For the eleventh time, the Nyon festival once again proved its intention to stimulate the curious lover of ‘cinema du réel’ with a selection of thought-provoking, reflective, investigative, contemplative and experimental films and film essays dealing with reality, form and content with personal and creative pertinence.
Both feature docs by young Danish filmmaker Jeppe Rønde “Jerusalem My Love” and “The Swenkas”-have been enormously successful at festivals round the world.
There are many forgotten wars around the world and one of them is in Northern Uganda where the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) is fighting the government troops
“Before Flying Back to the Earth” is set in a Lithuanian hospital ward for children with leukaemia
On 1 November, the new director of EDN will move from Finland to Denmark. Her name is Leena Pasanen and she has been heavily involved with EDN for many years already.
We know what was happening in Portugal for decades under the dictatorial Salazar regime.
More than 2000 documentary professionals attended this year’s edition of Sunny Side of the Doc. For two of them, their role at the market changed radically.
Any filmmaker will tell you that getting your title right is half the battle. Canada’s annual international documentary festival is blessed with the coolest name in the business: Hot Docs.
How do you make a documentary that transcends the influx of daily news from a conflict area where your own security is at stake and the local inhabitants are reluctant to talk to westerners? In making a film about Baghdad, Swedish-Polish Ryszard Solarz decided to stay in Stockholm and direct a team of local reporters and photographers from a distance of 3500 kilometres, which turned out to be a very workable method.