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Verzió Film Festival introduces LGBTQ+ competition section; announces VR section theme
The Verzió Documentary Film Festival is launching its inaugural #LGBTQ+ competition section under the theme «We Are Here.» Featured films delve into intimate narratives, from Poland’s queer performers to Cameroon’s LGBTQ+ community facing #homophobia. The festival, set to take place in Budapest, also includes special events like a voguing and ballroom-inspired party. Among the standout…
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Watch Docs announces full programme for 23rd Human Rights Film Festival
The 23rd edition of the International Film Festival #WATCH DOCS#. Human Rights in Film is set to kick off on 1st December, marking ten days of thought-provoking cinema in Warsaw and online throughout Poland. This year’s festival boasts a programme of over 50 documentaries, blending artful storytelling with acute social awareness. Spanning 70 screenings, the…
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Filming the right-wing with ‘an open heart’
HOMOPHOBIA: Polish Prayers unravels the trajectory of a young Pole as he journeys away from the homophonic, ultra-conservative Brotherhood
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She wrote what she could not live
BIOGRAPHY: Based on the unpublished diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith draws a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors.
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An ever-creeping feeling of loneliness
ISOLATION: Daniel Schreiber visits a wealth of hermit literature – such as Thoreau's Walden and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. But what does social withdrawal mean today?
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Landscapes of Resistance
TRAUMA: An unorthodox documentary on the exceptional journey of one of Serbia's first female partisans, who helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz.