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Influential Polish documentary filmmaker Marcel Łoziński passes away
Marcel Łoziński, who has died at the age of 85, was one of Poland’s most influential documentary filmmakers and a figure of lasting importance in world cinema. Over a career spanning six decades, he developed a distinctive method that combined staged situations, provocation, and careful observation to reveal truths about political systems and human experience.…
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Polish stories, German queer docs feature at 64th Krakow Film Festival
The 2024 Krakow Film Festival is set to feature a poignant exploration of Polish society with the inclusion of Silent Trees by #Agnieszka Zwiefka# and A Year in the Life of the Country by #Tomasz Wolski#. These films, though separated by four decades, offer a stark examination of narratives shaped from the top echelons of…
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Documenting resistance through cinema
MYANMAR Pots and pans against bullets and bombs: the story of Myanmar’s rising resistance to the military coup of February, 2021.
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The new tendencies of Taiwanese documentary
TAIWAN: A creative mixture of documentary, animation, and experimental approaches, offers a spectrum of contemporary Taiwan’s lived realities.
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Taking down a regime
South Korean citizens made history when – armed with lighted candles and demands of justice – they brought down president Park Geun-hye and her conservative party in 2017. Director Nungcool and her crew documented the experience.