Staroverci
Jana Sevciková’s film Old Believers starts and ends with a shot taken from a boat moving steadily down the Danube. It’s tough to know how to read the gesture.
A cheerful nostalgia
”How nostalgic!” exclaims a woman over the opening shot of a rising sun and the melancholy sound of an accordion in “Rice Girls”. These words sum up her memories of days gone by and describe at the same time the dominant mood of Matteo Bellizzi’s documentary about rice workers in Northern Italy.
Why did Hitler kill himself?
Kevin McMahon is still well-remembered in Canada for his film The Falls (1991), a goofy examination of Niagara Falls that departed from the sometimes overly-earnest conventions of Canadian documentary.
Journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism
The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. It also explores the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.
HERZ FRANK: 76 Years Older
Grand documentary filmmaker Herz Frank has been working for three years on his latest film “Flashback”. The result is not only a new film but also an autobiography – an intimate record of an entire lifetime and many films. By TUE STEEN MÜLLER.
South Africa, SABC1: Outperforming Ally McBeal
The allegation by TV executives that no one cares to watch documentaries is invalid and unnecessary.
Learn to love our bodies through thick and thin
Her body is imperfect. She has feet bumps that need extirpating, a stomach requiring particular expertise to be ‘held in’, teeth that need to be hidden behind carefully controlled smiles.
The experience involves unimaginable pain
The circumcision of women may be the ultimate act of subjugation, a brutal operation to control women physically, so they will go directly from obeying their parents to obeying their husband, without being carried away by sexual lust.
Chronicling the Cycle of Abuse
Quite anonymous in itself, the title is well-chosen for this exceptional film. The film is about Stevie and lays his whole life bare for the viewer. It is not an enviable life either: as the film leaves Stevie, he has just started to serve a ten-year sentence for child molesting.