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In My Own Landscapes Antoine Chapon has created a film about one man’s form of escapism, a virtual world he helped create to prepare soldiers for the horrors of war.

Selections include Pripyat Piano (Czech Republic, Medium/Short Comp) and Wolves at the Border (Czech Republic, Grand Angle)

On 26 April leading festival personnel, including Vision du Réel’s Emilie Bujès and IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia, gathered to talk online about how festivals may/should/could respond to the new reality under COVID-19.

The Soviet Union is not dead – it’s alive and kicking in Magnitogorsk, an unsightly town that resembles a fake film set, but one populated by some very real people.

In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.

Beautiful, experimental and boundary-testing documentary entertains with a strange double protagonist and a washed-up white whale.

Docudays UA kicked off online 24 April 2020 with an eclectic industry programme which runs through to May 3. The festival component comprises 70 international documentaries but these are available to Ukrainian audiences only.

Shot from a Zurich window, the film inventively combines images of demolition and re-construction with reflections on the loss of loved-ones and the harsh treatment of newly-arrived migrants.

All of it is love: it's beautiful, it's painful, it's enviable and it's what we live for and through. And it is what this film is undeniably made of.

Self-isolating with his son Charlie over in California, UK doc maestro Nick Broomfield talks corona, Trump and editing on Zoom, as well as his return to the world of gangsta rap.