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Noteworthy Norwegian Documentaries
Having traveled to two Norwegian film festivals in four months, Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) and Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) it´s safe to say that Norwegian Documentary filmmaking is on … Continue reading
‘Blood Brother’ wins U.S. Grand Jury Prize and ‘A River Changes Course’ wins World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
Blood Brother (dir. Steve Hoover) won two awards at Sundance the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. documentary. The documentary tells the story of American guy Rocky who was traveling in … Continue reading
Film festival frenzy
Film festival fans have many festivals to choose from in the coming weeks. Sundance is currently happening in Park City, Utah, Doc Point started earlier this week in Helsinki, Göteborg … Continue reading
TIFF report
There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void (dir. Saeed Taji Farouky, UK, 2012) was awarded The Tromsø Palm at TIFF – Tromsø International Film Festival, in Tromsø, … Continue reading
Zubroffka highlights
The 7th edition of Zubroffka in Białystok and Podlasie in Poland came to an end last Sunday. The festival was a great success with screening of dozens of noteworthy short films. … Continue reading
Zubroffka International Short Film Festival 5-9th of December
Zubroffka International Short Film Festival starts coming Wednesday in Białystok and Podlasie in Poland, and runs until the 9th of December. 76 short films from Poland and numerous other countries … Continue reading
‘First Cousin Once Removed’ wins VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at IDFA
First Cousin Once Removed (USA) directed by Alan Berliner won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. Esther Hertog (NL) received both the IDFA award for First Appearance and … Continue reading
IDFA 14-25th of November
IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam – One of the most renowned documentary film festivals in the world starts tomorrow and lasts until the 25th of November in the … Continue reading
CPH:DOX Winners
The Act of Killing, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous (2012) won the CPH:DOX Award on Friday. The film was an opening film at the festival and one of … Continue reading
Interview with director Luca Ragazzi
Italy – Love it or Leave it was one of the documentary highlights at this year´s RIFF. One of the films´s director Luca Ragazzi, visited Reykjavík and did Q&A´s with … Continue reading
Four more days filled with docs
With four more days to go, RIFF – Reykjavík International Film Festival is in full swing. Docs & Film Festivals has been out and about and so far seen these … Continue reading
Top 20 films from Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Awards
5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (2011) won the audience awards at Sheffield Doc/Fest, followed by Searching for Sugar Man and Man with a Movie Camera. The top 20 … Continue reading
