Arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers
Documentary recounting the story of how a group of women in post-World War I Nagyrev, Hungary poisoned several dozen people and explores why they did that.
DOK LEIPZIG 2005: Showing Good Films Is Not Enough
Traditionally, the Leipzig festival was the main doc festival for Eastern Europe, so when the Wall fell in 1989, the festival endured some difficult years.
JAN VRIJMAN FUND: Making the World Less Unilateral
The Jan Vrijman Fund received the 2006 EDN Award for the fund’s diligent efforts to support films and filmmakers from developing countries.
Two films about modern industrialized fishery and agriculture
Curiously, two feature docs have been released in Austria at the same time dealing with the same theme: modern industrialized fishery and agriculture – and both films were supported by the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund.
Tazmamart prison in the south of Morocco
Dark, unlit prison cells, bad bug-infested food, no medicine, no contact with the family, freezing cold in winter, unbearably hot in summer, routine beatings and torture were the unimaginable conditions endured by 58 prisoners during 18 years in the Tazmamart prison in the south of Morocco.
NON-MAINSTREAM FILMS: When Words Fail
Documentaries concerned with seeking new ways of expressions, sometimes created in a cooperative effort involving various art forms, are mostly living in obscurity.
JENNIFER FOX: Pass the Camera, Please
US filmmaker and producer Jennifer Fox is currently editing her new film “Flying”, which takes a universal look at the position of women in the 21st century, herself included
IDFA 2005: Film for Thought
The selection of films and the topics of the many talk shows and debates demonstrated that IDFA is-as always or even more so-deeply devoted to the documentary as a political art form.
TURKISH WOMEN’S OUTLOOK: From the Bridge between East and West
Although there is practically no market for documentary films in Turkey, a vivid, independent film scene has developed over the past few years, reflecting the lebensgefühl and the social and political awareness of filmmakers who grew up in the dual culture of a country struggling to define its pivotal place as a bridge between East and West.