Chilean documentaries set for strong Visions du Réel & CPH:DOX showing
With both Visions du Réel and CPH:DOX imminent, Chile has set its selections for both prestigious international events. Visions du
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Extraordinary women
FEMALE VOICES: New forms of expression and film language set two films apart from the 30th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival
The world could have been different now
IRAN: Hidden for decades, never seen before archive material leads to explosive revelations about the overthrow of the Iranian government.
The deceptive glitter of gold
CAPITALISM: Established as the second greatest threat to humanity after global warming, the dark heart of mining pollution in South Africa is laid bare.
Between two stools
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: An intimate look at an indigenous people’s tensions with Chile.
«Chile is now living a transformation»
ChileDoc: With a strong showing of work at both DOK Leipzig and IDFA, Chile’s documentary output continues to thrive. To find out more Modern Times Review spoke with the Director of Chiledoc, Diego Pino Anguita.
The spiritual significance of water
ECOLOGY: Fresh from a competition screening at DOK Leipzig, Violeta Paus’ short film is a haunting and lyrical look at water pollution and deprivation.
Entre dos aguas
DERECHOS INDÍGENAS: Una mirada íntima a las tensiones de los pueblos indígenas en conflicto con Chile.
A colony of remembering and forgetting
TRAUMA: The inhabitants of a small German colony in Chile once founded as a sectarian settlement, develop different narratives to cope with its grim and traumatic past.
«I see the genre’s remarkable momentum going on for some time»
FESTIVAL de CANNES: The head of Cannes Docs, Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, Pierre-Alexis Chevit, speaks on the documentary focused initiative at the world-renowned film festival.
One’s Own Truth as Protection
September 11 is a historical date for most of us, but for many others, it has a different meaning entirely.
The winners’ recollection
A nation’s collective recollection forms its expectations. A dialogue between past and presence is implicit in Patrico Guzman’s films on Chile’s recent past, whilst Mexico’s Diego Gutiérrez and Sarah Polley from Canada discuss their own and parents’ memories. The truth is cleansing, but we all need interpretations or rewrites in order to cope with the all too real.