What is the role of a documentary filmmaker in a country that has been largely devoid of images of itself on the big screen?

'Barzaj' is a poetic account of a group of Moroccan boys who find shelter in Harbour Melilla..

North Korea, one of the world’s most heavily sanctioned nations...

When one thinks of a festival’s screening venues, a prison is not an immediate choice...

Is there any link between the production of images and our experience of war?

The 2018 DOK Leipzig festival held a homage to the work of Werner Herzog, who perhaps needs no introduction...

"There are the forgotten films. There are the lost films, the reels of which are found years later"...

Laila Haidari, a roundly built Afghan woman in her thirties, puts on her ballerina shoes and heads under the notorious Pul-e Sukhta Bridge...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, rethinking the socialist past seemed like an important chore...

"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"...

The film chronicles the story of a woman who participated in the establishment of the state of Iraq...

IDFA has grown from a small gathering of documentary enthusiasts to the world's largest documentary film festival...

"Everybody was involved in the process. It is their film. These stories belong to all of them"...

History is often fragmented, patched with fictions and intricate inconsistencies...

Peter Liechti confesses that filmmaking for him is a process to make discoveries, a way to understand his life...

"We want to challenge our audience… and to surprise it," says Leena Pasanen...

Here, the first right is the right to roam...

'Born in the USSR' is more than a film about life in the post-Soviet era. It is even more than a mere collection of biographies...