Anna Dziapsh-ipa: Self-Portrait Along the Borderl
I’am in that weird situation that I have not seen the final version of a film that has its premiere tomorrow in Nyon in Switzerland in the presence of the director, a dear friend of me – and my wife…
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A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK
Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.
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Circle Women Doc Accelerator to Cannes
Copy paste from (part of) article of today’s Cineuropa, written by Vladan Petkovic: CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, an exclusive training programme for female-identifying documentary filmmakers, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of…
Khaled Jarrar: Notes on Displacement
I have written 13 blogposts about Khaled Jarrar on this site – since I met him in Ramallah and in Corfu in the Storydoc workshops organized by Greek Kostas Spiropoulos more than a decade ago. I have talked with him…
Honorary Award to Helena Třeštíková
DocsBarcelona will pay tribute to 73-year-old filmmaker Helena Třeštíková, one of Europe’s leading contemporary documentary filmmakers. Her extraordinary career of more than fifty titles will be recognised with the Honorary DocsBarcelona Award 2023, an award that celebrates “a prodigious production strongly linked…
CPH:DOX – Two Winners and One More
I watched two winners of the CPH:DOX 2023 yesterday. One at home and one in the cinema: “Mrs Hansen & the Bad Companions” by Jella Bethmann (Denmark, 90 mins.) won the Nordic Dox award, so well deserved a recognition for…
Jon Bang Carlsen: Dreaming Arizona
”Most of what follows is true, but reality and dreams are like conjoined twins, if one dies both will perish”, a text from, who else, Danish master Jon Bang Carlsen, a text he could have used already almost 50 years…
CPH:DOX Forum
I’ve seen it many times before and I love the look of it! A huge room full of documentary people, directors and producers with ideas, more or less developed film projects, clips – called trailers or teasers – meeting with…
CPH:DOX: Morning With Filmmakers
“Dialogues on Craft” is the title of four morning sessions at the CPH:DOX in the Charlottenborg Kunsthal, that is turned into a cinema during the festival. 90 minutes per session. With Wendy Mitchell as moderator. I attended the first one,…
Anne Regitze Wivel: Lige før døden
Jeg ved ikke om de studsede de to unge kvinder, som sad ved siden af mig i Cinemateket forleden aften. For der gik ikke længe efter filmens start før der kom nogle små hulk fra mig. Efterfulgt af øjne der…
Maite Alberdi: The Eternal Memory
Take a look at the top page photos, Chilean director Maite Alberdi is the one to the left. A true documentary star, whose films “Tea Time”, “The Grown-Ups” and “The Mole Agent” have been praised on this site. Her new…
Carl Olsson: Vintersaga
Jeg kan ikke lade være: Jeg bevæger mig her til morgen gennem et regnfyldt indre København, det nærmest flyder med vand i gader og stræder, for at komme frem til byens bedste biograf Grand Teatret, hvor der er pressevisning på…
Suzanne Raes: Close to Vermeer
What a wonderful painter! Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675. 35 works are known from his hand. 28 of them are now on exhibition in Amsterdam at the Rijks Museum. Until June. Said to be all sold out! It’s there after years of…
Mia Engberg: Hypermoon
First a flashback to 2013 where I saw the director’s “Belleville Baby” and wrote (on this site): “Swedish Mia Engberg’s”Belleville Baby” is beautiful. Why, because it has a feeling, an atmosphere, a personal tone (the director’s own voice and her text is excellent)…
Langballe & Konopka: Theatre of Violence
Denne tekst er taget fra Line Bilenbergs pressemeddelelse sendt ud som foromtale til én af de stærke film i CPH:DOX hovedkonkurrence. Anmeldelse af filmen følger op til premieren: Emil Langballe (tidl. Q’s Barbershop m.fl) og polske Lukasz Konopa har helt…
Masters of DOX – ZagrebDox 2023
Here is a copy-paste from the website of Croatian ZagrebD0x (March 26 – April 2), a good read: Master, expert, maestro, connoisseur, virtuoso… The ‘title’ can be given both to a craftsman and an artist, but one thing is for…
Christoffer Dreyer: Til kamp mod spekulanterne
For en tidligere Frederiksberg – borger (har haft tre forskellige adresser i bydelen) kommer navnet Blackstone ikke som nogen overraskelse. Det fine boligkompleks Hostrup Have på Rolighedsvej var den amerikanske boligspekulant ude efter for nogle år siden, men det blev…
Latvian Nat. Film Prizes: Lielais Kristaps
