Stories of tragic loves, ghosts, mythological beings, foundational myths, supernatural facts, folk tales. You may or may not believe, but traveling to these destinations has a lot to do with it. “They…
Casino and roulette documentaries We know that the real roulette wheelers not only play for play but we are interested to know a little more about what goes behind all these roulette…
Dear friends! We, the team of ArtDocFest – festival for Russian-spoken creative documentaries – want to bring to your attention the letter of Russian filmmakers sent in response to a letter and…
New Chinese Documentary challenges the power over what will be known about the past. Its focus is on the repressed history of individuals. History and memory haunt us. There is no way to escape,…
Interactive iPad documentary:ALMA – A TALE OF VIOLENCEDirector Miguel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère,France, 2012, 60 mins. Alma is a very poignant web documentary on the confession by a Guatemalan woman who escaped…
From Spanish Documentary Film during the Transition to the Documentary Panorama. In addition to the Official Selections, Documenta Madrid presents in its tenth edition two cycles specifically dedicated to the Spanish production…
Shouldn’t a man consider himself very lucky when, stepping into his hotel room after midnight, sitting down at his desk, thinking about the past 16 hours, he can honestly say:”it has been…
Today has been quite uneventful. I had earmarked the morning to catch up with some office work and to deal with some stuff from my former (producer-)life that I had to get…
Alan Berliner is a master of creative documentary and experimental film. Özge Calafato met him in the midst of the Turkish uprising, which shocked him and made him challenge his role as a filmmaker.…
The Russian documentary film tradition is acknowledged by documentary professionals all aver the world. Russian docs are often selected for festivals outside Russia. Russian filmmakers such as Victor Kossakovsky, Vitaly Mansky and…