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...

International Documentary Association • 13th November 2015

Docs Meet Animation at DOK Leipzig

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

Filmkommentaren • 27th June 2013

Nicolas Philibert: Every Little Thing

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