Revenir
REVENIR is a ruthlessly interrogative documentary and the Document 2018 Jury Award winner. Naomi Gessesse reviews a film that challenges the audience to consider who has the right to tell a story.
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Silence is a Falling Body
Agustina Comedi has beautifully created a moving portrait of her late father Jaime, an Argentinean LBTQ+ activist before his married fatherhood. Victoria Becker reviews at Document 2018.
Document 2018 Shorts: 70 Years of Nakba
Document Human Rights Film Festival included this program of nine Palestinian short films. Chris Dobson reviews the screening in Glasgow.
Interview with Gwendolyn Leick
We spoke to Olympian weightlifter, academic and film star Gwendolyn Leick at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival.
Bernadett Tuza-Ritter: A Woman Captured
Bernadett Tuza-Ritter explains the story behind her documentary A WOMAN CAPTURED, which screened at the Cambridge Film Festival this year.
Under The Wire
UNDER THE WIRE serves as a great memento that both quality journalism and humanism are not nice things to have, but powerful necessities. Victoria Becker reviews at Cologne Film Festival.
Meet the directors: Eastern Memories
“He was more than just a linguist, he was the Indiana Jones of his time…” April McIntyre interviews the makers of EASTERN MEMORIES.
What makes a great documentary maker?
Leon Lee, director of HUMAN HARVEST (2014) and LETTER FROM MASANJIA (2018), offers three strong pointers for any would-be documentary filmmaker.
A Woman Captured
A deeply emotive, harrowing documentary about one woman’s life as a servant and slave that will completely open your eyes to the reality of current-day slavery in Europe.
Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Leick is many things: a writer, an anthropologist and a mother. A woman in her mid-sixties who moved to the UK forty years ago, lured here by the British Museum and cosmopolitan way of life. A cancer patient who, at the age of 52, took up weightlifting, and has since become a European and … Continue reading Gwendolyn