DOCU-SOCCER
TUE STEEN MÜLLER convinced the editor-in-chief that football and documentaries have a lot in common!
DOCUMENTARY IRANIAN STYLE
Women and the variety of ethnic communities are two of the most frequent themes dealt with in Iranian documentaries where the tradition for poetry overshadows journalism.
INSISTING ON OFFBEAT FILMS
Visions du Réel deserves credit for continuing to put documentaries of a more experimental nature on the program. Yet besides its retrospectives at the latest festival in May, the more traditional works made the greatest impression. ULLA JACOBSEN reports.
People who take soccer very, very seriously
It documents the realities of the game as perceived by soccer aficionados in Austria but also in the countries against which Austria played: Cameroon, Chile and Italy.
LUIS BUñUEL-100 YEARS: Zero in Conduct
A homage to Luis Buñuel on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth by Tue Steen Müller.
DOX IN BERLIN 2000: Beyond the Red Carpet
Being a feature film festival, documentaries are not the main focus in Berlin, but for the dedicated doc fan the schedule was nevertheless overflowing thanks to the Panorama and Forum programmes.
DOCUMENTARY VERSUS REPORTAGE: Constructing a Drama
Most attempts to define the documentary genre have done so by distinguishing it from fiction. At the other end of the spectrum the documentary borders on factual reporting, but as with fiction the borders are not crystal clear and distinct.
HEDDY HONIGMANN: Music and Memory
“Crazy”, the latest documentary by Heddy Honigmann, premiered at the IDFA in Amsterdam this past fall, where it won the Audience Award