Berlinale 2024: Memories of War
Political statements are hardly foreign to a film festival’s red carpet, especially during such politically unsettled times...
Filters & Sorting
IDFA
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6th December 2023
Constructing the personal narrative
It was "a vital need to film" that prompted Soualem to commence her first documentary project Their Algeria...
Modern Times Review
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26th April 2023
The case of Dominic Ongwen
'Theatre of Violence' is an intriguing piece of filmmaking that confronts you with difficult questions about justice...
International Documentary Association
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10th April 2023
First Look 2023: The ties that bind
First Look, the Museum of the Moving Image’s (MoMI) film festival, annually introduces New York audiences to audacious experiments with form...
Modern Times Review
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9th December 2022
New tech – manufacturing the truth?
Having to wade through misinformation galore while navigating current affairs has become a quotidian reality...
Modern Times Review
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22nd November 2022
Prosecution of filmmakers spreads 'like a pandemic'
"Most unfortunately, in the past few years, cases of prosecution of filmmakers have been spreading like a pandemic"...
International Documentary Association
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16th November 2022
DOK Leipzig takes on the climate crisis
Media attention is short-lived and fickle, with incessant news waves and tweets washing over us every day...
International Documentary Association
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5th May 2022
Movies that Matter spotlights documentaries by Afghan filmmakers
Fragments of the residents’ daily lives encapsulate experience in the city that is in agony: the place where war and innocence become a part of a modus vivendi...
International Documentary Association
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9th December 2021
Bringing colonialist past and present into dialogue at DOK Leipzig
Recent years have seen a surge in documentary productions and a growing popularity of documentary film among audiences worldwide...
International Documentary Association
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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?
International Documentary Association
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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
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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...
International Documentary Association
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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
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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
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7th March 2016
Arab docs at the Berlinale: Straddling between fiction and non-fiction
History is often fragmented, patched with fictions and intricate inconsistencies...
International Documentary Association
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13th November 2015
Docs meet animation at DOK Leipzig
"We want to challenge our audience… and to surprise it," says Leena Pasanen...