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It’s others that interest me

Carmen Gray / April 30, 2019

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: At 90, French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda reflects on her career and a creative philosophy of community and empathy.

activism, Agnès Varda, autobiography, Christians, cinema, Dany Boon, eyelet, female, French New Wave pioneer, fundamentalist, HUMAN idff Oslo, IDFA, Joey Faré, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, New Black Panther Party, New Orleans, photojournalism, Rosalie Varda, texas, Varda by Agnès

When your country is against you

JoAnne Velin / April 4, 2019

BLACK AMERICA: Robert Minervini’s new documentary examines a community of disenfranchised people in New Orleans and their struggle for survival in a country that seems to have forsaken them.

Bari, BLACK AMERICA:, Christians, copenhagen, Cosa Nostra, CPH:DOX, eyelet, fundamentalist, Italy, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Mafia, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, New Black Panther Party, New Orleans, Okta Film, Palermo, photojournalism, Pulpa Film, Pulpa Film (US), Rai Cinema, Roberto Minervini, Rosaria Schifani, Sarajevo Film Festival, Shellac Sud, texas, Totò Riina, What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire?

Exposing the misery of the Mafia

Francesca Borri / March 15, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY: Letizia Battaglia never introduced herself as a photographer of the Mafia. She was taking pictures of Palermo, she says, where the Mafia is simply part of everyday life and routines.

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BIOGRAPHY: «Why are you a problematic pop star? » director Stephen Loveridge asks M.I.A. in his documentary. The answers provided by the film point towards more than an uncompromising and sometimes challenging personality.

Andrew Goldman, Arular, Bill Maher, biography, British, Britpop, Chernobyl, civil war, Cold War, dancehall, Dhani Harrison, donald trump, East German, Eelam, Elastica, electro, eyelet, famine, genocide, George Bush, hip hop, Hungary, Iron Curtain, Justine Frischmann, Kala, Konstantin Chernenko, law, Leonid Brezhnev, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, London, Lori Cheatle, LTTE, M.I.A., Madonna, Matangi, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Mathangi Arulpragasam, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam, Maya, media, Mikhail Lermontov, Miklos Nemeth, music, music documentary, New York Times, Paul Hicks, Paul Mezey, Pavel Palazhchenko, pop doc, pop star, punk, rules, scepticism, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, Stephen Loveridge, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, vladimir putin, world music, Yuri Andropov

One of the greatest leaders of the 20th century

Nick Holdsworth / October 29, 2018

RUSSIA: Meeting Gorbachev is an intimate and engaging portrait of the man who unwittingly prompted the collapse of the Soviet Union.

al-Nusra, al-Qaida, Amsterdam, Andre Singer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Berlin, Chernobyl, Christopher Nolan, Cinéma du réel, Cold War, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, digital revolution, DOK Leipzig, donald trump, East German, eyelet, famine, George Bush, Gorbachev, History, Hungary, ideology, industry, Iron Curtain, isis, Konstantin Chernenko, law, Leonid Brezhnev, Lucki Stipetić, MakeDox, Martin Scorsese, Meeting Gorbachev, Mikhail Lermontov, Miklos Nemeth, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Pavel Palazhchenko, president, Russia, Soviet Union, Steven Spielberg, Svetlana Palmer, taliban, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, vladimir putin, war, Werner Herzog, Yuri Andropov

Windows of American culture

Harriette Yahr / March 5, 2018

SUNDANCE: RBG and Minding the Gap are American testimonies of truth and power from both a public and personal point of view.

Betsy West, Bing Liu, Chicago, Documentary, eyelet, Harvard, Julie Cohen, MeToo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sundance, Supreme Court, United States, Washington Post

A Jihadistic family portrait

Aleksander Huser / March 5, 2018

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.

Afghani, al-Nusra, al-Qaida, Amsterdam, Ansgar Frerich, Berlin, conflict, Eva Kemme, eyelet, Free Syrian Army, God, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, ideology, isis, jihadists, Of Fathers and Sons, Osama, Religion, Syria, Syrian Army, Talal Derki, taliban, Tobias N. Siebert, war, war photographer

A thought-provoking, peculiar exploration of nature

Ellen Lande / March 5, 2018

ECOLOGY: A magnificent documentary about the natural origins of what we consider to be man-made and the connection between man and nature.

Becoming Animal, black lives matter, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, DA Films, ecology, Emma Davie, eyelet, Hannah Arendt, human, james baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, nature, Peter Mettler, Visions du réel

The necessity of role models

Kjetil Røed / February 21, 2017

BIOGRAPHY: We can all learn something about consideration and honesty by James Baldwin.

biography, black lives matter, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, eyelet, Hannah Arendt, Hébert Peck, I Am Not Your Negro, james baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, MTR1, racism, Raoul Peck, Raoul Peck.Photography & script: James Baldwin., Rémi Grellety, USA

They finally got him

Melanie Sevcenko / July 1, 2012

DISSENT: Some of the gutsiest actions ever taken by an artist in a severely censored nation are done by Ai Wei Wei.

Adam Schlesinger, Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alison Klayman, Andrew Cohen, Berlinale, Chengdu, China, Communist Party, DISSENT, eyelet, Liu Xiaobo, Shanghai, Twitter