All Documentaries articles – Page 10
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NewsThessaloniki doc festival responds to weekend attack on trans people with a “loud and clear message of tolerance”
The festival has introduced the Citizen Queer programme this year to celebrate Greece’s recent legalisation same-sex marriage.
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FeaturesThessaloniki’s doc festival’s Orestis Andreadakis on this month’s event
There are fils celebraing 50 years of modern Greek democracy and a new Citizen Queer programme.
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News‘Birdman’ sound designer Martin Hernandez details upcoming Netflix project ‘The Master Of Monarchs’
The documentary series follows an environmental activist murdered in 2020 for standing up to organised crime groups.
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News‘Johatsu – Into Thin Air’: first trailer for Thessaloniki Docs, CPH:DOX title (exclusive)
CAT&Docs launched sales on the film in Berlin.
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FeaturesWhy ‘Four Daughters’ director chose to blend documentary and fiction
Oscar-nominated for best documentary feature, Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters is based on a “spectacular and shocking” case of two missing girls. The Tunisian filmmaker talks about taking inspiration from fiction for her latest true-life story.
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ReviewsEat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat: Dublin Review
Ireland’s Cheer team defies the odds to make it to the Orlando ‘worlds’
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FeaturesHow ‘To Kill A Tiger’ director shone a light on India’s gender violence
Nisha Pahuja set out to make a film about male consciousness-raising on gender issues in India, then found herself in the middle of a case of child rape. She tells Screen how the victim’s courageous family inspired her to tell their story in To Kill A Tiger.
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Reviews‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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FeaturesThe personal cost of making ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’
Standing against Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni required great sacrifice from musician/politician Bobi Wine and his family. Screen talks to Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp, directors of Bobi Wine: The People’s President about documenting their story.
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NewsAlexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, subject of ‘Navalny’ doc, dies in prison
Navalny was the subject of the 2023 Oscar & Bafta best documentary winner.
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NewsThe Party boards Belfast-set documentary ‘The Flats’ ahead of CPH: DOX premiere (exclusive)
Alessandra Celesia directs the film about a man looking back on his youth growing up during the Troubles.
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NewsCPH:DOX unveils competitions, adds human rights award
New:Vision titles include Germany-Israel-Palestine co-production ‘Silent Night’.
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Reviews‘Will & Harper’: Sundance Review
Will Ferrell and his best friend Harper take a cross-country road trip after her transition
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Reviews‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat’: Sundance Review
Outstanding documentary ties the democratic movement in Africa in the 1960s with Black US musicians used by the CIA as pawns in the Cold War
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Reviews‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’: Sundance Review
Increasingly moving documentary is a dialogue with the late actor and disability advocate
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Reviews‘Love Machina’: Sundance Review
An American couple attempts to cheat death through artificial intelligence in this eye-opening doc
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Reviews‘Ibelin’: Sundance Review
Norwegian documentary uncovers the full extent of a hardcore gamer’s online life after his untimely death
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FeaturesThe risky journey behind North Korea documentary ‘Beyond Utopia’
Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia charts two attempts at defection from North Korea and the underground network that provides vital help.
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FeaturesMaite Alberdi on ‘The Eternal Memory’: “Alzheimer’s is a context, but this is a love story”
Shot over five years, Oscar-shortlisted ’The Eternal Memory’ depicts a prominent Chilean TV journalist’s battle with dementia. But this is really a story about the power of love, filmmaker Maite Alberdi tells Screen
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FeaturesHow the directors of documentary ‘The Mission’ navigated a tragic missionary’s tale
Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine weren’t the only filmmakers drawn to the story of John Chau, the young American missionary whose death on a remote Indian island made headlines in 2018. But the possibility of competition didn’t outweigh the possibilities that the husband-and-wife directors of The Mission thought they could ...