Interviews

With four films in Berlinale Forum as well as her recent pick-up of ecodoc Sanctuary, starring the Bardem brothers, doc doyenne Irena Taskovski has even greater plans to save stressed out film execs from themselves.

Producer Martin Marquet discusses Hubert Sauper’s Epicentro, which won the Grand Jury Prize of Sundance World Cinema Doc Competition, and is sold by Wild Bunch at EFM.

When Italian director Paolo Pisanelli decided to organise an exhibition of photographic works by legendary filmmaker Cecilia Mangini, little did he know that he would help unearth a forgotten treasure trove of photos she had taken in Vietnam in 1965, during the height of the war against the US.

Checkpoint Berlin is both a reflection on the city’s complex 20th Century history and an erudite essay on the Wall and its absence.

Facing deportation, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden have become afflicted with resignation syndrome, in which they withdraw into a coma-like state, trapped in a perpetual sleep lasting months or even years.

Jerry Rothwell’s new doc The Reason I Jump is based on Naoki Higashida’s book about his experiences as a non-speaking autistic person, written when he was just 13.

Director/producer Jens Meurer on his new documentary An Impossible Project, about the rebirth of the Polaroid camera and the man who made it possible.

In Kabul's Skateistan, girls learn to read and write… and skate, all the time experiencing a sense of empowerment both from their engagement in the activity and the inspiration of the women who teach them.

Norwegian Benjamin Ree’s The Painter and the Thief is audacious and thrilling in equal measure as it chronicles a unique, and highly unlikely, friendship.

Mark Stucke of UK online distributor Journeyman Pictures outlines his approach to the business of attaching eyeballs to high quality docs.