A collage about the reality of five different smoking rooms
“The Smoking Room” is filmed solely in various smoking rooms: a train’s smoking compartment and smoking rooms at a hospital and a factory
A deeply personal film
A German film director travels to Anatolia to meet his Turkish father and gets to know his wife and two half sisters in the process.
IDFA 2006: A Toast to the Documentary
Overall, IDFA 2006 was business as usual with an extensive film programme, countless seminars, workshops and masterclasses, and FORUM and Docs for Sale as the major business events
FRANÇOIS VERSTER: How to Assemble Your Emmy Award
In September 2006, South African filmmaker François Verster’s documentary “A Lion’s Trail” won an Emmy for “the most outstanding cultural and artistic programming”.
NORMA PERCY: The Decisive Moment
Norma Percy is the woman behind Brook Lapping’s highly acclaimed documentary series about recent political history, including “The Death of Yugoslavia” and “Israel & the Arabs: Elusive Peace”
ARAB-EUROPEAN COOPERATION: Three Minutes of Palestinian Reality
Four Palestinian filmmakers living in Ramallah, all professional filmmakers with filming and producing experience in their native country, were given the opportunity to make a short documentary for Channel 4’s strand “3-minute wonder”
SHORT DOCS AT IDFA 2007: Celebrating Diversity
To define a “short film” is complicated. There is the industry’s definition that anything under 50 minutes is a short. Or the rules of many festivals where shorts are less than 40 minutes. There’s the TV half-hour, which runs approximately 26 minutes, and the typical student film, often 10 to 20 minutes.
DOKLEIPZIG 2006: Digital Market and Peace Doves
DokLeipzig continues to develop its industry events, this year introducing a digital doc market. At the same time the festival also boasts a selection of high-class films.