All Documentaries articles – Page 12
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FeaturesJoe Houlberg Silva explains how his debut feature doc ‘Ozogoche’ took flight
’Ozogoche’, a world premiere at IDFA, is about a species of sandpiper bird and the community who live around their lake.
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News“We made this film to be shown,” says Palestinian director of IDFA competition title ‘Life Is Beautiful’
“Standing here and talking about my film is the only way I can feel I am doing something,” said Mohamed Jabaly.
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NewsPeter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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NewsGrierson Trust investigating anti-Jewish racism incident at British Documentary Awards
Documentary organisation received several reports of anti-Jewish racism by an individual at its awards
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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NewsHot Docs names new artistic director
Canadian producer Hussain Currimbhoy has been appointed, effective immediately
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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FeaturesIDFA’s industry head talks making a living from docs, the market’s reality check and standing out in the autumn calendar
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen laments the decrease in broadcaster engagement with authored docs.
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NewsGrierson British Documentary Awards honour ‘All That Breathes’, ‘Moonage Daydream’
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes took home the best cinema documentary prize
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is bringing a “weightless, ephemeral digital experience’ to a physical festival audience
DocLab’s Casper Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is ’Phenomenal Fiction’.
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NewsAutlook boards Wes Anderson-backed doc ‘Uncropped’ about photographer James Hamilton (exclusive)
Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America
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NewsUkrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko readies pair of war themed documentaries (exclusive)
Kyiv-based Kovalenko already has two films playing at IDFA film, ’Girl Away From Home’ and ’We Will Not Fade Away’
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NewsNew Docs takes on world sales for IDFA and Ji.hlava documentary ‘Atirkül In The Land Of Real Men’ (exclusive)
Janyl Jusupjan’s documentary focuses on a young woman getting involved in the male-dominated horseback sport Buzkashi.
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Features“This is a mirror of the world”: IDFA director Orwa Nyrabia on reflecting pressing global issues at the festival
Documentary festival opens with Olga Chernykh’s personal portrait of the Ukraine-Russia conflict ’A Picture To Remember’
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Features15 documentaries to watch this awards season
As part of Screen International’s guide to the films to watch this awards season, we round up some of the key documentary contenders.
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News‘Photophobia’, 'Ship' lead 2023 Ji.hlava film festival winners
Croatian documentary Ship from Elvis Lenić won the Opus Bonum award, the festival’s top prize.
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NewsNewly-appointed Doclisboa director Paula Astorga shares her vision for Lisbon festival (exclusive)
Astorga takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro.
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NewsDoclisboa unveils 2023 winners as artistic director Miguel Ribeiro confirms departure
Sofía Peypoch won international film competition for her doc ’Earth Altars’ (’La Tierra Los Altares’).
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NewsDirector Paula Albuquerque on laying bare colonialism through her Doclisboa ‘glitch art’ documentary
Experimental, archive-based documentary edits footage from a Dutch religious short shot in Suriname in the 1950s.