Stalin
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Living in the trash
IDENTITY: From the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, an intense look into the lives of the neglected and forgotten.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films
The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and acute glance at the most heated issues of our times. The International Competition includes Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, which unfolds the spectacular and ambivalent story of the bulletproof vest’s inventor. In A House Made of…
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The soldiers who refused to die
CONFLICT: A Soviet soldier of Tatar descent captured by the Nazis during WWII leads to a story of an army caught between dictators.
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Tutors and open programme announced for Ex Oriente Film 2021 second session
Organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with #FAMU, Ex Oriente Film 2021 second session workshop will offer a series of lectures, case studies, and masterclasses dedicated to various aspects of documentary filmmaking, production, and distribution. Below find the Open Program for the 2nd Ex Oriente Film Session: Production and Story Development, taking…
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Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union
CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine's German occupation.
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Nothing to envy
IDENTITY: Annexed by Russia after WWII, inhabitants of a picturesque Pacific island long for a better future while finding traces of its Japanese past.
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Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa's new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
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Archival disaster tourism
The archival footage from a court action against leading scientists in the Soviet Union of 1930 has been reconfigured into a narrative drama, which leads today‘s audience to believe the opposite of contemporary spectators.
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Stalin’s Many Admirers in Today’s Russia
STALIN, RUSSIA: Through interviews, observations and archival footage, this documentary explores the present baffling and widespread reverence of Stalin.