Nisimazine
As we reach the end of One World Bratislava, talk in the Nisimazine office is turning to summarising the highlights of the week and the range of important issues tackled. From Burmese repression to the Arab Spring, from climate change to the fight for net neutrality – the programme has certainly offered a broad snapshot of current affairs.
Meanwhile, outside of the workshop bubble, it’s been hard not to notice a number of rapidly paced and mostly alarming developments going on in the world right now. One interesting thing about visiting a documentary festival is that you often end up watching related events unfolding in parallel moments in time – at the cinema and on news reports.
Given the ever shortening gap between the occurrence of events and their appearance on screen, I couldn’t help but wonder then about the potential titles to be found in near future editions of Jeden Svet. Next year, will we be deliberating over whether to go see The Collapse of the Eurozone, Bombs Over Tehran, or One Year of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? And will there be Q&As to enjoy after screenings of Putin’s Return, The Day the World Solved Climate Change, and Zuckerberg’s Downfall ?
As a non-believer of Mayan prophecies, I think that time will tell for a long while yet… and that documentary filmmakers will continue to bring us their insights in ever more innovative ways.
By Jude Lister
Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký & Miroslav Janek - Czech Republic
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Filmed over ten years and subsequently edited during almost five years, Citizen Havel constitutes one of the most challenging political biopic ever made in the documentary field. The fact that we are not dealing here with the head of a powerful nation, but simply the first President of a newly born country, the Czech Republic, that many would have difficulties to locate on the map (...) [Read more] |
Asghar Farhadi
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We are sitting with the modest and quiet talking Iranian director in the luxury lounge of the Fairmont festival centre. The fragile man in front of me almost disappears in the semidark room of mahogany and crystal design. He talks about A Separation, his award winning family drama on the Iranian middle class, that was selected for the Narrative Feature Competition of Abu Dhabi 2011. [Read more] |
The Resonance of Dictatorship
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| When it comes to the use of the media by dictators, it becomes especially interesting to see how activist filmmakers criticise it using one of its own weapons: film.
When playing a chord, one hears not only the characteristic tone, not only the fingers or sticks that come into contact with the (...) [Read more] |
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