Venice International Film Festival
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Russians at War
RUSSIA: An anti-war camera slips past permits and platitudes, capturing motives, injuries, and doubts while institutions debate safety, speech, and empathy.
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First Chilean documentary to feature at Venice Critics Week
After its triumph at the 2022 Cannes Docs, Malqueridas is set to be featured in the parallel section of the prestigious 80th Venice International Film Festival, participating in the 38th Settimana Internazionale della Critica de Venezia. Directed by #Tana Gilbert# and produced by #Paola Castillo#, Malqueridas portrays the daily lives of incarcerated mothers in #Chile,…
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History repeating
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today's atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.
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A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
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Portrait of an artist and activist
BIOGRAPHY: Laura Poitras' Venice winner is a poignant and captivating portrait of the American artist and activist Nan Goldin.
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Tracking truth beyond the frontiers of dawn
INTERVIEW: Gianfranco Rosi speaks to Modern Times Review on new film, Notturno.
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When society is antisocial, who calls it out?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
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IDFA, IFFR, EFA launch International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk
IDFA, #IFFR, and the #EFA have joined together to establish the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICRF) – a collective response to cases of filmmakers facing severe risk. Its creation is in response to the increasing number of filmmakers being threatened while in their field, and across the world. The announcement, which came from…
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Key festival directors to issue shared statement at 77th Venice International Film Festival opening
On the occasion of the 77th Venice International Film Festival’s opening, eight artistic directors of some of the key European film festivals will be in attendance and come with a special message. Today, 2 September 2020, the eight directors will represent the community of film festivals on the continent and around the world, and in…