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It took me by surprise, when I saw that the film about Katja Schumann was selected for Nordisk Panorama. I had read the overall positive review of Danish Kim Skotte in Politiken but in competition with other Danish documentaries by…

How do I start a review of this outstanding documentary? With one of the characters? Why not Yuri? Maybe not a character but… … a dog who comes back again and again in the editing. Yuri is outside the house,…

There are several documentaries from Taliban’s Afghanistan on the market. I was last year in the jury of WatchDocs in Warsaw, where “Kabul. Warrior’s Prayer” by Aboozar Amini was given the main award. And I saw “If Luck Will Come”…

… by Guro Saniola Bjerk, who comes from “Båtsfjord, one of the northernmost fishing villages of the world, where cod is more important than God. In Cod We Trust is a mosaic puzzle, where people are knit together by fish, the town…

IGA: The project The Shepherd’s Son (Azerbaijan) directed by Nurlan Hasanli received the Baltic Sea Docs Award at the 30th edition of Baltic Sea Docs, held in Riga. A total of 26 projects were showcased and, for the first time, ARTE…

Good evening, friends, colleagues, and guardians of the documentary tradition. It is wonderful again to see the many friends and colleagues I have known for almost 30 years, but it is even better to see all of you who are…

AMAZOMANIA DIR. NATHAN GROSSMAN | 2026 | 93 MIN | SWEDEN, DENMARK, FRANCE | 16+ In 1996, a Swedish journalist together with an international expedition group heads to the Amazon rainforest to meet the Korubu tribe – a group of…

Today in two months, we’ll be kicking off the 69th edition of DOK Leipzig and are delighted to unveil this year’s motif. It shows a pair of bright red dungarees, once again designed by Leipzig-based graphic designer and illustrator Stefan…

This is a question we often hear from festival guests, audiences and collaborators, so we decided to tell you – as far as it is possible. Why wouldn’t it be possible, you may ask? Well, because it is not really…

Press release from the festival: RAFF Generation once again brings a series of lectures, workshops, talks and case studies aimed at young people who want to gain a better understanding of film, journalism and the media – as well as anyone…

I saw the film but understood that I did not get it all. Especially who was who in this three generation family drama, that takes place in Uzice in Serbia. I went back to the MacBook this morning and watched…

“Artist Dragana Jurišić travels to the town of Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to stage a short film in the style of a mythical cult Western director Hari Džekson (Harry Jackson). In an attempt to uncover the story of Hari’s life…

There is a bitterness in the face of the charismatic elderly Roko Markovina. “There is no justice in the world, nothing is fair”. He lives on an island and goes with a stick. He is doing gardening. Let me quote…

“The idea of making a film first came to me after the death of my close friend and brother-in-arms, 20-year-old Artem. I really wanted him to be remembered. My brothers-in-arms, who had by then become like family, accepted the idea.…

Det var Denis Levant, som fik mig til at gå til pressevisning i Gloria forleden. Denne særlige skuespiller huskede jeg fra kortfilm og fra flere film af Leos Carax, f.eks. ”Les Amants du Pont Neuf”, hvor han spillede med Isabelle…

Originaltitel: The Oligarch & the Art Dealer, 3 dele af omkring en time, første del på DR fra 4. maj. Jeg elsker kunst, besøger museer og udstillinger når jeg kan – i Paris, New York, Barcelona, København, Louisiana – fortrinsvis…

I am in love with that city. After years away I was three days in the Lithuanian capital. It was indeed a Déjà vu, I have been there so many times but it has been a while ago. I was…

As a loyal subscriber to The Kyiv Independent that gives me information with a different perspective on life from a country at war, different from the traditional media, I was happy to see that the online newspaper was involved in…

Anna Kis & András Földes: 80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS Actuality… one can say and you ask yourself, whether the post-Orban Hungary will be better to improve or restore, if you like, the conditions for the independent media. That’s one thing, the…

A total of 112 carefully curated films within sixteen programs open up a space for encounters between different experiences of reality. At the press conference ahead of the 22nd edition of the ZagrebDox Documentary Film Festival, its organizers announced the program that will…

The creative consultancies for projects in the rough-cut stage allow participants to present their documentaries to renowned international consultants, who provide guidance to enhance the final outcome of the film. Commissioned by DocsBarcelona co-founder and creative consultant Tue Steen Müller,…

