CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
CineRadical: A Monthly Brief on Documentary
November's unfiltered & essential docs and Dialogues
This month's roundup of the documentary film scene is here, and we're excited to explore significant stories that resonate both in front and behind the camera. After an eventful autumn, we've been invigorated by a variety of powerful tales. With the year winding down and the festival season shortening, our focus shifts to wrapping up the year with Warsaw’s Watch Docs.
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NEWS
Porto/Post/Doc concludes 2023 festival; crowns winning films
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival AGORA announces new prize and opens submissions
IDFA 2023: the complete winners
Palestinian Film Institute withdraws IDFA activities following opening night statement
Docudays UA issues open letter to IDFA on inclusion of Russian films; festival responds
EDITORIAL
It is time for festivals to endorse a BRAVE space over a SAFE one
by: Dalia AlKury
What is this obsession with creating a «safe space» for upcoming film festivals that is now circulating on social media? Who is scaring the world's institutions to speak up?
FILMS
2G
IDFA
Director: Karim Sayad
Karim Sayad's 2G is an intimate portrait of former people smugglers from Niger.
Anqa
Porto/Post/Doc
Director: Helin Çelik
Three souls entwine in trauma's shadowed glades.
Landshaft
Porto/Post/Doc
Director: Daniel Kötter
The complex interplay of geopolitics, resource extraction, and the enduring spirit of a land and its people, post-Karabakh War.
Longing For Today
Movies on War
Director: Knut Erik Jensen
83-year-old Knut Erik Jensen is back with Longing for Today, a film that does not conform to the lineup of modern Norwegian blockbusters about World War II.
Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish
Porto/Post/Doc
Director: Ricardo Leite
Whatever happened to those who dreamed of space travel, wanting to be astronauts when they grew up?
The Driven Ones
IDFA
Director: Piet Baumgartner
The human cost of striving for success in a competitive global economy.
The Kyiv Files
IDFA
Director: Walter Stokman
A gripping exploration of Soviet-era paranoia and oppression in Ukraine.
They and Them
IDFA
Director: Ingrid Kamerling
The complexities of a Dutch gender clinic, from the challenges of young people facing gender transition to the role of experience-based experts, and the clinic's operational struggles.
INTERVIEW
Hip-hop’s half-century: from Bronx streets to global beats
Porto/Post/Doc and curator Guille de Juan celebrates hip-hop's transformative five decades.