Margreth Olin
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«We look for documentaries which make a difference»
NORDIC/DOCS: Festival Director Paul René Roestad speaks with Modern Times Review on the 2025 edition of the Fredrikstad, Norway documentary festival.
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Nordic/Docs announces full 2025 programme
Norway’s #Nordic/Docs# has released the complete lineup for its 2025 edition, running 9–14 September at Fredrikstad Kino. Organisers say the program includes more than 70 films from Norway and abroad, alongside director talks, debates, seminars, a masterclass, and an awards ceremony. The festival opens with Fighter, a feature following Geir Kåre Nyland, a former MMA…
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Respectful and lovingly humorous
REHABILITATION: In black and white, well-composed images, Øystein Mamen follows four men in Halden prison. All inmates have committed particularly serious crimes. He shows what recognition and charity can do to people.
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Memories of a Retreating Glacier
EXISTENTIALISM: Life, death, nature, and presence amidst the primordial forces of the earth.
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CPH:DOX announces full 2023 CPH:CONFERENCE programme
Curated in partnership with the prominent training initiative #Documentary Campus#, #CPH:DOX has announced its full 2023 CPH:CONFERENCE programme, taking place in Copenhagen from 20-24 March 2023. Under the theme FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS, this year’s CPH:CONFERENCE aims to gather the international non-fiction community to collectively envision the future of the industry, discover and unlock the…
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Krakow Film Festival announces 61st jury members
The 61st edition of the Krakow Film Festival has announced its juries. Each jury is made up of filmmakers from around the world, representatives of international festivals and culture, as well as previous Krakow Film Festival award-winners. Documentary Film Mark Cousins (UK) – director, film critic, cinema enthusiast Margreth Olin (Norway) – documentary film director,…
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CPH:DOX announces climate-changed focused opening film: CPH:FORUM selections
Taking place 21 April through 2 May 2021, #CPH:DOX has announced its opening film, as well as CPH:FORUM projects. Kicking things off for the Copenhagen Documentary Festival will be Danish director Phie Ambo’s climate-change focused 70/30. The film asks profound and important questions: How do we fight climate change? At what cost? And are politicians…
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Skinless exposure
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits
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The director as Fairy Godmother
Is the credibility of a documentary film in danger when the director changes the life story being portrayed in order to get the saleable result he or she wants?