In his debut film Saluzzi – Composition for bandoneón and three brothers Argentine director Daniel Rosenfeld uses few words in his empathic portrayal of bandoneón phenomenon Dino Saluzzi, the history of tango and the numerous routes and roundabout ways of cultural currents from a South American perspective.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the story of why a film festival was transformed when things got too peaceful. A fairytale by TUE STEEN MÜLLER.
These are auspicious times for the form/style/movement known as Cinéma Vérité. Herzog denounces it in favour of “ecstatic truth”.