History
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Cinema Kawakeb
HISTORY: Inside a crumbling theatre in Amman, refugees guard reels and memories while century-spanning archives map the road from declarations to today’s Palestine.
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Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!
HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
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Krakow Film Festival spotlights Romanian documentary with 64th edition focus
Romanian cinema, long celebrated on the international stage, has found a new expression in documentary filmmaking that is garnering equal acclaim. At the forefront are directors such as #Radu Jude#, #Cristian Mungiu#, and #Cristi Puiu#, whose narratives have traditionally woven the complexities of Romania’s social and historical fabric. This spring, the 64th Krakow Film Festival‘s…
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Liberating the time
Milada Součková: The two experimental shorts by Andrea Culková revive the writing of the relatively unknown avant-garde Czech poet.
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A film from the dark side
HISTORY: Whatever happened to those who dreamed of space travel, wanting to be astronauts when they grew up?
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Who still remembers Zimmerwald?
HISTORY: The sleepy village that didn't want to be a part of world history.
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Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
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Knocking on heaven’s door
RUSSIA: Gorbachev's twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director
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A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed
HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might…