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.
tourism
The Town That Drove Away : «We witnessed how urbanisation became a façade»
INTERVIEW: Filmmakers Grzegorz Piekarski and Natalia Pietsch explore Turkey’s cultural erasure through the transformation of historic Hasankeyf into underwater tourism.
Smokehouses and soundscapes at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival will open on 25 May 2025 with the world premiere of The Queen and the
Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
Time to the Target
UKRAINE: Lviv, a city caught between everyday life and an unending funeral procession during war.
Modern remains
TOURISM: Combining performance, visual effects, newly captured and found footage, this hybrid work offers an exploratory journey through the desolate remnants of an abandoned tourist complex in Türkiye.
Portuguese films shine across 2024 MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival programme
The MDOC – Melgaço International Documentary Festival will take place from 29 July to 4 August, 2024. This year’s event
The paradox of travel
TOURISM: In the age of over-tourism, Onlookers asks what it is we seek when we travel?
The romanticisation of lived reality under the totalitarian régime
DARK RED FOREST: The director leaves us only to guess his true intention – honesty or paying lip service to the propaganda?
In anxious service at the poolside
LABOUR: A new world of colourful bikinis and intense demands opens up to two shy young men working at an all-inclusive hotel on the Turkish Riviera.
