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Searching in the Dark: Michał Marczak on Chronicling Grief in ‘Closure’
Michał Marczak discusses the custom rig, life changes, and moral complexity that shape his Sundance-premiering Closure
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“We All Have a Role to Play:” Guillaume Ribot’s ‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ Reveals How Claude Lanzmann Made ‘Shoah’
Guillaume Ribot discusses transforming outtakes from Shoah and Claude Lanzmann’s writing into All I Had Was Nothingness
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Ji.hlava 2025: Top Prize-Winner ‘Silver,’ ‘Virtual Girlfriends,’ ‘Resilience,’ and ‘The Beauty of the Donkey’
The Czech festival’s 29th edition reaffirms its commitment to emerging filmmakers while presenting socially minded work that examines extraction
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“Drag is a Fertile Ground For Political Discussion”: Fil Ieropoulos On His Docu-Manifesto, ‘Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens’
In this interview, Fil Ieropoulos discusses his documentary-cum-manifesto, Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens
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DOK Leipzig 2025: Doc Together, ‘The Thing to Be Done,’ ‘Elephants & Squirrels,’ and ‘A Scary Movie’
The world’s oldest documentary festival continues its commitment to an equitable world, from supporting exiled filmmakers to its programming
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“We Cannot Run Away From Our Animalistic Nature”: Tamara Kotevska on ‘The Tale of Silyan’
Tamara Kotevska discusses how patiently filming white storks resulted in The Tale of Silyan’s story of North Macedonian ecological and economic
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“Documentary Probably Doesn’t Exist”: Gianluca Matarrese on ‘GEN_’ and ‘I Want Her Dead’
Gianluca Matarrese discusses his festival darlings GEN_ and I Want Her Dead, plus why “documentary probably doesn’t exist”
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The Explainer: What Is British Impartiality (And Can It Survive)?
How the BBC elevated impartiality to its “very essence” amid documentary cancellations and regulatory pressures, and whether this embattled value can
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San Sebastián 2025: Lau Haizetara Project Highlights, ‘Good Valley Stories,’ ‘Flores para Antonio,’ Juliette Binoche’s Doc, and ‘Copper’
At this year’s edition, the Basque festival demonstrated why it prides itself on its political conscience, with many of its titles exploring
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Exclusive: Trailer for Gregor Brändli’s ‘Elephants & Squirrels,’ Premiering at DOK Leipzig and IDFA
Watch the trailer for the debut feature documentary by Swiss filmmaker Gregor Brändli, which chronicles the fight for the repatriation of Sri Lankan
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