John Wilson will return to DocsBarcelona to present his feature film debut, The History of Concrete, following its screenings at the Sundance and CPH:DOX festivals. The American filmmaker, who already presented his cult series How To With John Wilson at the catalan festival in 2024, will…

DocsBarcelona will open its 29th edition on May 7 with the Iranian film A Fox Under a Pink Moon, in which sixteen-year-old artist Soraya Akhlaghi documents her attempts to escape Iran, where she lives with her abusive husband, and reunite with her…

Jeg skynder mig at anbefale denne smukke film fra Afghanistan, hvor nedenstående copy-pastede tekst giver god besked, så jeg nøjes med at gengive denne sætning fra CPH-DOX: …a lovingly observant and visually powerful debut, filmed over three years and with…

“Whispers in May”: Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere Winner of the main award. A darling, wonderful to watch, obvious that the director loves the three girls as they laugh and talk about, what it…

World Premiere. First feature documentary. Main award in “Next Wave”… and definitely one of the best films I have seen at this year’s CPH:DOX. Totally balanced in rhythm, long shots, no camera movement, each image is like a nature morte,…

The juries have deliberated and the winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2026 have been announced this evening at the festival’s Award Show at CPH:DOX’ Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg. See all the winners here! The international competition lineup included…

DOX:AWARD‘The jury would firstly like to thank CPH:DOX for gathering us to view, discuss and debate a group of films that transported us around the world through varied cinematic languages. To the filmmakers, it has been an honor and a…

The photo is from the 2025 edition of the Change but yesterday’s session took place in the same cinema hall in the Film House of Copenhagen and there was a full house with the same set up and Christian Popp…

Let me give you an impression of the beginning of the film: Reportage images of an ambulance that has stopped at a hospital, victims of bombing are being brought into the hospital, people standing outside with their mobile phone cameras.…

By Katrine Kiilgaard, Managing director & Niklas Engstrøm, Artistic director (PHOTO: the directors on stage). This year’s opening film, MARIINKA, is a powerful example of what documentary cinema can do at its very best: it takes us beyond the headlines…

I have copied from a press release: “On Sunday, March 1, the National Film Award “Lielais Kristaps” ceremony took place at the Riga Congress Hall, honoring the best Latvian films and outstanding film professionals of the past year, as well…

A FOX UNDER A PINK MOON Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe with her mobile phone. I have seen several films made by Mehrdad Oskouei, remember especially “Starless Dreams” from 2016, this…

I close my eyes and think about the film, I have just seen. On my MacBook Pro far away from Berlin, where the premiere was yesterday. I see beauty, pure beauty, in the images and in the way the Kazakh…

I went through the film list of CPH:DOX to find gems I have seen and can recommend that you give a chance. In alphabetical order listing also which category they are in if that helps you. More information on the…

96 years. Thank you for living that long! Thank you for giving us that many films about “the other America”. Thank you for being an immense inspiration for filmmakers all over the world. You appear many times on this site…

17 projects to be presented at the Royal Theatre of Denmark March 17-19. Here they are copy-pasted from the website of CPH:DOX: ARTIFACTS OF WAR Marketed as safe tools of public order, less-lethal weapons circulate globally. ARTIFACTS OF WAR moves…

THE SELECTED PROJECTS FOR CHANGE 2026 ARE: 10 THINGS [WT] I’m Niniko, an aspiring comedian dreaming of London. My cousin Kakha, Georgia’s beloved actor, refuses to leave. Political turmoil awakens our shared trauma: my dream becomes escape while he fights…

In a few months, two years will have passed since the death of Thomas Heise, a key figure of European documentary and auteur cinema over the last fifty years. Heise was remembered in Bolzano one month ago during two very intense days,…

The long-awaited documentary ‘MARIINKA’ directed by acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue, has been selected as the opening film of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX taking place March 11–22, 2026 in Copenhagen. The film will celebrate its world premiere at…

It’s looking at you, the bull. From the big screen in the cinema Grand in Copenhagen. Together with an almost full hall on a Wednesday afternoon, the first day of CPH:DOX 2025, I booked a ticket for Catalan Albert Serra’s…

 Dear Tue Steen Müller ,At a moment when Greenland is increasingly framed through the language of geopolitics, resources and strategic interests, the European Film Academy dedicates its newest _UNDERSCORE edition to Greenlandic cinema. We have several Greenlandic members and it is…