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Ji.hlava IDFF announces first 2023 programme details
The 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (IDFF) is set to launch in a mere six weeks, scheduled from 24 to 29 October 24, 2023. This year’s programme highlights a mix of acclaimed directors and contemporary subjects, with a particular emphasis on female filmmakers and issues. A significant feature is the retrospective dedicated to #Marguerite…
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Fascinating fascism and seductive leaders
NEO-FASCISM: Do many still have fascist yearnings today, or can one always blame seductive leaders? A closer dive into the 100-year-old Italian fascism and its descendants says something about the dangers we are likely to face.
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To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph
PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?
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The «good old days» myth
TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.
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Millennium Docs Against Gravity to feature Susan Sontag retrospective
The 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity (12 – 22 May 2022) will present both the first documentary films, as well as feature productions, of American essayist #Susan Sontag#. This will be the first time such a wide-ranging showcase will be presented to the public in #Poland. At Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the festival audience will…
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Ji.hlava IDFF celebrates 25 years with full programme announcement
The 25th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks-off in two weeks and celebrates a quarter-century. Three hundred films, including the latest Czech and international documentary cinema, will feature between 26 – 31 October 2021. Across its competitions and special sections, Ji.hlava IDFF welcomes 300 films. Highlights from across the programme include a retrospective of the film work of…
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Feeling the pictures
PHOTOGRAPHY: The controversial cult status of Helmut Newton, one of the great masters of photography, continues long after his 2004 death.
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