VISIONS DU RÉEL 2006: Of Flesh and Blood
The films at the 2006 Visions du réel festival inspired reflections on how to represent suffering in documentaries.
FERNANDO SOLANAS: Beyond the Commercial Censorship
Fernando Solanas is a filmmaker who has also served as a member of Argentina’s national parliament.
Beyond darkness
The film takes us from the mouth to the source of the second largest river basin in the world, that of the Congo River (the largest is the Amazon)
DOC-COOPERATION IN THE MIDDLE-EAST: EU-Supported Project Suspended
A new training project, Greenhouse, which aims to bring documentary filmmakers in the Middle East together to form a common regional film community has so far done the opposite: widened the gaps and sparked a conflict rather than dialogue
A real-life tale with no happy ending
A dramatic story about an amazing musical talent, a 12-year-old gypsy girl from Slovakia, whose life is suddenly turned upside down
Camera breaks down the barriers between two worlds
Kha-Chee-Pae” explores the emotional impact on children growing up in an orphanage. To depict such a difficult and sensitive issue, Miroslav Janek makes use of many different filmic elements combined in a cinematic poem
Part drama, part documentary
In September 2001, a group of friends left Tipton, the UK, to travel to Pakistan and attend a wedding.
SUNDANCE 2006: War and Coffee on the Global Agenda
This past January, the Sundance Film Festival brought a powerful slate of documentaries to Park City, Utah, many of which explored social and political issues.
EUGENE JARECKI: Increasing the World’s Supply of Non-fiction
Eugene Jarecki has directed two documentary films, “The Trials of Henry Kissinger” (2002, co-directed with Alex Gibney) and “Why We Fight” (which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005).