All Documentaries articles – Page 17
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Reviews‘Taamaden’: IDFA Review
Seydou Cisse’s economic migrants take a dangerous route from Mali to Valencia
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Reviews‘Day After….’: IDFA Review
Hop on the Rocket paddle-steamer from Dhaka to Khulna in Kamar Ahmad Simon’s seductive documentary
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Reviews‘Mr Landsbergis’: IDFA Review
Sergei Loznitsa compiles an exhaustive account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the USSR
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Features“We cannot have another year like this,” say doc sales agents at IDFA
Cautious distributors, slimmed-down festivals and dwindling funders are cause for concern.
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FeaturesOeke Hoogendijk explains how she convinced her agoraphobic mother to feature in ‘Housewitz’
The Dutch documentary director is debuting two very different films at IDFA.
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Reviews‘One Take Grace’: IDFA Review
Intimate, engaging portrait of South African actor-domestic worker Mothiba Grace Bapela
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Reviews‘Four Journeys’: IDFA Review (opening film)
Louis Hothothot turns the lens on his own childhood in this probingly autobiographical film
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FeaturesHow are producers making documentaries with real impact without preaching and turning off audiences?
Producers need to balance supporting a filmmaker’s vision while raising funding and finding an audience.
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FeaturesLouis Hothothot on how IDFA opening film ‘Four Journeys’ brought him back to his family
The film tells the story off how China-born Hothothot was an illicit second child during China’s one-child era.
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NewsOrwa Nyrabia on the direction in which he is steering International Film Festival Amsterdam
The IDFA festival director talks projects, backers and the tyranny of the 90-minute film-making trope.
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NewsIDFA’s Bertha Fund to significantly increase support for doc features (exclusive)
The Bertha Fund supports filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Oceania region.
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Reviews‘Bring Down The Walls’: Belfast Review
The ills of the US criminal justice system inspire this audacious mix of commentary and house music
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Reviews‘Mother Lode’: Thessaloniki Review
A young father tries to make his fortune in the gold mines of the Andes in this striking documentary-infused drama
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NewsIDFA unveils main competition line-up; to open with Louis Hothothot’s ‘Four Journeys’
IDFA is taking place as a physical event in the Netherlands from November 17-28.
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News‘918 Days’, ‘The Safest Place In The World’ win top prizes at Doclisboa
‘918 Days’ is about the time spent itn prison by Basaque director Arantza Santeseban.
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FeaturesEgyptian filmmaker Sara Shazli on how Cairo lockdown inspired doc ‘Back Home’
Debut feature documentary world premiered in El Gouna Film Festival.
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Reviews‘The Safest Place In The World’: Doclisboa Review
Brazil’s 2015 Mariana dam disaster is eulogised through the perspective of one scarred local
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Reviews‘You Are Ceausescu To Me’: Doclisboa Review
A group of young people gather to play the infamous Romanian dictator in Sebastian Mihailescu’s experimental documentary
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Features“It’s a place for people to share ideas and experiences,” say Doclisboa’s three co-heads
The festival is running from October 21 to 31
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Reviews‘Citizen Ashe’: Review
How Wimbledon’s first Black champion navigated his life and discreet form of activism off the courts