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189 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 10/06/2025.

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Interview: Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of decolonization  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Envision competition title Notes on Displacement

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Envision competition title Notes on Displacement

Khaled Jarrar’s in-depth documentary follows a single family on a gruelling journey from Syria to Germany  

09/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Review: Until Tomorrow

Review: Until Tomorrow

A single mother and her best friend try to find a person to take a baby in for one night in Ali Asgari’s heart-wrenching drama-thriller  

28/10/2022 | Zagreb 2022

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

Interview: Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

“It was necessary to constantly refocus on this microcosm and find a way to express something bigger through it”

The winner of Best Documentary Film at this year’s First Steps Awards talks about her approach to the singular world portrayed in the movie and its protagonists  

29/09/2022 | /Qatar/Lebanon/Germany

Review: Alam

Review: Alam

Firas Khoury’s debut feature is a fiery and engaging exploration of youth, politicisation and forced forgetting  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

Interview: Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"

VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from Queen Zaphira's perspective  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Last Queen

Review: The Last Queen

VENICE 2022: Duo Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri make their feature film debut with a movie looking back on an historic event in 16th century Algeria from a female perspective  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Autobiography

Review: Autobiography

VENICE 2022: Echoes of Indonesia’s 31-year dictatorship abound in the present, in debutant Makbul Mubarak’s sombre political drama  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Another Spring

Interview: Mladen Kovačević • Director of Another Spring

“It's an intimate reminiscence, especially from the perspective of this new pandemic, about events from the early 1970s”

We delve into how COVID-19 inspired the documentary director to make a film about the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia  

15/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: Another Spring

Review: Another Spring

Mladen Kovačević's new documentary tackles the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia with an approach that combines a procedural account of events with a horror-film atmosphere  

05/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

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