All Documentaries articles – Page 8
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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 ...
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FeaturesHow Kevin Macdonald exposes high fashion and cancel culture in ‘High & Low: John Galliano’
Director Kevin Macdonald on how his documentary High & Low: John Galliano, about the disgraced fashion icon, evolved into the exploration of a psychological mystery.
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NewsBerlinale Forum first titles include Lola Arias, Vinothraj PS films
Argentinian director Lola Arias will world premiere her musical documentary Reas about trans people in prison.
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Features‘Songs Of Earth’ director on capturing Norway’s natural wonders and exploring relationship with her father
Norwegian filmmaker Margreth Olin tells Screen about a year walking with her father for personal documentary Songs Of Earth.
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FeaturesOscars 2024: What are the leading international documentary contenders?
Screen celebrates a rich crop of contenders this year from all corners of the globe.
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FeaturesThe UK snowboarder turned Oscar-winning Grain Media founder focuses on telling small stories about big issues
Director and producer Orlando von Einsiedel’s credits include ’Virunga’ and ’The White Helmets’.
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FeaturesErige Sehiri reveals details of ‘Marie & Jolie’, her anticipated follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’
“Visibility allows you to be heard more and sooner for the next film, but funding is just as difficult,” says the Tunisian director.
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Reviews‘DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans’: Review
Rotterdam’s state-of-the-art statement by Sonia Herman Dolz is an irrestible advert for an edifice
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News‘20 Days In Mariupol’ scoops IDFA audience award
Mstyslav Chernov’s unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine wins the public vote at the documentary festival