filmmaking
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BALKAN DOCUMENTARIES: Facing a Brighter Future
Balkan documentaries are increasingly finding their way to the major doc festivals and international TV, and they are more creative, inspiring and engaging than ever.
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GZ DOC 2006: International Chinese Doc Festival
Festivals and broadcasters around the world have started to show immense interest in Chinese docs, and China has started to become aware of the international doc business
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THESSALONIKI DOC FESTIVAL 2006: Documentary as Cinema
Thessaloniki Doc Fest was a showcase for some great pieces of documentary cinema, equally pervaded by urgency and visual idioms.
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TURKISH WOMEN’S OUTLOOK: From the Bridge between East and West
Although there is practically no market for documentary films in Turkey, a vivid, independent film scene has developed over the past few years, reflecting the lebensgefühl and the social and political awareness of filmmakers who grew up in the dual culture of a country struggling to define its pivotal place as a bridge between East…
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ARUNAS MATELIS: Portrait
Arunas Matelis, one of Lithuania’s most original documentary directors, takes a personal, playful approach to filmmaking.
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VISIONS DU RÉEL 2005: Life and Death on Display in Nyon
For the eleventh time, the Nyon festival once again proved its intention to stimulate the curious lover of ‘cinema du réel’ with a selection of thought-provoking, reflective, investigative, contemplative and experimental films and film essays dealing with reality, form and content with personal and creative pertinence.
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KOREAN DOCUMENTARY 2000: Between the Global and the Local
In recent years the Korean documentary has taken a new direction, moving toward a much more diverse expression. New independent docs have entered the scene. They are still primarily targeted at the local population, but also aim for global appeal.
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The gleaners and the female gleaner
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda.
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LUIS BUñUEL-100 YEARS: Zero in Conduct
A homage to Luis Buñuel on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth by Tue Steen Müller.