Founders of Malombo jazz
A film about Malombo jazz, as played and practised by one particular group, the Three Malombo Men.
DOCUMENTARY TRUTHFULNESS: Witchhunt
In Britain, the media’s focus on fakery in documentaries has reached explosive heights. Consequently, the broadcasting regulatory body has started to follow rigid rather than sensible measures to protect viewers from untruthfulness, which can challenge freedom of expression.
Tracking missing socks in the European Union
The search for the answer to the mysterious disappearance of socks follows the political elite from Finland to Brussels
Pripyat – abandoned since the 1986
After 1986, a restricted zone was erected at a radius of 30km around Chernobyl. More than 100.000 people have been evacuated from there, but some have remained or returned
Community trying to save their own little patch of «the wild»
OUR PARK was meant to be a nice quiet film about the filmmaker’s local park, an essay on the notion of the wild and the tame in the inner city suburb of Leichhardt
Music of Cuba
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder
CINÉMA DU RÉEL 1999: The Terrain of the Real
In its 21st edition, held March 5 – 14 in Paris, Cinéma du Réel featured a significant number of works by young filmmakers
VISIONS DU RÉEL 1999: Celebrating the Lyrical Docs
This year the international documentary festival in Nyon celebrated multiple anniversaries with a wide-ranging programme, large audiences, and a focus on poetic docs.
ERIK GANDINI: Getting Back the Lost Reality
With three feature documentaries behind him, all dealing with some of the big conflicts of our time, Erik Gandini is a politically committed filmmaker and part of a new generation with a new approach to documentary style