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Immortals
IRAQ: Three voices seek identity and connection as Baghdad emerges as a living character shaped by politics and patriarchy.
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The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
GENDER: Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.
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Cinemata aims to be movement infrastructure for documentary in Asia-Pacific
Cinemata, the Asia-Pacific video platform run by EngageMedia, is positioning itself as movement infrastructure for social-issue filmmaking rather than another ad-tech venue for views. Launched in 2021 to host advocacy films that often struggle on mainstream platforms, Cinemata now says it carries more than 6,000 user-contributed works from 30+ countries, spanning documentary, fiction, animation, and…
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What about identity?
IRELAND: Irish filmmakers redefine identity through intimate, political, and historical documentaries at the Krakow Film Festival’s Focus on Ireland programme.
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Cultural sanctuaries amidst relentless urban development
CHINA: Ben Mullinkosson’s The Last Year of Darkness captures the ephemeral connections forged in Chengdu's queer nightclub scene.
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CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE: Intersections of flesh and code
REPORT: When CPH:DOX opened its doors for its 21st instalment between 13 and 24 March 2024, it centred on issues ranging from fertility, ableism, discrimination and trauma, regarding the body as a site of socio-political conflict.


