Ukraine
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Movies That Matter 2024: the complete winners
In a celebration of cinema that marries social critique and harrowing narratives, the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague has honoured outstanding films in its 16th edition. The Grand Jury Fiction Award, with a €5,000 prize, was bestowed upon Radical, a Mexican comedy-drama by Christiopher Zalla featuring Eugenio Derbez. Lauded for its poignant take…
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«We aim to accommodate differing opinions and be welcoming towards them, even those critical of our role»
CPH:DOX: With its Head of Industry and Artistic Director, we discuss specific aspects of the CPH:DOX Industry programme, the secrets of a well-rounded festival, ensuring safety and free speech for all, and much more.
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The bot economy
TECH: Discover the silent drain on global ad budgets with Unclickable, an investigative documentary revealing how digital ad fraud impacts not just companies but the very fabric of society and democracy.
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Of Caravans and the Dogs
RUSSIA: Askold Kurov's compelling documentary Of Caravan and the Dogs details the final destruction of independent voices in Putin's Russia that oppose his war on Ukraine.
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Baltic Sea Docs 2024 launches call for documentary film projects
The Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (Baltic Sea Docs) has announced its call for projects for its 28th edition with a deadline of 10 May.. Scheduled for 1-8 September 2024 in Riga, Latvia, the forum is open to independent production companies from the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and others with documentaries pertaining…
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Krakow Film Festival puts Russia under scrutiny with two competition films
Two years after the onset of Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, the Krakow Film Festival shines a light on the conflict from an unexpected angle through its International Documentary Competition. The festival has taken a stance against showcasing Russian-produced films, except for those created outside the system that openly critique Putin’s politics. This year, two documentaries,…
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Death – more or less real
REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film's contact with reality.
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Still life
UKRAINE: Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.
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The impermanence of concrete
ARCHITECTURE: Victor Kossakovsky's high art meditation on the failure of modern architecture, Architecton is a beautiful vision of how stone has shaped humanity.