HUMAN RIGHTS DOC CONFERENCE 2000: Only Time Can Change the World
Around 40 film professionals from 13 countries met in Lesidren, Bulgaria this past October for the first edition of the conference ”Documentary Films: Ethnic Issues and Human Rights”.
LEIPZIG 2000: The cultural traditions of east European cinematography
Leo Isiemine reports from the 43rd International Leipzig festival of documentary and animated films, the traditional East Bloc film festival that after stagnation in the 80s is flourishing once again.
INTERVIEWS: The Young Ones
What’s on the mind of the young, up and coming European filmmakers and producers, whose documentaries we will be watching for many decades to come? ULLA JACOBSEN asked eight of them the same four questions and met open, international, optimistic attitudes.
Somehow we don’t feel like leaving
The setting is an isolated, remote spot in Russia, the village of Shoina – sixty kilometres north of Archangel. During winter the village is totally inaccessible, and in the other seasons it is only less so.
Missionary zeal and colonialism
Ghini has a problem. If he is going to embrace Christianity and be baptised before the arrival of the Messiah in 2000, he has to give up one of his wives.
DUBROVNIK 2000: Looking for Trouble
This is the story of why a film festival was transformed when things got too peaceful. A fairytale by TUE STEEN MÜLLER.
POV: Including Vérité in Your Toolkit
These are auspicious times for the form/style/movement known as Cinéma Vérité. Herzog denounces it in favour of “ecstatic truth”.
The Director’s Turn
Directors of documentaries are worried about staying up to date. Compared to their producer colleagues, they are offered very few opportunities for further professional training in the form of courses and workshops.
Longing for the Future
Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.