Dokumentale 2025 interview: Vivian Schröder, Impact Director
Vivian Schröder, Impact Director and co-founder of Dokumentale (Berlin), talks to BDE about the event’s second edition, running June 12 to 22. “We are celebrating humanity,” she says of her festival ethos. “We come together in a space as humans and we listen to each other and sometimes we need to become uncomfortable in uncomfortable conversations. These are the times that demand it, and we want to have a space for multiple perspectives and dialogue.”
Second Dokumentale pas de deux with Berlin Ballet Company
The second Dokumentale will kick off in style June 11 with Glanz & Widerstand (Glamour & Resistance) - an immersive foray into the life of Marlene Dietrich, presented in association with the Berlin Ballet Company. Dedicated to documentary storytelling across different media, Dokumentale 2025 will present 40 documentary films, ten of which will be competing for the Grand Prize, from 12-22 June.
Doxumentale Competition: The Age of Water by Isabel & Alfredo Alcántara
In The Age of Water, brother and sister Isabel & Alfredo Alcántara tell a story with true global resonance, how the over-extraction of groundwater to boost agricultural yields can disturb previously contained toxic chemicals, leading to the contamination of drinking water. This is what happened in the Mexican town of La Cantera, where three infants died of leukaemia, the result of lethal radioactive toxins in the water. But six local women decided to fight back… Co-director Isabel Alcántara discusses her urgent new film with BDE.
