All Documentaries articles – Page 4
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FeaturesIn a golden age of documentary, why are so many struggling at the UK and Ireland box office?
“Our real value add now is in terms of international sales,” revealed Oli Harbottle of Dogwoof.
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Features“My films are cut through with the need to resist the violence of our times,” Alice Diop tells Visions du Reel audience
“My aim is to find the right format for the film I want to make,” said the French filmmaker of documentaries and ‘Saint Omer’.
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Reviews‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
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Reviews‘Fragments Of Ice’: Visions du Reel Review
Home video footage of 1980s Ukraine rubs up against its present in Maria Stoianova’s family history
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Features12 documentary talents with first films at Visions du Réel
Screen profiles some of the up-and-coming directors with films at the Swiss documentary festival.
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FeaturesVisions du Reel’s Emilie Bujès on why the festival is a platform for new documentary talent
The Swiss film festival runs in Nyon from April 12-21.
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NewsMetFilm Distribution to release Embankment Films doc ‘Strike: An Uncivil War’ in the UK
Rainmaker Content is selling international rights on the Embankment-produced feature docs ‘Strike: An Uncivil War’ and ‘Dwarf Strory’.
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NewsHot Docs unveils 2024 programme, including world premieres of ‘Red Fever’, ‘American Cats’
Festival selects 168 documentaries including 51 world premieres.
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NewsHot Docs artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy steps down
Heather Haynes will take over for 2024 edition.
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Features“I’m scared as hell of ageing”: the story behind making ‘Vika!’, about the 84-year old DJ still partying hard
Poland’s Agnieszka Zwiefka has combined observational documentary with scripted musical scenes for the feature doc ‘Vika!’
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NewsBelfast housing estate documentary ‘The Flats’ takes CPH:DOX 2024 main prize
Recognition for UK co-productions including ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’.
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NewsUkrainian school documentary ‘Timestamp’ leads CPH:DOX industry winners
Tanzania-UK co-production ‘Children Of Honey’ also takes a prize.
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NewsAlex Gibney talks upcoming Elon Musk, George Orwell and David Chase docs
Gibney says he “keeps reaching out” to Musk to be involved, but without success so far.
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FeaturesWhy are award-winning Indian documentaries struggling to find audiences at home?
While Indian documentaries are riding high at international festivals, at home filmmakers are struggling to connect them to cinemagoers.
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NewsHaitian filmmaker Raoul Peck and Canadian DoP Iris Ng to be honoured at Hot Docs
The Canadian documentary festival has also added a new strand to the programme.
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NewsVisions du Réel unveils 2024 line-up with 88 world premieres
The international competition includes films from Sofie Benoot, Adrián Orr and Nicole Vögele.
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News“You’re always on time. You’re always polite”: Why Ema Ryan Yamazaki directed ‘The Making Of A Japanese’
The Japanese doc director turned her camera on a Japanese elementary school,
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NewsFilipino doc director Ramona S Diaz on why she will release ‘And So It Begins’ herself at home
Diaz has tangled with the ruling Marcos family before, with the former first lady trying to prevent the release of ‘Imedia’ in 2003.
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NewsFamily portraits ‘My Stolen Planet’, ’Forest’ win main awards at Thessaloniki doc festival
The festival took place against the backdrop of homophobic protests against same-sex marriage, recently legalised in Greece.
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Reviews‘Tack’: Thessaloniki Review
This sensitive documentary follows two Greek female sailors as they seek justice for institutional sexual abuse