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Doc Alliance
The Doc Alliance is a creative partnership of seven European documentary film festivals, including: CPH:DOX in Copenhagen; Doclisboa; Docs Against Gravity FF; DOK Leipzig; Marseille Festival of Documentary Film; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival; and Visions du Réel Nyon. The organisation is based in Prague and was founded in 2008, with the aim of promoting the documentary genre. It is financially supported by the European Union's Creative Europe programme, Czech Filmfund and the Czech Ministry of Culture. Its slogan is "the New Deal for Feature Documentaries". Distribution platform The main project of the Doc Alliance is DAFilms.com, an online distribution platform for documentary and experimental films focused on European cinema, which hosts around 1700 films for streaming or download. The films include archive historical films and works by international filmmakers such as Ulrich Seidl, Jorgen Leth, and Chris Marker. Doc Alliance Award The organisations a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instant Dreams
''Instant Dreams'' is a 2017 documentary directed by Dutch director Willem Baptist. It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 18 November 2017 where it screened at Tuschinski Amsterdam in the Dutch Documentary Competition and First Appearance Competition. On 14 December 2017 the film was theatrically released in the Netherlands and Belgium. Slamdance Film Festival hosted the American festival premiere on 21 January 2018 in Park City, Utah. April 2019 the film was theatrical released in the US and Canada, starting with select screenings in New York and Los Angeles. Film content ''Instant Dreams'' tells the story of those who eagerly await the rebirth of the classic and recognizable Polaroid photo, and of scientists who are trying to unravel the secrets of the chemical formula. The film features Stefanie Schneider – a free-spirited German artist who lives in a Polaroid picture-world out in the Californian desert, Christopher Bonanos - an editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doclisboa
Doclisboa is a documentary film festival in Lisbon, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... which held its first edition in 2002. In 2020, Doclisboa was organized into six moments of programme across six months, in order to deal with the pandemic restrictions while presenting its physical screenings in Lisbon's main venues. In 2021, the festival returned to its original, with a 11-day live format. The 19th edition took place between 21 an 31 October, with its original sections, featuring a total of 249 films. The winner of Best Film Award (International Competition) was 918 Nights, by Spanish director Arantza Santesteban. In 2022, the festival's 20th edition will be held from 6 to 16 October, welcoming films from all over the world, with its competitive and no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Fahdel
Abbas Fadhel (Arabic عباس فاضل) is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq. Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D. In January 2002, he returned to Iraq with a French passport and filmed a documentary film, ''Back to Babylon (film)'', in which he asked himself: "''What have my childhood friends become? How have their lives changed? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?''" The country's dramatic situation is the background of this introspective investigation. One year later, in February 2003, when a new war seems imminent, Abbas Fadhel returned to Iraq with the intention of filming his family and friends, and the superstitious hope of protecting them against the dangers threatening them. When the war started, he returned to France and lost all contact with his family. Two months later, he again returned to Iraq and discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebojša Slijepčević
Nebojša ( Cyrillic script: Небојша ) is a Slavic given name, meaning "fearless". People with the name include: In arts and entertainment *Nebojša Bradić (born 1956), Serbian theater director *Nebojša Glogovac (born 1969), award-winning Serbian actor *Nebojša Malešević (born 1983), Bosnian Serb fashion model *Nebojša Pajkić (born 1951), writer and professor of film dramaturgy In government and politics * Nebojša Čović, Ph.D. (born 1958), Serbian politician and businessman * Nebojša Kaluđerović (born 1955), Montenegrin politician and diplomat *Nebojša Koharović (born 1963), Croatian diplomat and the current Croatian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China * Nebojša Krstić (born 1957), Advisor of the President of Serbia for public relations * Nebojša Medojević (born 1966), politician in Montenegro * Nebojša Pavković (born 1946), former Chief of the General Staff of FRY *Nebojša Radmanović (born 1949), Bosnian Serb politician In sport Basketball * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margreth Olin
Margreth Olin Mykløen (often referred to as Margreth Olin, born April 16, 1970, in Stranda) is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. She is educated at the University of Bergen and Volda University College. She is best known for her documentaries, in which she highlights the weak in society. She has received many national and international awards for her work. Biography Olin made her directorial debut with the school production ''In the House of Love'' (1995). In 1998 her first full-length documentary ''In the House of Angels'' was released theatrically in Norway. It later received many awards, among them the Amanda for the best documentary. Her breakthrough came with the film ''My body'' which also won the Amanda. It won The Golden Chair and the Audience award at the Norwegian shortfilmfestival in Grimstad. ''My body'' created a big debate in the media. It won awards abroad where it participated at numerous festivals. Among them it was nominated and given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziad Kalthoum
Ziad (also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an Arabic given name and surname. Given name Actors * Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor Athletes * Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler * Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka * