MICHAEL APTED: A Documentary Soul
INTERVIEW: British filmmaker Michael Apted may have directed the latest James Bond film, but his soul belongs to documentary
Las Hurdes-Land Without Bread
The humorous, skillful and atheist provocateur Luis Bunuel had made “Un chien andalou” (together with Dali) and “L’age d’or”, maybe the two most famous surrealist films ever, when a friend promised that, if he’d ever win money in the lottery, he’d finance a film Bunuel wanted to make about a certain poor region in Spain: Las Hurdes
«The lost world» of survived Jews
Filmmaker Volker Koepp interviews two Holocaust survivors in the city of Chernowitz, a former center of Jewish culture
«Documentary within a documentary»
As his birthday approaches, an Israeli filmmaker juggles a complicated assignment for an important anniversary
Behind the curtains in a Norwegian home for the elderly
Filmmaker Margreth Olin examines the care of the elderly in a Norwegian home where spouses are often made to stay in separate rooms
FROM INSIDE: Balkan Stories
Historical conflicts are always a popular -and important- topic for documentaries, as is the case with the war in former Yugoslavia
ANIMATION DOCUMENTARY: From Disney to Documentary
Can an animated film be a documentary? What does animation have to offer documentary filmmakers?
LUSSAS: Filming Science
The “États généraux du cinéma documentaire” in Lussas, France, is an annual forum for lively debates about the nature and purpose of documentary
NICK FRASER: There is Typing and There is Writing
EDN director Tue Steen Müller and BBC “Storyville” editor Nick Fraser went on-line to have an e-mail chat about their common passion