Venice Film Festival
-
Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller: «Hope? I call it resistance»
INTERVIEW: Short in runtime, yet sprawling in its political scope. With They’re Here, Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller assembled an uncanny hybrid of horror film and documentary from crowdsourced footage, OSINT data and material shot on the ground in and around Minneapolis during the ultra-violent ICE occupation.
-
Melt
CLIMATE: Geyrhalter’s latest observes global snowscapes and people amid tourism and research, documenting vanishing ice, extreme weather, and urgent climate-policy questions.
-
Mnemonica marks 10 years with launch of «living» archive for digital cinema
A decade after setting out to «preserve and remember» in the shift from film to data, Rome-based Mnemonica says its cloud platform has become a single point of reference for managing the full lifecycle of films and TV series—linking production, post and long-term preservation while tackling the industry’s chronic data-loss risks. The company positions its…
-
The Voice of Hind Rajab
GAZA: Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Kaouther Ben Hania’s film follows Hind Rajab’s calls, Red Crescent coordination, and an ambulance denied until it’s shot.
-
The Tale of Silyan
NATURE: The Oscar-nominated Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska returns with a luminous documentary fable that extends her ongoing meditation on a pressing homeland concern: the ecological and economic troubles that drive migration.
-
Let’s talk about Riefenstahl
IDEOLOGY: Leni Riefenstahl shaped a controversial legacy, prompting reflection on whether her work’s fascist ideals still resonate in contemporary culture.
-
Filmmaker Avi Mograbi, essayist Ramón Andrés among first 2023 MajorDocs guests
The fifth #MajorDocs edition, a creative documentary film festival scheduled for October 3-7 in Mallorca, will feature #Avi Mograbi# (Tel Aviv, 1956) as the guest of honour. Mograbi, renowned as a significant non-fiction filmmaker in #Israel and the #Middle East#, will open the festival with one of his films, conduct a masterclass on the creative…
-
Diversity didn’t end social inequality
IDENTITY: For the young, queer community of Medellín, the injustices of colonial heritage consistently intertwine with the brutality of today's global liberal capitalism.
-
Ji.hlava announces first details as it sets to return to cinemas for 25th edition
The 25th Ji.hlava IDFF will take place from October 26 to 31, 2021. Now, it has announced its first details as it prepares to return to cinema with its online portal open for two weeks afterwards. In line with tradition, Ji.hlava IDFF will offer classical and experimental creative documentary cinema and themed retrospectives, plus a…