From the cover of the video cassette: In November 1995, Allen Ross, a cameraman and filmmaker from Chicago, vanished without a trace. Five years later his friend and colleague Christian Bauer sets out to solve the mystery of his disappearance…
Fiona Murch, head of programs at BBC’s “Correspondent” was on the main Jury at the One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague this April.
“The Virgin Diaries” is a road movie reminiscent of Thelma and Louise (meant as a compliment!), except this is a true story, of course.
Emma Davie interviews Peter Mettler, the director of “Gambling, Gods and LSD” that won the Grand Prix and the Special Jury Prize at the Visions du Reel Festival in Nyon this past spring.
This powerful documentary explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer’s mission to defend worker’s rights.
In “August, a Moment Before the Eruption”, Avi Mograbi portrays the hot month of August as a metaphor for the omnipresence of violence, anger, fear and suspicion in Israel. Mograbi’s highly personal and provocative style includes humour as a device to depict the absurdity of violence. The film won a prize for Best Documentary at the ”It’s All True” festival in Brazil. TUE STEEN MÜLLER saw it there and was moved a second time.
For a decade the cultural channel ARTE has been broadcasting high quality documentaries to European audiences. Considered elitist by some and truly creative by others, ARTE programmes explore a wide range of subjects and promote the individual touch. At this year’s documentary film festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris, nine Arte co-productions were on the programme. Although not all were creatively impressive, they had something to offer from a sociological and ethnological perspective.
US-Jewish filmmaker BZ Goldberg, and co-directors Justine Shapiro and Carlos Bolado, view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a children’s perspective in Oscar-nominated “Promises”. This gives the film a sadly contemporary relevance in the light of the latest developments in Gaza where three 14-year-olds attacked a Jewish settlement in desperation, already feeling a responsibility to fight.
There are over 150 IKEA branches all over the world. And now Russia has one of its own. On 22 March 2000, Russia’s first IKEA opened its doors in the Moscow suburb of Khimki.