Cannes
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«Their stories and perspectives bring a different cinematic language and energy»
THESSALONIKI: Agora Director Angeliki Vergou discusses the 2023 film market for Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
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History repeating
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today's atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.
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Our memory cannot keep up with times
YOUTH: An evocative essay doc pays homage to cinema and student resistance in Modi's India.
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A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
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AJB DOC Film Festival announces jury for fifth edition
The fifth AJB DOC Festival Competition Programme has announced it five-member jury who will select the best film for the AJB DOC Main Award. All competing films enter the competition for the award, which awards the “AJB Program Award”. All films screened at also enter the competition for the Audience Award with a total value…
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«Since we are far from the big urban centres makes it a unique and different experience from other film festivals»
MDOC: Director Carlos Eduardo Viana on the Portuguese documentary festival's 2022 edition.
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Risk your body – obtain a new constitution
POLITICS: At Cannes, Patrizio Guzmán´s documentary offers one of the rare elements of hope in global politics.
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Living in the trash
IDENTITY: From the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, an intense look into the lives of the neglected and forgotten.
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Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’