Cinepolitical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
February's Essential Docs & Dialogues
February 2025 sees the spring festival season in sight with Modern Times Review across the continent at Thessaloniki, CPH:DOX, One World CZ, Movies That Matter, FIFDH, and more. But first, one more look back at the films, interviews, and news featured across the platform from the month that was.
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News
Exploring radical environmentalism at the 65th Krakow Film Festival
BIFED 2025 announces festival dates and opens submissions for ecological documentaries
CPH:DOX 2025 unveils full programme with record-breaking lineup
CPH:DOX unveils INTER:ACTIVE 2025 «Untamed: Humanity Rewilded» exhibition
CPH:DOX Summit 2025 to address future of documentary and media accessibility
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival announces 2025 competition lineup
Sarajevo Film Festival and Council of Europe introduce new Youth Perspectives Award
Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces 2025 lineup of regional documentaries
CPH:DOX and Kunsthal Charlottenborg launch three-year human rights initiative
Films
Holding Liat
Director: Brandon Kramer
The horror of the conflict in Gaza for all innocents is underlined.
Letters From Wolf Street
Director: Arjun Talwar
When immigrants are the scapegoats for all of Europe's ills, and the far right is resurgent, Arjun Talwar's poetic glimpse into the experience of life as a foreigner in Poland is a potent antidote to hatred.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
The Tree of Authenticity
Director: Sammy Baloji
Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.
Yalla Parkour
Director: Areeb Zouaiter
Creating an identity among the ruins of Gaza.
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