Visions du réel
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Visions du Réel opens call for 2022 edition
Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon has officially opened their call (2 September 2021) for submissions for the 2022 festival edition—its 53rd. The long-running, Swiss film festival has established formal and aesthetic choices through personal and singular expressions and descriptions of past, present, and future, freely interpreting the very definition of non-fiction filmmaking. If…
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The mystery of mushrooms
ECOLOGY: When the world seems to be falling apart, can the answers humanity need reside in the mushroom?
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The world of tomorrow
CONTROL: A dystopic visual essay reflecting on the filmmaker’s children’s future in a technological world.
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Doc Alliance festivals announces 2021 selections, including new short film award
Doc Alliance, the network of 7 of the most influential European documentary film festivals (CPH:DOX, #Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, #FIDMarseille, Ji.hlava IDFF, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Visions du Réel) has announced its selection for 2021. Each of the alliance festivals has chosen one feature-length film and, for the first time this year, one short (up to…
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Cannes Docs – Marché du Film Guide: Doc Talks 2021
As part of the online Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, Cannes Docs brings its selection of screenings and events to the hybrid event, and 6 – 15 July, 2021. Aside from the variety of workshops, industry events, screenings, as well as its culminating event, Doc Day, Cannes Docs has also curated 5 expert-led…
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International filmmaking community calls for immediate release of Myanmar filmmaker Ma Aient
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk and its founding institutions, the European Film Academy (EFA), #IDFA and #IFFR, and other festivals and film institutions, have called on Myanmar authorities to release filmmaker Ma Aeint from custody. As she was leaving her house on 5 June, Ma Aeint was detained. She is now being held…
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The new tendencies of Taiwanese documentary
TAIWAN: A creative mixture of documentary, animation, and experimental approaches, offers a spectrum of contemporary Taiwan’s lived realities.
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Youth, migration, and documentary decolonisation
AFRICAN FILM: Don Edkins and Tiny Mugwe discuss the Generation Africa project.
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Filtering the truth of war through the lens of cinema
HISTORY: Ever since they met in 1911, the moving image and war have had a contentious relationship