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Thessaloniki DocFest Int’l Comp review: La Pietà by Rafa Molés and Pepe Andreu - Business Doc Europe How to film on the massive scale of a melting glacier? Rafa Molés and Pepe Andreu, directors of the feature doc La Pietà, selected for Thessaloniki Doc Fest International Competition, approach the sub...

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about La Pièta, screening at the #ThessalonikiDocFest.

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CPH:DOX DOX:AWARD: Daughters of the Forest by Otilia Portillo Padua - Business Doc Europe Beautifully filmed, the documentary portrays the mycelium as a living, breathing and talking entity connected to all of the forest – and to all of us.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about the rather wonderful doc 'Daughters of the Forest', showing at #CPH:DOX, which teaches us how tradition and modernity can and should go hand in hand.

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CPH:DOX DOX:AWARD: Christiania by Karl Friis Forchhammer - Business Doc Europe What the eponymously-titled doc implicitly underlines is that the world is a better place for having Christiania in it.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about the somewhat critical, but also clearly celebratory doc 'Christiania', showing at #CPH:DOX.

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Locarno Semaine de la critique: Dear Beautiful Beloved by Juri Rechinsky - Business Doc Europe Transportation of the vulnerable has been a necessity in Ukraine since the invasion of February 24 2022. Tragically, so has the transportation of the dead.

“The war is still going on. It changed a lot of things in Ukraine, it has changed people, soldiers. Everybody’s in a very different state. Everybody is on the edge of exhaustion and madness”, read an interview with DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED director Juri Rechinsky buff.ly/ClZ4OXl #BusinessDocEurope

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Berlinale 2026 Forum Special review: River Dreams by Kristina Mikhailova - Business Doc Europe Mikhailova travels down the Aksay , sitting down with young women to reflect on their powerful, vulnerable, terrible, hopeful lives within the patriarchy.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope on the wonderful River Dreams, screening at the @berlinfilmfestival.bsky.social.

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Berlinale Panorama review: The Other Side of the Sun by Tawfik Sabouni - Business Doc Europe In his restrained yet devastating documentary, Belgian-Syrian filmmaker Tawfik Sabouni visits the prison where he was held under the Assad regime.

self plug: I wrote sth for #businessdoceurope about Syrian doc 'The Other Side of the Sun', playing at the #Berlinale.

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Berlin Special review: The Story of Documentary Film (Eps 4-6) by Mark Cousins - Business Doc Europe In the first 4 episodes of his planned 16-episode series, Mark Cousins provides a stimulating overview of the history of documentary film up to the 1960s.

I wrote sth about Mark Cousins's first four episodes of The Story of Documentary Film, which is showing at the #Berlinale, for #businessdoceurope.

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IFFR 2026 Limelight review: Between Brothers by Tom Fassaert - Business Doc Europe Tom Fassaert raises poignant, at times troubling, questions about the personal and private aspects of filming your own family affairs.

self plug: I wrote sth about Tom Fassaert's family doc Between Brothers for #BusinessDocEurope, screening at @iffr-festival.bsky.social.

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Sundance review: To Hold a Mountain by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić - Business Doc Europe To be there, to live on this ancestral mountain, is to experience the most wondrous sense of space.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope on To Hold a Mountain, showing at @sundance.org fest.

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IDFA Envision Comp review: Confessions of a Mole by Mo Tan - Business Doc Europe When a Chinese film student returns home from Poland, the situation explodes into something intensely personal, and therefore highly universal.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about the impressive, intimate doc Confessions of a Mole (which includes some fun stop-motion animations), which is showing @idfafestival.bsky.social.

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IDFA 2025 International Competition review: Synthetic Sincerity by Marc Isaacs - Business Doc Europe There’s a gentle prodding of issues surrounding AI in this documentary-fiction hybrid by Marc Isaacs.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about Marc Isaac's wonderfully titled (but intellectually disappointing) hybrid doc 'Synthetic Sincerity', showing @idfafestival.bsky.social.

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IDFA Envision review: Trillion by Victor Kossakovsky - Business Doc Europe As the opera house is for opera, and a church is for service, the cinema is a temple to its art form. Victor Kossakovsky’s Trillion, which is best experienced without any prior knowledge of its conten...

self plug: me and Victor Kossakovsky had been drifting apart a bit lately, but I'm in awe of the cinematic quality of his b&w mood piece Trillion – even if I didn't get its message. written for #BusinessDocEurope, viewed @idfafestival.bsky.social.

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IDFA Int’l Comp review: A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Mehrdad Oskouei - Business Doc Europe In this nuanced and intimate documentary we follow Saraya as she films herself during her desperate odyssey.

self plug: I wrote sth for #BusinessDocEurope about Mehrdad Oskouie's (and Soraya's) A Fox Under a Pink Moon, showing @idfafestival.bsky.social.

