When the silent war continues
WAR: We do not only find bones. We find stories. Lives once lived. Keeping an emotional distance is not always easy.
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The means to gaze into the fire
WAR: Confronting Serbia’s wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.
War in Ukraine – as experienced by those living through it
UKRAINE: A glimpse of the war as experienced by Ukrainians every day since Russian forces invaded on February 24, 2022.
To Hear Children Weeping in a Photograph
PHOTOGRAPHY: The journalistic war photos that we have, unfortunately, seen so frequently in recent months are primarily meant to inform us about the conflict. However, they often strive to take on a subjective character and become political actors. Photographs of suffering children play a special role in this transformation. What role?
Woman as a Victim of the Afghan System
AFGHANISTAN: In 2021, Doclisboa dedicated one of its programme blocks to the topic of women in the patriarchal society of Afghanistan. While the two films screened, Orchestra from the Land of Silence (2020) and Oh Dear Sara (2021), differ in many ways, their chilling message takes on a particularly intense dimension given the current situation in the Middle East.
The soldiers who refused to die
CONFLICT: A Soviet soldier of Tatar descent captured by the Nazis during WWII leads to a story of an army caught between dictators.
A 200-year-old tale of the now
FAMILY: A timeless tale of growing up in a land of both magic and hatred.
Film editing – classical or not?
Editorial: After 40 years as film editor, Niels Pagh Andersen now has written an inspiring book combined with video interviews with 8 filmmakers. What did he learn on this long voyage?