Documentaries

  • A magical tour de force

    With shy, pensive, and at times monosyllabic characters, director Tinatin Gurchiani paints a compassionate and somewhat melancholic portrait of Georgia’s eclectic new generation.

  • His theatre of thought

    Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy in this film continually refers to sequences in films, but also Immanuel Kant, hardcore pornography, Wagner and caffeine-free coffee.

  • The don drapers of manipulation

    We don’t want to be fooled by commercials. But rational thinking cannot decide what our reptilian brain wants to do. This is what neuromarketing…

  • A glittering sea of darkness

    Joshua Openheimer experienced a surprising openness from mass murderers. This was the beginning of The Act of Killing.

  • WHY POVERTY?: The way the story is told

    In whose interest is it to maintain poverty? DOX looks at three films meant to make us question and discuss poverty from the new…

  • Remember how to forget

    A film about identity, memory, trauma, poetry, music, family, and death – a dive into Honig’s past

  • The rejected film

    How can you violate basic ethical standards of documentary filmmaking? Iranian–American gadfly Caveh Zahedi discovers the structures of influence in his latest doc The…

  • SURROUNDED BY SECRECY

    Making films under repressive regimes is a huge challenge. Making films about repressive regimes presents challenges of its own.

  • THE INTELLIGENT SMILE

    Selected from 350 hours of film archives, the film on Swedish politician Olof Palme shows him in several interesting political situations. I do miss…

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