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Orlando Pantera
MUSIC: Catarina Alves Costa’s portrait of Orlando Pantera avoids the mythology of his death, choosing instead a slow, humane chorus of voices, landscapes, and songs.
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Verzió DocLab 2025 opens applications for 10th edition
The Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has announced the 10th edition of #Verzió DocLab#, its five-day documentary development workshop, scheduled for 8–12 November 2025 at the Central European University Budapest Campus. Applications are open until 31 July 2025. Targeting first or second feature-length documentary projects, the program offers directors, editors, and producers the…
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«Any help that we can provide to emerging filmmakers will be given»
DOC AROUND EUROPE: In this interview, we speak with Adele Kohout, co-director of DOK.fest München, and Johanna von Websky, Assistant to the Managing Director, to delve deeper into the vision behind this platform and its potential to reshape the future of European documentary cinema.
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«We continue to remain as accessible to our audiences as possible»
Verzió IHRDFF: Ahead of its 2024 edition, Modern Times Review speaks with Festival Director Enikő Gyureskó, who shares insights into the curation process and this year’s diverse and provocative lineup.
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Majordocs 2024: the complete winners
At the conclusion of the sixth edition of #MajorDocs, two films emerged as top winners. Objeto de estudio, directed by Raúl Alaejos, received the Jury Prize, while Kix, directed by David Mikulán and Bálint Réves, won the Audience Award. The festival also saw a significant rise in attendance, with a 50% increase compared to 2023,…
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Eastern promises
ELECTIONS: Tricked by cynical populists' fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.
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The case of the mighty stick figures
INDIA: Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja's struggle against censorship and legal threats for her politically charged cartoons critical of the country's direction.
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The perilous path of exposing corruption
IRAN: Examining Iran's lack of free media and the risks faced by those, like Roohallah Zam, who dare to challenge the clerical elite's authority.
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The cost of progress
POLLUTION: An exploration of the inextricable link between breathtaking natural beauty and ecological and health disaster, as much as that of life and death, in a Sicilian contested petrochemical plant.