Modern Times Review • 26th November 2020 The death of democracy by a thousand cuts When the president himself becomes the political arena, politics turns into a carousel of absurdity...
Modern Times Review • 10th November 2020 What is left after the dust settles? Dutch documentary 'Once the Dust Settles' revisits cities devastated by disasters...
Modern Times Review • 23rd June 2020 'All bodies are good bodies!' Scandinavian doc makes a bid to renegotiate fatness In a parade of undesirable questions, 'Do you think I’m fat?' is often at the forefront...
International Documentary Association • 7th May 2020 Documentary Association of Europe, Post-Launch: A Conversation with Founder Brigid O'Shea As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, transforming the documentary industry as we know it...
Modern Times Review • 27th April 2020 Can we live together? The documentary 'The Sea Between Us' follows two women as they navigate their lives in Beirut...
International Documentary Association • 5th March 2020 From Singapore with Love: Tan Pin Pin What is the role of a documentary filmmaker in a country that has been largely devoid of images of itself on the big screen?
Modern Times Review • 13th November 2019 In Limbo, Caught Between Two Worlds 'Barzaj' is a poetic account of a group of Moroccan boys who find shelter in Harbour Melilla...
Modern Times Review • 4th November 2019 North Korea is ‘Biggest Illegal Job Agency in the World’ North Korea, one of the world’s most heavily sanctioned nations...
International Documentary Association • 28th October 2019 Docs Behind Bars: DOK Leipzig's Collaboration with Juvenile Inmates When one thinks of a festival’s screening venues, a prison is not an immediate choice...
Modern Times Review • 3rd August 2019 Colombia’s 'Obsession' with Images of Dead Guerrilla Fighters Is there any link between the production of images and our experience of war?
Modern Times Review • 10th February 2019 Werner Herzog: 'Facts Do Not Constitute the Truth' The 2018 DOK Leipzig festival held a homage to the work of Werner Herzog, who perhaps needs no introduction...
Modern Times Review • 4th January 2019 Theo Angelopoulos, the Filmmaker of Migration "There are the forgotten films. There are the lost films, the reels of which are found years later"...
Modern Times Review • 23rd October 2018 Laila, Mother of the Addicts Laila Haidari, a roundly built Afghan woman in her thirties, puts on her ballerina shoes and heads under the notorious Pul-e Sukhta Bridge...
Berlinale Talents • 18th February 2018 Evading the Look After the collapse of the Soviet Union, rethinking the socialist past seemed like an important chore...
International Documentary Association • 4th November 2017 Georgia on my Mind: DOK Leipzig Spotlights Cinema from the Caucasus Region "The fight is equally about liberating men; we need to liberate women and rid men of having to fill the role of dominance and authority"...
International Documentary Association • 5th June 2017 'Letters from Baghdad' Exhumes the Story of a Forgotten Heroine The film chronicles the story of a woman who participated in the establishment of the state of Iraq...
International Documentary Association • 7th November 2016 IDA Pioneer Award: Ally Derks Reflects on Three Decades at the Helm IDFA has grown from a small gathering of documentary enthusiasts to the world's largest documentary film festival...
International Documentary Association • 30th March 2016 Tales from Refugee Camp: ‘Life on the Border’ Offers a Kids-Eye View "Everybody was involved in the process. It is their film. These stories belong to all of them"...
International Documentary Association • 7th March 2016 Arab Docs at the Berlinale: Straddling between Fiction and Non-Fiction History is often fragmented, patched with fictions and intricate inconsistencies...
DOX Magazine • 16th February 2016 Experimental Composition as Cinematic Principle Peter Liechti confesses that filmmaking for him is a process to make discoveries, a way to understand his life...