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.