A Jihadistic family portrait
CONFLICT: A rare insight into how the sons of the al-Nusra warriors in the Idlib Governorate of Syria are being raised to become the next generation of jihadists.
Berlin
Exodus – Catch 22
The Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Weiwei delivers a captivating life and death fresco of homeless hordes of people in Technicolor.
Gay in the Time of Late Capitalism
LGTB: Only the anarchists at the left-wing supported them. Yet it was capitalism that liberated them. The gay movement never became part of labor’s struggle.
Incarcerated Women
Suppression come in many forms. A collection of screenings at February’s Berlinale, portrayed various female destinies.
The transmediale festival in Berlin: Making films about themselves making films
The transmediale festival in Berlin is a quintessential summit for the discourse between art and digital culture. The “Immediated Autodocumentary” project – shot, edited and screened during the festival – points out how technology may have replaced the director with the transmedia producer.
BERLIN 2011: What matters in Berlin
Cinema for Peace addressed the unbearable heaviness of being. Also over the course of the Berlinale festival, the ambivalence towards social issues was explicit, as DOX’s Truls Lie experienced himself.
Unfinished logic
Where does one film begin and the other one end? A Film Unfinished is about, and “is” propaganda.
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.
BERLIN FESTIVAL 1999: Handling History
This year’s Berlin International Film Festival (February 11 – 21) offered the chance to watch many historical docs in a city saturated with history