A report from the 50th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) sees fact and fiction in the balance.
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The London-based Open City Documentary Festival (OCDF) works towards decentring perspectives with a carefully curated programme. Diligently guiding us through the vast landscape of non-fiction art, the showcased works push boundaries of
Keep ReadingImmortal (Estonia, 60 min.) Dir. Ksenia Okhapkina Programme: The Changing Face of Europe Set in an industrial town of post-Soviet Russia, Immortal is glued together by a hypnotic stream of moving train units and
Keep ReadingA Pleasure, Comrades! (Portugal, 106 min.) Dir. José Filipe Costa Program: The Changing Face of Europe In 1975, in the wake of the Carnation Revolution overthrowing Portugal’s dictatorship, the southern European country
Keep ReadingRes Creata – Humans and Other Animals (Italy, 80 min.) Dir. Alessandro Cattaneo Program: The Changing Face of Europe Absolutely unique, Res Creata is a scientific and philosophical marvel asking us to ponder the
Keep ReadingReunited (Denmark, 78 min.) Dir. Mira Jargil Program: The Changing Face of Europe The opening of Reunited is bleak. Just moments earlier, Rana was rescued from a lifeboat on the Mediterranean sea. In the
Keep ReadingAlways Amber (Sweden, 75 min.) Dir. Hannah Reinikainen Bergeman & Lia Hietala Program: The Changing Face of Europe Enhanced Snapchat portraits, Instagram profiles and grainy selfie-videos of the titular protagonist Amber move
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A selection of three works, programmed in the New Frontier and Shorts section of Sundance 2020 brings POV’s reporting on the festival to a close. It showcases the innovative storytelling of three
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Powerful forces are at work in this new batch of documentaries, seen and reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival. Backward-looking binaries are dismantled, where art, hope and optimism remain triumphant in the
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Since you realized, halfway through the festival, that no amount of coffee will ever be enough to repay your amassed sleep debt, you hope that the next doc might jolt you back
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