Sunday is the ceremony, where Latvian film is to be praised in all categories you can think of, also for camera, sound, editing etc. and what is attributed to fiction filmmaking. I have a heart for Latvian documentaries so I…
Alisa Kovalenko: We will not Fade Away
Andriy, Liza, Lera, Ruslan, Illia. Ukrainian protagonists in this heartwarming and also touching documentary from the village Stanytsia Luhanska near the frontline, which after February last year is occupied by Russia. They are teenagers, they have hope, they have dreams, they…
CPH:DOX 4 More Competition Lists
I have already posted the list of films in the main competition of CPH:DOX – here comes the other competition films listed one after the other taken from the website of the festival… NEW:VISION AWARD 16 films (shorts and…
Sarajevo Film F.:Winner of True Stories Market
Vesi Vuković won the award endowed with prize money amounting to 10,000 euros for the story “The Hero from Arena” As part of the special edition of the “Dealing with the Past” programme held in Sarajevo and online at Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba,…
CPH:DOX – DOX:Award 2023
Below you find the 13 films that have been picked for the DOX:Award 2023 competition, but first some introductory words from the festival: ”Marking the 20th anniversary of the International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, the 2023 edition will offer an…
Alisa Kovalenko: We Will not Fade Away
The following are quotes from an interview I made for the IDF in December 2021, with Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siophan, producer of the film: What do you learn about yourself from filmmaking? A: We learn to know ourselves through the…
CPH:DOX – Change Project
The second edition of CHANGE is now ready to reveal its 2022/2023 lineup. CHANGE is a collaboration between CPH:DOX, EAVE, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organisation for producers, and IMS, International Media Support, promoting journalism and documentary film to strengthen…
CPH:DOX åbner med Twice Colonized
Niklas Engstrøm, kunstnerisk direktør for CPH:DOX, siger: “‘Twice Colonized’ er en af årets absolut vigtigste dokumentarfilm. Filmen sætter fingeren på kolonialismens personlige konsekvenser og giver os et tiltrængt nyt perspektiv på vores egen historie. Den er båret af en dyb…
Doug Aubrey: Legacy of an Invisible Bullet
First some introductory words: A filmmaker, Doug Aubrey, who has had a camera in his hands since he was a teenager, gets thyroid cancer. More than five years ago. He decides to turn the camera towards himself, he who his…
Sarvnik Kaur: Against the Tide
One more documentary film from which I learned – this time about the koli fishing community in India close to Bombay. And one more documentary film where beautiful friendship is conveyed and forms the foreground of extremely difficult life conditions…
Fipadoc 2023
It’s a beautiful and elegant website to enter, the one from FipaDoc in Biarritz that introduces itself like this: “We believe in true stories. Stories from here and there, of laughter and tears, stories simple but extraordinary, brave and surprising.…
J.Leth & A. Koefoed: Music for Black Pigeons
Lee Konitz er på vej ud til en bil i Sisimiut. Han peger til højre og spørger kvinden, der følger ham ud, om der er et barn i barnevognen derhenne? Svaret er ja, faren er lige inde og hente noget.…
Mantas Kvedaravicius
In 2011 I attended a Summer School in Neringa Lithuania for film students. A film by Mantas Kvedaravicius was shown, his first. ”Stasys Baltakis, teacher at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, the film school of the Country, introduced the…
Lucie Králová: Kapr Code
Love that film! Because of its surprising, fresh approach to its protagonist Jan Kapr (1914-1988), a composer unknown to me. Until now, at least I know a lot about him, as a text in the beginning of the film indicates: “Sometimes, we…
Overture IDFA Forum 30 Years
Memories… Names, film projects, episodes. 30 years of IDFA Forum! Actually I don’t remember the first time I was there. Was it the first edition? At the time I worked at the National Film Board of Denmark and had a seat in…
Leth & Koefoed: Music for Black Pigeons
De to instruktørers tanker og motivation iflg. pressematerialet: ”Vores film udspringer af en dyb kærlighed til musik. For Jørgens vedkommende går den tilbage til 1960’erne, hvor han som jazzskribent blandt andre fulgte Lee Konitz og skrev om ham. Han var Jørgens…
dok.incubator 2023
dok.incubator is a think-tank founded in 2010 by experienced training providers to help documentary filmmaking survive the current media crisis. We strongly believe only the productions with high quality development, which can take advantage of new opportunities and master new market strategies…
