Commentary
Essays, commentaries and editorials on contemporary political questions (conflicts/peace, ecology/thinking, control/surveillance).
In the absence of critical investigation by mass media, three young men challenged the official version of the American 9/11 events. Several other documentaries…
Today an explosion of huge megacities is posing serious local and global challenges: equality, pollution, sustainability, climate, space and infrastructure. The documentary series Cities…
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…
The young festival team at Jihlava offered us an insight into what the Czech past and reconstructions of their inheritances have to offer today.…
The people who described the concentration camps during the second world war were referred to as “screamers”. This referred to the fact that they…
Three films in Cannes have remembrance in common: One about a dead wife, one about a dead husband and one about numerous deaths in…
What kind of documentaries are produced in the Middle-East? We look into "A History of Israeli Cinema", the latest of the film festivals held…
On British television, documentary commissioning editors are encouraging new documentary formats to balance the demand for high ratings with public service obligations.
