DOCS AT TIFF 2007: Mini-festival within a Festival
Toronto International Film Festival remains strongly devoted to documentaries and even included two docs in its Gala section this past September.
Selling Silence
An almost 3-hour-long documentary about a monastery with no narration, where even the monks are silent: at first glance, these key features of Philip Gröning’s film “Into Great Silence” don’t sound quite like every distributor’s dream.
Is a quiet, powerful story of two young women
Watching Belfast Girls, I felt like a Kalahari tribesman watching National Geographic «Hey, these guys have come to my country and they’re putting it on screen like it was something odd or exotic!».
Suburban sprawl and the Moss family’s life in the suburbs
At first glance, Gary Burns and Jim Brown’s “Radiant City” might seem more like a mockumentary than a documentary
ANAND PATWARDHAN: The “Eye” instead of “I”
Anand Patwardhan (born 18 February 1950) is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights oriented films
BRITDOC: Focus and Fun
The new British doc fest BRITDOC has chosen to focus on being an industry festival, and it got off to a good start
Film about Iraq under U.S. occupation
We are all well aware of the dangers involved in making a documentary in Iraq these days
A hunt that occasionally takes on thriller-like proportions
The title refers to the individuals who have been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) but who are still at large
Film about the power and vitality of art
What a joyful visit to a cemetery! From the very beginning of this film, I felt at home in the universe that Heddy Honigmann creates among the dead and the living