Tue Steen Müller

“With love from the front” (eng. My Dear Theo) on CPH:DOX 2025 This is a text that I took from the FB of Alisa Kovalenko, if you go to that you will also notice the many people Alisa is thanking…

passed away the other day, 70 years old. A brilliant documentary director who expanded the Danish way of storytelling in that genre through his focus on the essayistic approach. Poetic reflections on human life, philosophical, superb in their visual interpretation…

This is a copy-paste of an article in FNE Daily, written by Alexander Gabelia: VILNIUS: Lithuanian director/writer/producer Arūnas Matelis is currently in production with his new long documentary G.H.1 / G.V.1, which he calls “a very, very challenging film”. G.H.1 investigates the bond…

Here are the five films that were nominated to compete for the Documentary Oscar: Black Box Diaries – Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin No Other Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham Porcelain War…

Two documentary film festivals, different in orientation, both with selections of high quality films, many categories, I will with this text focus on some titles from the main competition category of FIPADOC, that starts tomorrow in Biarritz and from ArtDocFest…

Three generations. The protagonist, teenager Roosi, her mum and dad, divorced – and the one who writes this review, a senior citizen and a film blogger who hopes for a better world and believes in change coming from young ones…

“The Robert-Prisen (Robert Award) is an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars, British BAFTAs for films, Australian AACTA Awards or French César.[1] The award—voted only by academy members—is an acknowledgment by Danish industry…

Iikka Vehkalahti is dead, and I am writing through tears. It’s not so easy, makes the screen blurry as are my thoughts. I was a little afraid of him before I got to know him, he was so big and…

Fifteen films will advance in the documentary feature film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category. Members of the documentary branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

… which was in 1992 in Nepal at Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, that Wanda Rutkiewicz wished to “conquer”, a word she hated as you can read below. The legendary Polish mountaineer, who had “taken” K2 and reached the…

(366 sider. Gennemillustreret. Omfattende noteapparat. Litteraturliste. Navneregister. Filmografier. Forlaget Politisk Revy. 299 kr.) Se, det er en rigtig filmbog! En bedrift simpelthen, researchet og forfattet over en årrække af Ulla Hjorth Nielsen, som skriver om “det mest forgrenede og betydningsfulde…

European FilmEmilia Pérez [+] – Jacques Audiard (France) European DocumentaryNo Other Land [+] – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal (Palestine/Norway) European Animated Feature Film Flow [+] – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia/France/Belgium) (PHOTO) European Short Film – Prix VimeoThe Man Who…

I have copy-pasted from Modern Times Review this intro to a festival in my neighboring country Norway – a festival that starts today and lasts until November 17 with an impressive collection of films (alas!) that deals with conflicts and…

Impressions from five days in Budapest for the Verzio FF. I already – the post before this – wrote about a day with Diana Groó and Judit Hoffmann, unforgettable, so much looking forward to the film “Dear Helena” with Diana…

I have known Diana Groó for 25 years. We met in Denmark at the European Film College in Ebeltoft for a film event. Since then we have met in different places and she was the one, who introduced me in…

5 out of 12 films were selected for me and colleague members of the European Film Academy. I have watched them all and am still thinking, where to put my vote. And as a good schoolboy I had done my…

I was not in Leipzig for the festival but followed it and have written several texts about films and events. Of course having an eye on what happened for good film friends. One of them Daniel Abma with whom I…

Access… is what Slovak director and cameraman Marek Šulík was given to film Zuzana Čaputová during the five years she was president of Slovakia, from 2019 till 2024. An access – with limitations of course – that included Šulík was…

Tomasz Wolski was a child when Jaruzelski introduced Martial Law in December 1981. I am from 1947 so I followed from a neighboring country what happened. From a distance. With Jaruzelski as the bad guy and Lech Walesa the good…

Serbian Zeljko Mirkovic introduces himself like this: “Dr. Zeljko Mirkovic is an award-winning film and TV director, educator, and lecturer with more than 20-years’ experience writing, producing, and directing diverse documentaries.  He is a creative and innovative developer of feature…

It´s the 21st Verzio Film Festival and it takes place in Budapest November 6-13. A festival with a selection of documentaries that are sectioned into competitions for national and international films as well as “Doc Future Competition”, where new talents…

Today the full program of the classic documentary film festival in Leipzig was announced. The 67th edition of the festival. 209 films and XR works from 55 countries. An international festival that is also famous for having both documentaries and…