To The West, In Zapata
CUBA: A hypnotic black and white portrait of family life on the margins, where propaganda blares from the radio and love becomes the last reliable safety net.
Cuba
The art of information
INTERVIEW: In his master class at Makedox, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper exposed how to «write-in-movement», which literally means «cinemato-graphy». He also talked about political cinema and mental ecology. We met him for our in-depth film interview, especially about his last three films.
MIA Market 2025 puts documentary, PSB strategy and policy in the same room
MIA MARKET: With 100+ projects and new policy rooms, MIA 2025 frames market design as cultural infrastructure for documentary, drama and animation.
DOK Leipzig Retrospective explores «third ways» of the Cold War»
The 67th edition of #DOK Leipzig#, from 28 October to 3 November 2024, will feature the Retrospective, «Third Ways in
The revolution may very well be televised
RESISTANCE How liberation theology inspired millions of Latin American Christians to engage in 20th-century political struggles, challenging traditional Church-Power dynamics for earthly justice.
Dark days revisited
SYRIA: Former ISIS hostage Marc Marginedas returns to Raqqa to confront the ghosts of his past.
Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles for 2022 festival
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to
Neither banal nor evil
CONTROL: A search for understanding from a survivor of Aum Shinrikyo’s 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway.
Last stop utopia
CUBA: After ushering in the American Empire and its eventual revolt against it, Hubert Sauper takes an immersive look at Cuba and its people.
The Cuban veteran for whom the Revolution lives on
As his country slowly moves past its communist decades, a Cuban veteran is stuck in the past.
The power of vanity
Nicolas Wadimoff’s portrait of his old teacher, the Swiss intellectual and revolutionary Jean Ziegler, attempts to test convictions against realities.
Images of voids in black ink
Monthly steaming for subscribers: Is it possible to be forgiven for abandoning your children in order to fight for a higher end?