Ukraine
Sunlight on pause in Kharkiv’s underground
UKRAINE: The courage and community of Kharkiv’s metro dwellers amidst ongoing attacks.
Movies That Matter 2024: the complete winners
In a celebration of cinema that marries social critique and harrowing narratives, the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague
«We aim to accommodate differing opinions and be welcoming towards them, even those critical of our role»
CPH:DOX: With its Head of Industry and Artistic Director, we discuss specific aspects of the CPH:DOX Industry programme, the secrets of a well-rounded festival, ensuring safety and free speech for all, and much more.
The bot economy
TECH: Discover the silent drain on global ad budgets with Unclickable, an investigative documentary revealing how digital ad fraud impacts not just companies but the very fabric of society and democracy.
Of Caravans and the Dogs
RUSSIA: Askold Kurov’s compelling documentary Of Caravan and the Dogs details the final destruction of independent voices in Putin’s Russia that oppose his war on Ukraine.
Baltic Sea Docs 2024 launches call for documentary film projects
The Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (Baltic Sea Docs) has announced its call for projects for its 28th edition with
Krakow Film Festival puts Russia under scrutiny with two competition films
Two years after the onset of Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, the Krakow Film Festival shines a light on the conflict
Death – more or less real
REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film’s contact with reality.
Still life
UKRAINE: Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.
The impermanence of concrete
ARCHITECTURE: Victor Kossakovsky’s high art meditation on the failure of modern architecture, Architecton is a beautiful vision of how stone has shaped humanity.
The meaning of war
UKRAINE: Abel Ferrara’s idiosyncratic take on the war in Ukraine melds poetic performances by Patti Smith with the experience of people at war.