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Factory farming filth

Nick Holdsworth / October 15, 2020

FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.

activism, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bird flu, Bolsonaro, capitalism, China, Christopher Dillon Quinn, coronavirus, donald trump, Eating Animals, ecology, Emmanuel Macron, factory farming, Factual America, farming, Greta Thunberg, IDFA, India, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kansas, Natalie Portman, New York, Pope Francis, Putin, Stockholm, Sundance, United States, vegan, vegetarian

Women Power

Melita Zajc / September 13, 2020

BIOGRAPHY: Subtly assembled, minimalist praise of the goodness and beauty, intelligence and power of the female members of Roberto Rossellini’s families.

Alessandro Rossellini, biography, DOK.fest München, India, Ingrid Bergman, Maria Teresa Tringali, neorealism, Raffaele Brunetti, Roberto Rossellini, The Rossellinis, Visions du réel, Vittorio De Sica

Dreams of freedom and irresponsibility

Marianne Solberg / September 6, 2020

HYDRA: Axel Jensen, Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen in a new perspective. Polly Sampson’s new book is a feminist correction of mythologized authors.

alcoholism, Axel Jensen, Charmaine Clift, death, George Johnston, Hydra, India, James Burke, Leonard Cohen, life, LSD

Fishing in tidal waters

Tristen Bakker / October 30, 2019

ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India.

culture, DOK Leipzig, ecology, fishing, heritage, India, Mirya, Public Service Broadcasting Trust, Renu Savant, The Ebb Tide

Ghandi’s method

Truls Lie / October 11, 2019

PHILOSOPHY: Can traditions of brotherhood, friendship, and solidarity still be established amongst today’s majorities?

Ghandi, India, Israel, Johan Galtung, Leo Tolstoy, non violence, Pakistan, philosophy, We are all brothers and sisters

A mesmerising portrayal of India’s extreme right

Bianca-Olivia Nita / February 22, 2019

Covering more than a century of Indian history, Patwardhan weaves a story that exposes the roots of Hindu nationalism and the endless war against India’s «imaginary demons».

activists, Anand Patwardhan, Brahmanism, Brahminical, courage, Dalits, equilibrium, extremism, extremist, Goa, Golden Age, Govind Pansare, Hindu, Hindus, Hindutva, hypnotherapist, IDFA, India, Indian, M.M. Kalburgi, muslim, Muslims, Narendra Dabholkar, nationalism, Patwardhan, Reason, rollercoaster, Sanatan, Sanatan Sanstha, society, spiritual, students, Toronto, true-false, Truth, university, Vedic

Werner Herzog: «Facts do not constitute the truth»

Sevara Pan / February 10, 2019

Acclaimed German film director Werner Herzog talks about his most recent film Meeting Gorbachev, while also warning against trying to articulate the truth in precise terms.

Andre Singer, Arms Reduction Treaty, black humour, Brazil, China, Cinema Vérité, demonisation, digitalisation, DOK Leipzig, Ecstatic Truths, Gorbachev, Gulf War, India, Kristina Jaspers, Kuwait, Leonid Brezhnev, Lessons of Darkness, Meeting Gorbachev, Pakistan, post-Gulf, post-Gulf War, Ramin Bahrani, Russia, USSR, WernAcular, Werner Herzog

Far from the shallow now: two highlights from Underdox

Neil Young / December 20, 2018

Two newcomers stood out from the crowd at this year’s Underdox in Munich. Sec Rouge – one of 2018’s most striking, accomplished and beautiful films of any length – and the seminal and glowingly delicate 48-minute film, Accession.

16mm, Accession, African, American, Americana, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, atavistic, Berlin, Chicago, China, Cinema Vérité, climate change, Communication, coup de cinema, Dutch, ecology, expeditions, fishing, fragile, Francophone, French, Fünferfilm, Hamburg, hyper-commercialised, imperfections, India, Indian Ocean, inspiring, Kate Tessa Lee, Los Angeles, lunar, Mauritius, Munich, octopus, phenomenon, piqueuse ourite, president, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rural, Sec Rouge, seeds, Singapore, slow cinema, Sugar, Tamer Hassan, Tom Schön, Underdox, US Mail, vintage

More than human

Truls Lie / November 11, 2018

ENVIRONMENT: Peter Mettler is known for his intuitive and experimental film making. The new film Becoming Animal has also an ecological and philosophical depth, as it involves the Canadian philosopher David Abram.

animism, Arne Næss, Becoming Animal, Buddhist, camping, Canada, Canadian, collaborators, Cosmology, David Abram, Docudays UA, ecopsychology, ecosystem, elk, Emma Davie, environment, experiment, Gambling, geology, Global Justice, Gods and LSD, Grand Teton, Greenpeace, human world, IDFA, India, intellect, Modern Times Review, Peter Mettler, Petropolis, philosopher, physicist, Picture of Light, producers, psychiatrist, Scottish, seminar, Statoil, Switzerland, technology, Tectonic Plates, The Spell of the Sensuous, theatre, University of Oslo, USA, wilderness, wildlife, Wyoming

Women’s expression: Two shorts from the Berlinale

Neil Young / April 10, 2018

The thought provoking realities of Jayisha Patel’s shortfilm Circle, stands in stark contrast to the realities of the cotton-picking corner of Alabama – portrayed in Maris Curran’s short While I Yet Live.

African-American, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, female Red Brigade, Golden Bear, India, Jayisha Patel, Maris Curran, movement, rape

Avec les compliments du guide. Sarkozy-Kadhafi, l’histoire secrète

Money and corpses in Sarkozy’s wake

Ketil Fred Hansen / March 1, 2018

LIBYA: French journalists Arfi and Laske dig into the real causes of the 2011 bombing.

Brazil, China, Choukri Ghanem, embargo, euro, Gaddafi, Germany, India, Jan Petersen, Libya, NATO, Russia, Tripoli, UN

Men made Machines

Willemien Sanders / October 12, 2017

Machines depicts the inner world of a textile factory in Gujarat, India. Men work among gigantic machinery to produce brightly coloured fabrics. The film strongly echoes the work of late Austrian director Michael Glawogger.

India, machines, rahul jain