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CPH:DOX DOX:AWARD review: Wilfred Buck by Lisa Jackson - Business Doc Europe A generously revealing exploration into the life of Wilfred Buck, an elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada, Lisa Jackson’s engaging film also acts as a spiritual guide to the heavens…

"Wilfred Buck´s complex life is not just the story of a man who has overcome the most terrible and dark moments...it also a story of how indigenous people have struggled to reclaim lost knowledge, ancient traditions and, crucially, self-respect after 100s of years of colonialism” #BusinessDocEurope

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IDFA International Comp interview: The Burden by Elvis Sabin Ngaibino - Business Doc Europe “The AIDS virus has wreaked too much havoc in Africa and it continues to do so. Among all the continents, Africa has paid the heaviest price."

"two relatives who were aware of the couple’s condition did not want the film to be made. For them, revealing the couple’s illness in broad daylight would mean that shame would fall upon the entire family" THE BURDEN director Elvis Sabin Ngaibino talking to #BusinessDocEurope

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IDFA International Comp interview: The Burden by Elvis Sabin Ngaibino - Business Doc Europe “The AIDS virus has wreaked too much havoc in Africa and it continues to do so. Among all the continents, Africa has paid the heaviest price."

"two relatives who were aware of the couple’s condition did not want the film to be made. For them, revealing the couple’s illness in broad daylight would mean that shame would fall upon the entire family" THE BURDEN director Elvis Sabin Ngaibino talking to #BusinessDocEurope

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Doclisboa Int'l Comp review: Cinema Kawakeb by Mahmoud Massad - Business Doc Europe This elegiac ode to a crumbling cinema in Amman intertwines the messy reality of making a documentary with archival news footage on Palestine-Israel.

self plug: I wrote something for #BusinessDocEurope on Mahmoud Massad's documentary Cinema Kawakeb, screened at #Doclisboa.

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Visions du Réel Burning Lights review: Knit’s Island  - Business Doc Europe On our physical planet, very few places and communities remain uncharted. But the world wide web is a largely unexplored and ever-growing universe.

"a fascinating, original and disconcerting portrait of its inhabitants” #BusinessDocEurope on KNIT'S ISLAND, out now on True Story.

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VdR Burning Lights Comp: Dreamers by Stéphanie Barbey & Luc Peter - Business Doc Europe You’ve lived all your life in a country, paid taxes and maybe even bought a house and started a family. All the time, though, you know you can be deported.

The film is made in black and white. “All these lives are in the shadow, people without a real life. They work, they pax taxes but they always have to hide in a way and to be very low key,” Peter explains why the filmmakers didn’t use colour.

The DREAMERS directors talking to #BusinessDocEurope

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Cannes ACID review: On The Edge by Nicolas Peduzzi - Business Doc Europe How to keep mind and body intact when surrounded by intense emotional and psychological pressures is at the compassionate heart of On The Edge.

"Jamal sets about immersing himself within the lives of his patients, often balancing bluntness with gentle reassurance, and spending as much time with families of the patients, acting both as mediator and support." #BusinessDocEurope, ON THE EDGE is out now on TS.

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Venice Critics’ Week 2023: Malqueridas by Tana Gilbert - Business Doc Europe A film that offers evidence that Sisterhood is feminism’s most powerful weapon and therefore the Patriarchy’s mightiest opponent.

"an example of Sisterhood’s formidable strengths” #BusinessDocEurope on ON THE EDGE.

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Hot Docs/EFP Changing Face of Europe: Echo of You by Zara Zerny - Business Doc Europe Echo of Life is nevertheless a wondrous experience that touches your soul.

"a wondrous experience, which immediately says everything about the power of memory....Echo of You reaches your soul"

#BusinessDocEurope on ECHO OF YOU by Zara Zerny, out now on True Story

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IDFA Luminous review: Echo of You by Zara Zerny - Business Doc Europe Echo of Life is a wondrous experience that touches your soul.

"a wondrous experience, which immediately says everything about the power of memory....Echo of You reaches your soul" #BusinessDocEurope on ECHO OF YOU buff.ly/KW6WNe7 out today on True Story.

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Krakow FF opening film: The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski - Business Doc Europe As one of the characters puts it in The Hamlet Syndrome, it’s not about choice, it’s about responsibility. She is one of five actors who have returned from active military service on the frontline in…

"the artistic process is also harrowing, in which emotions are raw and memories of battle and/or incarceration shocking." #BusinessDocEurope on THE HAMLET SYNDROME buff.ly/tT1iUip out now on True Story.

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Locarno Film Fest: The Balcony Movie by Paweł Łoziński - Business Doc Europe For two and half years Łoziński interviewed passers-by from his balcony, discussing their problems, inviting them to be a hero in his film.

"so very human, and heartachingly effective" #BusinessDocEurope on THE BALCONY MOVIE buff.ly/IKR9aBr out now on True Story.

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IDFA Opening Film review: A Picture to Remember by Olga Chernykh - Business Doc Europe Olga Chernykh’s stylistically daring yet accessible film is here to remind us that an unjust war still rages in her country.

"stylistically daring yet accessible...confronts us with the complexities of recall and the manifold meanings that pictures can onvey while the war in Ukraine is still raging." #BusinessDocEurope on A PICTURE TO REMEMBER https://buff.ly/3ESI1sq out now on True Story.

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