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Atomic Light: How the Bomb Became Documentary
Seven decades of nuclear documentaries oscillate between state propaganda and radical witness, revealing more about power than atoms
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An Eye for Portraiture: A New Raymond Depardon Retrospective Makes a Case for the Humanism Inherent in the French Filmmaker’s Oeuvre
A new Raymond Depardon retrospective presents the full breadth of the French filmmaker and photojournalist’s keen-eyed documentary impulses
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War as “Something Interconnected and Repetitive”: Marie Wilke on Her Berlinale-premiering Scenario 
German director Marie Wilke discusses her observational principles at Europe’s largest military training ground, where war is meticulously rehearsed
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When East Meets West 2026: What Boutique Coproduction Forums Reveal About the Future of Documentary Markets
This year’s When East Meets West market at Trieste framed its program not in terms of scale or prestige, but of precision
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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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