Haunting documentary
Bruno Ulmer’s haunting documentary “Welcome Europa” adds an aching testimony to the list of films on immigration to the “fortress” of Europe
France
ARTE : FACES OF EUROPE
Arte has launched “Faces of Europe”, an impressive series of half-hour docs documenting how we live, broadcast each weekday at 6.30 p.m.
Listener with her camera
The new film by Claire Simon bears the name of Simon’s friend Mimi whose story and personality make the film. While Mimi Chiola tells about her life, the film slowly takes form as a sort of imagery story created in the listener’s head by Mimi’s words and voice.
Don’t Worry – Fight
Arte is the TV channel from which producers are always trying to get a commission, as it still keeps the documentary flag flying.
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.
People who take soccer very, very seriously
It documents the realities of the game as perceived by soccer aficionados in Austria but also in the countries against which Austria played: Cameroon, Chile and Italy.
LUSSAS: Filming Science
The “États généraux du cinéma documentaire” in Lussas, France, is an annual forum for lively debates about the nature and purpose of documentary