BABI YAR. CONTEXT
Awarded at several festivals, known for his documentary as well as fiction films, Sergei Loznitsa truly became a phenomenon in... View Article
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LUMUMBA: DEATH OF A PROPHET
Raoul Peck recounts in his documentary the life of Patrice Lumumba not only biographically and historically, but also reflects the... View Article
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MARX CAN WAIT
A director from the golden age of Italian cinema along with his colleague Paolo Taviani, Marco Bellocchio (b. 1939, visited... View Article
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MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS
In January 2019, Karim Aïnouz crossed the Mediterranean Sea and went to see his father’s home country Algeria for the... View Article
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KARAOKE PARADISE
Einari Paakkanen’s second feature documentary Karaoke Paradise has only received praise since premiering at CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel. Filmed... View Article
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SUMMER OF SOUL
It was not until the 2010s that music documentaries began to receive the fame and award recognition they deserved. This... View Article
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STYLOGRAPHY OF CAMERA – THE FREESTYLE OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM
“What interests me in the cinema is abstraction” – Orson Welles The famous essay “The birth of a new avant-garde:... View Article
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RUTHLESS TIMES – SONGS OF CARE
What can’t be talked about, one must make songs about. Susanna Helke’s (The Idle Ones, 2001) new documentary film has... View Article
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TALE OF THE SLEEPING GIANTS
Tale of the Sleeping Giants is a consistent conclusion to an excellent trilogy of nature films. The elements and narrative... View Article
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THE BEATLES: GET BACK – THE ROOFTOP CONCERT
After having wasted his best years with Tolkien, Peter Jackson returned – at least indirectly – to do a work... View Article
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