International Documentary Association • 19th July 2024

DocuMentality's 'The Price of Passion' Reports Doc Filmmakers' Mental Health

Documentary filmmaking is hardly a viable career for many...

Spheres / Daniel Zimmermann

Spheres / NOISE FILM & TV • 3rd July 2024

Interview with Spheres director Daniel Zimmermann

"The camera's constant rotation creates an enduring, almost suction-like effect that gently takes the audience on a journey..."

IDFA • 11th June 2024

Docs for Sale previews 2024-2025 catalogue with 17 exciting titles

Docs for Sale, IDFA’s premier market and distribution incubator for creative documentary films, steps into a new season...

International Documentary Association • 13th May 2024

Berlinale 2024: Memories of War

Political statements are hardly foreign to a film festival’s red carpet, especially during such politically unsettled times...

Modern Times Review • 7th May 2024

Children's nightmares of war

"Nightmares are one of the most persistent symptoms of trauma," posits Jon-Håkon Schultz, a Norwegian educational psychologist and researcher...

Okurimono / Laurence Lévesque

Okurimono / NOISE FILM & TV • 15th April 2024

Okurimono - An interview with director Laurence Lévesque

"The landscapes represent intimate memories of Noriko's childhood, but they are also bearers of history, timeless witnesses to the horrors of the past..."

Fragments of Ice / Maria Stoianova

Fragments of Ice / NOISE FILM & TV • 11th April 2024

Fragments of Ice - An interview with director Maria Stoianova

"When making the film, I imagined the video fragments as 'fragments of ice': they melted when getting a new impulse, a rethinking..."

Modern Times Review • 11th April 2024

Widowhood in India as farmers' suicides soar

"Something is terribly wrong in the countryside," said Former Chairman of the National Commission of Farmers...

True Story • 4th April 2024

A conversation with director Maksym Melnyk

"I wasn’t a fly on the wall in this film, but it was also important for me not to be an elephant in a porcelain shop..."

Cineuropa • 25th March 2024

Review: The Black Garden

War is never glorious, even when rendered into a piece of filmmaking...

Cineuropa • 20th March 2024

Review: The Flats

Singling out Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Decalogue as a particular cinematic reference...

International Documentary Association • 14th March 2024

“Transcending Mere Political Analysis”: Midi Z Discusses The Clinic

Known for lensing candid portrayals of people often living on the margins of society...

Cineuropa • 15th February 2024

The NFF takes steps to strengthen the competitive position of Dutch features

In a freshly published policy plan for the period 2025-2028, the Netherlands Film Fund...

Cineuropa • 31st January 2024

Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha’s My Favourite Cake to premiere at the Berlinale

The Iranian writing-directing duo’s third feature-length collaboration...

Cineuropa • 24th January 2024

The Netherlands Film Fund furthers efforts to encourage more sustainable productions

Achieving sustainability in the audiovisual sector has been an uphill battle across Europe...

IDFA • 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...

IDFA • 23rd November 2023

Tatiana Huezo on the fleetingness of youth in The Echo

Huezo's camera observes the moments of delight that pierce through the remote village of Mexico, as echoes of hardship continue to reverberate in silence...

Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International • 4th October 2023

A Niche for Creativity

In this interview, Thierry Garrel, who stood at the foundation of ARTE, discusses the role of documentary festivals in film curation and programming...

Modern Times Review • 30th July 2023

Chronicling women of the YPJ

A woman who is no longer willing to become a military achievement...

True Story • 28th May 2023

A conversation with director Michael Borodin

'100% cotton' is a sign of quality—it is natural, eco-friendly and comfortable. But what is behind this label can be disconcerting...