Latin America
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Russia without Putin
RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day - but don't expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today's Russia.
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É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True at Cannes Docs – Marché du Film
Amir Labaki founder and director of It’s All True, celebrating it’s 25th edition this year. Anna Glogowski as moderator and festival director, she is an international advisor and jury member for many documentary festivals. With guests: Petra Costa premiered The Edge of Democracy at Sundance Film Festival 2019 and has since gained some popularity as…
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A colony of remembering and forgetting
TRAUMA: The inhabitants of a small German colony in Chile once founded as a sectarian settlement, develop different narratives to cope with its grim and traumatic past.
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Orwa Nyrabia – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
IDFA: The new artistic director at IDFA talks about the new features of the documentary industry and how watching a documentary can turn into a life-changing experience.
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An unscrupulous empire about to fall
In his new book, Alfred W. McCoy collects his multiple analyses of the US as an empire, and describes how violence practiced in the periphery will accompany you all the way home.
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What happens in the mix?
DOX:LAB experiments with hybrid forms of filmmaking, enabling crossovers, not only between directors and cultures, but also between storytelling and languages of film.
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Search of the music of the sacred and the sacred within music
Can musical influences be described in terms of their sociocultural genealogy, or their historical/ geographical roots?
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“La dieciocho”, the so-called 18th Street gang
The director’s tragic destiny in the aftermath of the making and release of The Crazy Life adds to the documentary’s already dubiously macabre tensions.
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Daily life inside the biggest jail in Latin-America
Portrait, filmed partly by the inmates themselves, of the daily life in Carandiru, the largest prison in Latin America.