Movies that Matter festival announces 2021 winners
Watch Over Me wins the newly inaugurated Grand Jury Documentary Award. Activist Documentary Award (presented in collaboration with Amnesty International) goes to Celina Escher for her Fly so Far. Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel received the Dutch Movies Matter Award for their documentary Shadow Game.
VdR International Competition review: Bellum – The Daemon of War
A visually stunning, provocative and lyrical essay on modern warfare that raises philosophical and ethical questions about an inevitable future.
CPH: DOX review – Behind the Headlines by Daniel Andreas Sager
At the heart of this absorbing film is the underlying importance of investigative journalism within a world that prefers to suppress whistle-blowers, and favours spin over responsibility.
Ji.hlava’s Emerging Producers discuss the opportunities that can arise out of crisis
The Ji.hlava IDFF annual Emerging Producers workshop addressed last week the topic of Pandemic as an Opportunity. The event, which took place on the festival's FB page, brought together four workshop participants, each representing a different region of the continent.
CPH:DOX Dox:Award review: Lost Boys by Joonas Neuvonen and Sadri Cetinkaya
A dazzling dive into the deep underbelly of drug-fuelled red light tourism in Thailand and Cambodia, looking for two missing Finnish junkies through the eyes of their former travel companion. A morally ambiguous trip into the heart of darkness.
Visions du Réel International Comp review: Users by Talma Amadia
A mesmerizing visual essay on the impact of technology. It doesn’t judge but observes, and it poses questions which don’t necessarily need answering.
Sheffield 2021 announces opening and closing films
Sheffield Doc/Fest will open its 2021 edition with the European premiere of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul and will close with the world premiere of Mark Cousins’ The Story of Looking.
CPH:DOX review: Children of the Enemy by Gorki Glaser-Muller
A remarkable and provocative film, Children of the Enemy is the moving and powerful story of one man’s lonely fight to try and free his seven grandchildren from a refugee camp in Syria.
Visions du Reel Burning Lights review: WTC – A Love Story
A smartly observed examination of what happens when political, social and financial imperatives collide, set against the controversial and polarizing backdrop of the area surrounding the World Trade Centre in Brussels North amid plans for its redevelopment.
Visions du Réel: A Masterclass with Huezo
One of Latin-America’s most fêted docmakers, Mexican-Salvadorian director Tatiana Huezo will be participating in a masterclass at Visions du Réel 22 April, speaking live from Mexico City. She set aside time in advance to talk to Business Doc Europe about how working on her latest film, a fiction, compares to the doc experience.
