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Israel has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza as it demands Hamas agree to a US plan for a ceasefire extension. Just hours later, ‘No Other Land’ by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal won the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary at the 97th edition of the Academy Awards. The filmmakers criticised US foreign policy and asked that the international community act.
Doc Weekly was in attendance at the 2024 edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) where Trains by Maciej J. Drygas picked up the Best Film and Best Editing in the International Competition. A bitter sweet archival portrait of the people of 20th century Europe, Trains captures their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
Doc Weekly is covering this year’s BFI London Film Festival with reviews and interviews of some of our favourite documentaries from the selection. As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora, or The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder, by Inadelso Cossa first premiered at this year’s Berlinale. Over 30 years after the end of the Mozambican civil war, Inadelso Cossa returns to his grandmother’s village to record untold stories of the conflict.
Doc Weekly was at this year’s États généraux du film documentaire in Lussas, France, for a rare screening of “The Invasion”, (2024) followed by a Q&A with Sergei Loznitsa. Weeks after seeing it, scenes and characters from Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, “The Invasion”, documenting daily life in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, remain burned into the retina.
For three years, Gianfranco Rosi filmed armed conflicts in the Middle East along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, witnessing the scars of violence and destruction left across their harsh landscapes.
To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
Director Dominique van Olm met the brave team of ‘démineurs’ committed to cleaning up the century-old battlefield to produce a sensitive, beautifully shot film accompanied by a moving soundscape - our latest Free of the Week.
Filmmaker Karen Winther still struggles with the Neo-Nazi ghost of her past. How could she become part of such a hateful cult? She sets out to meet other former extremists and ask why they also put the violence behind them.
We asked Keegan Kuhn, co-director of “What The Health” and the incredibly successful “Cowspiracy”, what documentaries he recommends.
National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
Today’s What Are You Watching, Quarantine Edition comes from Güven in Ismir, Turkey.
Battaglia’s photographs are as shocking now as they were back then, when they successfully galvanised public opinion against the ruthless Sicilian Mafia.
Tam is a self-confessed true crime junkie (like so many of us), naming "The Jinx" as her most wtf documentary and "Who Killed Little Gregory?" as one that made her cry. And the last documentary she watched? The addictive Tiger King that pretty much everyone is talking about...
For our fourth episode, Tihana talks us through her latest watch: What Happened Miss Simone?, the most sinister documentary series she’s ever seen: Killer Women with Piers Morgan and Knock Down the House, the inspiring Netflix hit featuring Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
For our second episode we met Lucie while in Coronavirus quarantine at her parents’ house. She suggests listening to the BBC's "Tunnel 29" podcast, reckons she was unduly manipulated by the "Kony 2012" documentary and most of the documentaries she's seen have made her cry.
For our first episode of “What Are You Watching?” we met Matt, who had his mind blown by the ‘Zeitgeist’ movies as a kid, was inspired by the cult film ‘American Movie’ and reckons ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’, a film about product placement that is funded by product placement, is the most “WTF” doc he’s ever seen.
The Cave follows Dr Amani Ballour, a Syrian paediatric doctor and manager of an underground hospital comprised of a network of tunnels and caves in besieged Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus.
Every day, hundreds of millions of tweets, Instagram posts, Facebook updates and Youtube uploads make their way online. Inevitably, a significant portion of these uploads will be reported for violating a platform’s rules. But what happens next? Who decides what should be deleted?
This is a conflict that most in the West have chosen to ignore, even though it is the world’s bloodiest since WW2. Follow the inspiring and tragic paths of four people, as they navigate the complex landscape of Congo’s civil war.
