FIC Luanda is back after an 11-year hiatus, with a formidable programme and a city to reconnect to. 12 documentary films offer a way into this Angolan encounter between documentary, vérité, and the politics of looking.
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FIC Luanda is back after an 11-year hiatus, with a formidable programme and a city to reconnect to. 12 documentary films offer a way into this Angolan encounter between documentary, vérité, and the politics of looking.
Doc Weekly was in attendance at the 2024 edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) where our writer Laoise Murray caught the world premiere of A Want in Her by Myrid Carten, a raw, gut-punching and surprisingly funny examination of the meaning of unconditional love.
The setting is hazily atmospheric - neon red, smoky scenes in a dive bar in Las Vegas - aptly named The Roaring 20s - about to close its doors for the last time.
The ICA’s FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020 is taking place online, via their new digital programme platform Cinema 3, from 27 November – 13 December. Filmed in collaboration with indigenous communities in Guna Yala, Panama, Panquiaco is a poetic fable of melancholy and belonging.
Marc Isaac’s film is a brazen hybrid featuring himself and a cast of real people that gather in his home to a scripted narrative on the theme of hospitality inspired by their personal backgrounds. Although some of the scenes (including the opener) genuinely ring true, there’s no knowing just how much is artifice.
Episode 10 of our Quarantine Editions comes to you from filmmaker Cyrus Stowe’s stoop in Brooklyn, New York.
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Every morning Grand Master Chan Hui performs Tai Chi to cultivate his mental energy and calm his mind. What makes him even more unusual, is that he chooses to do so under the bridge in Canning Town, London.
