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Becoming the River: Kristina Mikhailova Discusses Violence, Anger, and Female Agency in ‘River Dreams’
In this interview, Kristina Mikhailova discusses violence, anger, and female agency in her Berlinale title River Dreams
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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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“A New Way to Care”: Kevin B. Lee on Expanding the Desktop Documentary With His Feature Debut ‘Afterlives’
In this interview, Kevin B. Lee discusses why he needed to expand the desktop documentary to craft his feature debut, Afterlives
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“It Seems to Be the Time to Consider Bridges”: James Benning on ‘EIGHT BRIDGES’
This essay and interview examines how James Benning’s EIGHT BRIDGES builds on his decades-long approach to extended observation, personal geography
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Revisiting Memory, Desire and Form: Angelica Ruffier on Her IFFR-Bound ‘La belle année’
In this interview, Angelica Ruffier talks about mining her past brushes with desire for her IFFR doc La belle année
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A Place Like Home: Founder Judy Kibinge Looks Back on Her 13-Year Tenure Running Kenyan-based Fund DocuBox
After stepping down from running DocuBox, founder Judy Kibinge reflects back on her 13-year tenure at the Kenya-based East Africa documentary fund
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Sinéad O’Shea Talks Capturing Fergie Chambers’s Many Contradictions in ‘All About the Money’
Sinéad O’Shea talks about the challenges of capturing Fergie Chambers’s many contradictions in All About the Money
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Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
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Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown on Making ‘Kikuyu Land’ for Global Audiences
Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown on what to translate and what to keep sacred in their Sundance-premiering Kikuyu Land
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The Synthesis: Valerie Veatch Connects AI and Eugenics in ‘Ghost in the Machine’
Valerie Veatch traces the links between AI and eugenics in Sundance-premiering Ghost in the Machine , a self-funded documentary treatise made with
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