OXDOX 2005: Thinking “Identities in Transition”
The third OXDOX festival showed 100 films and focused on “Worlds in Transition”.
The third OXDOX festival showed 100 films and focused on “Worlds in Transition”.
Susana de Sousa Dias uses only twelve minutes of archive footage in her 72-minute archive-based film “Still Life”
Susana de Sousa Dias uses only twelve minutes of archive footage in her 72-minute archive-based film “Still Life”
Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi’s documentary “Sisters in Law” is a fascinating insight into the workings of the judicial system in the small African town of Kumba in southwest Cameroon.
Interest in Chinese documentaries is on the rise. Both this year’s Leipzig Doc Festival and cph:dox featured Chinese retrospectives and they had plenty of independently produced Chinese docs to pick from.
History programming is riddled with problems. One of the most blatant is that yesterday’s present is irretrievably lost. And using a camera to document something that no longer exists is impossible. Or is it?
Arunas Matelis, one of Lithuania’s most original documentary directors, takes a personal, playful approach to filmmaking.
Films on the theme of democracy are in fashion at the moment, with the ‘Steps for Democracy’ project on its global road show.