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  • Festival Report: IDFA Doclab 2022

    As one of the continent’s longest-running programmes exploring new media and interactivity, #IDFA Doclab has steadily grown in size and scope, parallel to much…

  • Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»

    IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.

  • «We, the Revolution»

    RETROSPECTIVE: Porto/Post/Doc offers a thematic retrospection on the idea of «revolution».

  • Marked By Slowness

    DOCLISBOA: This year’s edition of the Portuguese documentary film festival once again gave emerging film professionals from all over Europe the opportunity to showcase…

  • The road to war

    UKRAINE: Two films screening at Norway's Movies on War Film Festival look at the lead-up to the February 24th Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking

    ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava's IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in…

  • Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting

    CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s…

  • We must activate our voices for Iran!

    The Norwegian-Iranian filmmaker #Ali Parandian# is the man behind the petition «The Nordic Film Community stand with protesters in Iran». The petition has so…

  • The cultural identity of the displaced

    IDENTITY: In two Nordisk Panorama-screened films, a growing number of second-generation immigrants express how they do not feel truly included in their European birth…

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