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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Letters from the Silenced Country
BELARUS: A sombre and shocking glimpse inside the horror that opponents of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko experience.
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The Legend of the Desert
SAHARA: recordings of this trip to the Sahara from the 1990s in the family archives
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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.
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No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
CONFLICT: Halkawt Mustafa's No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman seizes the toxic grammar of post-9/11 war cinema and hands it to a female Peshmerga sniper, reclaiming dignity for the women, the land and the cinema that ISIS has erased.
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Concrete Land
PALESTINE: Asmahan Bkerat spent eight years with a landless Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family outside Amman, filming a life built around animals and song that Jordanian bureaucracy is slowly dismantling.
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Electing Ms Santa
POLITICS: Raisa Răzmeriță's debut documentary follows Elena, a Moldovan social activist known locally as Santa, as she moves from solving her village's problems to openly challenging its entrenched male leadership.
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How To Feed A Dictator
POWER: How to Feed a Dictator turns the private kitchens of five twentieth-century tyrants into a study of complicity and appetite.
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Good People
CORRUPTION: Survivors of North Macedonia's deadliest nightclub fire speak directly to camera in Milcho Manchevski's self-funded response to a corruption scandal he lived through himself.
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The Siege of Paradise
TOURISM: Follow the residents of Cinque Terre as they navigate a tourist economy that both sustains and slowly erodes the villages they call home.
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Earth’s Greatest Enemy
MILITARISM: Abby Martin and Mike Prysner spent five years costing out the U.S. military as a planetary object. Washington answered this month by asking for another $1.5 trillion and putting the word War back on the door.