Kvedaravicius & Bilobrova: Mariupol 2
This text is written by filmmaker Maxi Dejoie: On December 10th, Mariupol 2, the last documentary by Mantas Kvedaravicius and Hanna Bilobrova, rightfully received the award for best documentary of the year at the European Film Awards ceremony. After it was…
dok.incubator presentation
Always a fine experience to attend the yearly presentation of upcoming documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop that has its address in Prague due to its Czech founder and manager Andrea Prenghyova. There was a presentation at IDFA this year,…
CPH:DOX lancerer ny streamingtjeneste
I dag lanceres CPH:DOX’ nye, helårlige streamingtjeneste PARA:DOX, som byder på et udvalg af verdens bedste dokumentarfilm og et stort vidensunivers med aktuelle podcasts, talks og artikler, der sætter filmoplevelserne i perspektiv. Viden, perspektiv og store filmoplevelser. Det er omdrejningspunktet…
WHEN TREES BLOOM AT HOME AGAIN
Filma Film Fest Ukraine: WHEN TREES BLOOM AT HOME AGAIN migration as a result of military conflict After February 24 we all began to live in a new reality shaped by the full-scale war waged by Russia against Ukraine. The…
Mila Teshaieva & Marcus Lenz: When Spring Came to
The Russian massacre in Bucha in Ukraine is well known and talked about. This film documents the cleaning up after the Russians left. It’s not nice to look at. Corpses in black plastic bags being collected and transported, names spoken…
Mila Turajlic and Labudovic
Serbian director Mila Turajlic is my cinematic historian, when it comes to tell me about the history of Yugoslavia and Serbia. At IDFA she presented her two new films “Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels” and “Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the…
Lea Glob: Apolonia Apolonia
Main award at IDFA 2022 for Danish director Lea Glob for a film she has been working on for 13 years. A huge achievement to say the least. I saw the film two days ago at home online and was…
Alina Gorlova: This is Not Putin’s War
I am often asked how boycotting the protesting Russian cinema will help win the war. I found a good example to talk about it with. I came across the project of a documentary film by a Russian director, which is…
Verzio Documentary Moments
When you have been watching scenes and footage from 8 projects at the Verzio DocLab Budapest last week there are moments of what you could call authentic truth that stay in your mind. Let me mention 4 of them: A…
Verzio DocLab 2022
From tuesday till saturday 8 film projects were being worked on in Budapest as part of the Verzio Human Rights Film Festival. The filmmakers came with their material and were met by mentors and colleagues, who gave them feedback in…
Verzio Budapest 2022
The International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival starts tonight. The director Oksana Sarkisov writes the following strong welcome words with the headline “Taming the Fire” In 2022, the phrase “world on fire” is more than a metaphor or a reference to some…
European Film Awards Documentary
Click above and you will see the shortlisted documentaries for the European Film Award in the documentary category. Today the nominations for the award to be decided in Reykjavik on the 10th of December were announced: The House of…
AWARDS AT THE 26TH JI.HLAVA FF
The award for the most notable international documentary film was granted to 07:15 – Blackbird by Judith Auffray, the best Czech documentary is Kapr Code by Lucie Králová. The award for the best Central and East European documentary and for the best sound design went…
What is a documentary?
What is a documentary At my first day in Zelig Film school i met a man named Tue Steen Müller that immediately asked us to present ourselves and talk about a documentary we saw. I briefly explained what brought me…
Zelig Film Fest Bolzano/ 2
Here is how the director Kyrylo Naumko introduces his film “Dear Odesa” on the website of Zelig (): I did not notice exactly how and when life in Odesa became unbearable. But, probably, last 2 years I had a terrible…
Zelig Film Fest Bolzano
Zelig Film Fest Bolzano 10 films, 28 graduates… 5 films were shown last night, 5 will hit the screen tonight. I am not here to review the films but I will not refrain from saying that the general quality is…
Awards of the 10th Aegean Docs
The Best Foreign Film Award of 1.000 euros. Shared equally to: Maija Isola (Finland), Leena Kilpelainen. and Looking for Horses (Bosnia-Herzegovina/France),Stefan Pavlovic Best Greek Film Award of 1.000 euros with the support of Greek Film Centre: The Bet (Greece)Maria Leonida. The Award…