History
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Teenage girls, secondary citizens
SOCIETY: Two Ji.hlava IDFF feature documentaries - 'Cusp' and 'Jane by Charlotte' - grapple with contemporary power dynamics and their effect on the adolescent female.
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Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened
DOK.REVUE: Olaf Möller remembers Karel Vachek, who died in December 2020 at the age of 80
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Filtering the truth of war through the lens of cinema
HISTORY: Ever since they met in 1911, the moving image and war have had a contentious relationship
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Invitation to a cursed landscape
HISTORY: Manque La Banca's Esqui places the spectator in arabesque labyrinths
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Fragments from Paris
HISTORY: In returning to Paris, German avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger resurrects memories of the city that she called home through the 1960s.
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Superficiality is the new dialogue
ART: A concept-oriented micro art history work that reevaluates its value
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The absurdity of humanity
HISTORY: A new doc based on the much-heralded book EUROPEANA attempts to hold true to its impassive recounting of the history of the 20th century.
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It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
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Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.