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SELF-HELP: Filmmaker Audun Amundsen navigates the self-help industry’s promises, uncovering exploitation, insecurity, and the mechanics of digital persuasion.
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Sunny Side of the Doc 2025 celebrates global storytelling and expands international reach
The 36th edition of Sunny Side of the Doc, the leading international marketplace for documentary content, wrapped up yesterday after
War, fear and decolonialization
INTERVIEW: Director Johan Grimonprez has for more than 25 years worked with documentaries that addresses power, media and manipulations trough his more essayistic style. His latest film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, was screened at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival – where he garnered the audience award for best documentary
Doc Society opens 2024 call for Climate Story Fund
The #Doc Society# Climate Story Fund is reshaping the narrative of #climate change# by financially backing stories that envision a
The (white) man’s drive to conquer nature
NATURE: Philosophical musings on the nature of truth and knowledge through the lens of man’s manipulation of nature and Google’s domination of the Internet
«We are seeing a shift with the development of immersive exhibitions that use documentaries»
SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Head of Innovation & Digital Experiences Maïté Labat on the decision to separate its PiXii Festival from the immersive marketplace offerings, what commonalities were present across projects and more.
Machinima: A cinematic world through video games
FILM/TECHNOLOGY: Machinima – films made through video games – reflect and illuminate the digital worlds we are moving ever further into. As the first major film festival, the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen presented the young genre in a wide-scaled theme program.
The caricature and the role of satire in information warfare
VISUALS: Graphic satire has become a weapon. The first “caricature war” emerged between Protestants and Catholics. Caricature also revolve around Ukraine and Russia, boosting morale within one’s own ranks by ridiculing the enemy using all possible means and stereotypes, while glorifying one’s own side.
Inside Switzerland’s compulsory military service
MILITARY: Neutral for more than 500 years, Switzerland maintains a citizen army that can be mobilised in minutes.
Living in the trash
IDENTITY: From the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, an intense look into the lives of the neglected and forgotten.
An endemic state of distraction
TECHNOLOGY: How society’s increased lack of attention has been imposed on us by powerful external forces.
ISIS and the media’s means to its ends
MEDIA: Terrorism, film and propaganda: how ISIS adopted Western means of reaching an international audience.