Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
GAZA: Another journalist killed… but this time in the spotlight of the Cannes Film Festival.
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Encounters 2025 Documentary Festival announces provocative lineup for a world in crisis
The 27th edition of the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival returns from 19 to 29 June 2025, promising a programme of over 40 films from across the globe that grapple with some of the most urgent social, political, and environmental issues of our time. This year’s festival arrives with the assertion that «the world…
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DOK.fest München: «We decided to make our curatorial line speak for itself»
INTERVIEW: Deputy Managing Director Adele Kohout and Head for DOK.network Africa Barbara Off discuss the festival's evolution, role within the European documentary landscape, and the significance of its thematic programming.
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How to Build a Library
EDUCATION: Efforts to renovate Kenya’s historic libraries reveal how fragile democracies manipulate cultural spaces for control, suppression, and neocolonial interests.
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Capturing Water
WATER: As Cape Town nears disaster, activists fight water cut-offs in a story about governance, climate, and social justice.
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The Tree of Authenticity
ECOLOGY: Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.
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Mr Nobody Against Putin
RUSSIA: How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
