Sergei Loznitsa
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Ji.hlava IDFF unveils full 2025 programme
The 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has announced its full programme ahead of its 2025 edition, running October 24–November 2 in Jihlava, Czechia. This year’s event features 305 films across competitive and non-competitive strands, including 76 world premieres, 28 international premieres and 15 European premieres. The festival opens with Barbora Chalupová’s Virtual Girlfriends, a…
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Trieste Film Festival announces full programme for 36th edition
The 36th edition of the Trieste Film Festival returns from 16–24 January 2025. Under the direction of #Nicoletta Romeo#, this year’s festival showcases over 130 films, including Italian premieres, competitions, and thematic sections. This year’s overarching theme delves into the turbulence of the #Balkans from the 1990s to the present, exploring how families—dysfunctional, fluid, and…
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Documentary filmmaking and ethics take center stage at upcoming Ji.hlava IDFF conference
The much-anticipated second edition of the Conference on Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking is set to take place on 26 October, offering a unique platform for dialogue among academics, professionals, and the general public interested in the intersections of documentary filmmaking and ethics. Organized by Ji.hlava IDFF in partnership with the Center for Media Ethics and…
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Beldocs unveils full 2023 programme
The 2023 edition of #Beldocs, the boutique Eastern European film festival focusing on non-fiction cinema, promises to be a vibrant celebration of diverse and unique cinematic works from across the globe. With 105 films on display, including nine world premieres and four international premieres, the festival has once again brought together a wide range of…
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Freedom, limited
RUSSIA: The authoritarian stranglehold of the Kremlin closes in across national holidays in contemporary Russia.
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History repeating
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today's atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.
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Ji.hlava IDFF announces full 2022 programme
For its 2022 edition, the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will screen over three hundred films across all sections, including a unique retrospective of American Oscar-winning avant-gardist #Shirley Clarke# or the largest ever retrospective of Filipino cinema outside of Asia. Additionally, the festival spot was created by the internationally respected #Roberto Minervini#, whose retrospective was…
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A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
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Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles for 2022 festival
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to 30 October. As every year, the festival will bring new original documentaries, thematic retrospectives, the best in experimental filmmaking and a number of non-competitive programme sections. Now, Ji.hlava IDFF has announced the first titles and…