interviews

Interviews with filmmakers and other politically interesting people.

  • NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY: Truth as an inspiration

    Some filmmakers working with the feature documentary genre want to reconnect us with History itself, enticing audiences to actively engage with the ever-changing, politically…

  • Corporate abuse

    "Crude" tells its story with devastating understatement, wrapping the central plot of corporate negligence. But justice is not swift when Big Oil is your…

  • Alan Parker: The British director Alan Parker is one of the most versatile filmmakers of our time. Truls Lie of *Le Monde diplomatique* met…

  • The Red Chapel

    Brügger and his travel companions deliver a ballsy theatrical spectacle in a regime of terror. In the opening scene of his latest documentary, "The…

  • A living crawling human installation

    Timoner wins the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with a haunting depiction of the extremities of our online existence.

  • Where pleasure meets pain

    Two films explore the boundaries between art and porn, sexual spectacle and exploitation.

  • TORONTO 2009: Who Created Whom?

    Remembering the past is what inspires reappropriation. With both their films, Backès and Bense give us work that has reproduced the essence of one…

  • KARLOVY VARY 2009: A Diary of Her Own

    In July, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s annual presentation of up-coming Eastern European documentaries showcased a lexicon of lifestyles – works-in-progress.

  • SAN FRANCISCO 2009: Social justice as a Jewish value

    The films selected for, and the people invited to SFJFF make emotions run high in the Jewish community and amongst festivals sponsors.

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