Like all festivals of the past few months, Locarno has altered its format for 2020. However, with its Films After Tomorrow selection, the organisation has boldly pioneered a truly unique focus. Here are our top 5 docs.
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Like all festivals of the past few months, Locarno has altered its format for 2020. However, with its Films After Tomorrow selection, the organisation has boldly pioneered a truly unique focus. Here are our top 5 docs.
Since “Boys State” won Best Documentary at Sundance (beating audience award-winner “Crip Camp”), it’s received a steady stream of critical acclaim including a five-star review from the Guardian and even a few shouts for best film of the year. Exceptionally, its now premiering online as part of Sundance London on the 9th of August and we highly recommend you tune in.
We’re teaming up with our favourite festival news platform Film Fest Report, to bring you a top 10 of our favourite short films available on the Selects platform.
We’ve spent the past week delving into this phenomenal collection and have emerged to bring you 10 stunning must-see films.
What will the impact of Covid-19 be on film festivals after the crisis? Is 2020 an existential moment for the format? Does it need a rethink? We spoke with Sheffield Doc/Fest Director Cintia Gil.
Aptly named “The Home Entertainment Edition” and running from the 1st to 17th of May, the fabulous quirkiness of this year’s slimmed down programme is just as addictive and an endless internet rabbit-hole. Our top 5 documentaries to watch include
Battaglia’s photographs are as shocking now as they were back then, when they successfully galvanised public opinion against the ruthless Sicilian Mafia.
This year, Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has made the bold move to shift the entire event online, making nearly all its films available to watch online, for free. Festivals around the world are facing tough choices but Visions du Réel is one of the few making its films so readily available - a joy for doc fans all around the world!
Despite the global pandemic, Sheffield Doc/Fest will deliver on its promise to filmmakers and industry representatives, exceptionally holding its flagship pitching initiatives, MeetMarket (for features and series) and Alternate Realities Talent Market (for new media creatives), via virtual video-conferencing from the 8th to 10th of June 2020.
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world and just the latest one to have fallen victim to the global Coronavirus outbreak.
But fear not! The organisers have got you covered with plenty of fantastic docs available to watch online. In partnership with Mediapart, you can now discover Cinéma du Réel’s thirteen “Premières Fenêtres” selections for free.
The 42nd edition of Cinéma du Réel kicks off in Paris this week and we can’t wait to dig in to this year’s selection. Doc Weekly will be in attendance, keeping an eye out for future classics, interviewing directors and keeping you all updated on social media along the way. But first, here are our top picks from this year’s line-up.
At this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), we sat down with directors Rica Saito and Caio Castor to discuss their short film “Batalha” or “Battle”.
With the festival coming to a close this weekend, we thought we’d share our highlights from the past couple of weeks and the festival’s award-winners along with a sneaky peek at some of our upcoming content.
This year, Doc Weekly will be in attendance catching world-premieres of the most exciting upcoming documentaries, interviewing some of our favourite directors and keeping you all involved on social media along the way.
But first, what are 2019’s hottest tickets and if you’ll be attending too, what premieres should you be looking out for ?
