All Documentaries articles – Page 10
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FeaturesWhy are award-winning Indian documentaries struggling to find audiences at home?
While Indian documentaries are riding high at international festivals, at home filmmakers are struggling to connect them to cinemagoers.
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NewsHaitian filmmaker Raoul Peck and Canadian DoP Iris Ng to be honoured at Hot Docs
The Canadian documentary festival has also added a new strand to the programme.
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NewsVisions du Réel unveils 2024 line-up with 88 world premieres
The international competition includes films from Sofie Benoot, Adrián Orr and Nicole Vögele.
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News“You’re always on time. You’re always polite”: Why Ema Ryan Yamazaki directed ‘The Making Of A Japanese’
The Japanese doc director turned her camera on a Japanese elementary school,
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NewsFilipino doc director Ramona S Diaz on why she will release ‘And So It Begins’ herself at home
Diaz has tangled with the ruling Marcos family before, with the former first lady trying to prevent the release of ‘Imedia’ in 2003.
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NewsFamily portraits ‘My Stolen Planet’, ’Forest’ win main awards at Thessaloniki doc festival
The festival took place against the backdrop of homophobic protests against same-sex marriage, recently legalised in Greece.
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Reviews‘Tack’: Thessaloniki Review
This sensitive documentary follows two Greek female sailors as they seek justice for institutional sexual abuse
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FeaturesWhy being compact and friendly works for Agora, the industry programme of Thessaloniki Docs
The focus is on introducing projects from southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region to the international industry.
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FeaturesHow CPH:DOX is working to bring a culture of documentary viewing to all Danish audiences
“We are not a Copenhagen event for the whole country; we are co-creating a festival with the municipalities.”
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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.