The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias
PHILOSOPHY: In the grand conclusion of his Pervert’s Guide trilogy, Slavoj Žižek wants us to embrace the end of the world with a healthy dose of radical pessimism.
Slovenia
When I Get Out
PRISON: Filmed over a year and a half inside Slovenia’s main male prison, When I Get Out uses psychodrama to explore trauma and normality.
Living with floods and garbage
CLIMATE: Once more, the formidable Brahmaputra river is on the ascent. Amidst a vanishing mud island, Afrin, a 12-year-old orphan, readies herself to depart from the sole realm she’s ever been acquainted with.
When the world is really on fire
EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch. Will it happen now?
The sound of digital culture
MUSIC: Three teenagers living in small-town 1970s Norway go on to become one of the 80s top-selling acts, and music pioneers in the process.
Feminine mystique: Rewriting the female narrative in Terra Femme and Sava
This year’s 20th #DokuFest offered over 200 films from all around the world across its 19 sections. These sections consisted
IDF/DAE survey finds limited Central & Eastern European documentary representation across continent markets
At Sunny Side of the Doc on 23 June, 2021 the Institute of Documentary Film and DAE – Documentary Association
Ideologies and refugees
Migrants: Refugee deterrent border fences add to the already complicated relationship between the Croats and Slovenians of the Kupa region.
Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces 5 selected 2021 projects
The 11th edition of Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the development platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center,
Documentary as an ecological system
CINEMA: A glimpse into the ever-evolving way in which documentaries investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world.
Walls of fear
The Border Fence draws out the anxieties and fears of a community in the grip of a shifting political landscape, provoking unavoidable parallels with an increasingly divisive Europe.