Watch the trailer for Olga Chernykh’s Visions du Réel premiere The Illusion of a Quiet Night , a nocturnal portrait of Ukraine filmed in a single
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Watch the trailer for Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary on a pacifist community in western Ukraine grappling with war and natural disasters
This year’s When East Meets West market at Trieste framed its program not in terms of scale or prestige, but of precision
Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić discuss avoiding rural clichés in their Montenegro-set documentary To Hold a Mountain
The Czech festival’s 29th edition reaffirms its commitment to emerging filmmakers while presenting socially minded work that examines extraction
In this interview, Srđan Kovačević discusses his Ljubljana-set observational documentary, The Thing to Be Done, about an office fighting for workers’
In its first edition under Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez, IDFA highlighted documentaries that cross borders both geopolitical and
In this interview, Mstyslav Chernov discusses how he transformed war reporting into immersive cinema in 2000 Meters to Andriivka
In this interview, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk talks about how the war refocused his portrait of a Ukrainian pacifist community in Silent Flood
In this interview, Vitaly Mansky talks about how Bruegel paintings influenced his three-hour epic about life in Lviv, Time to the Target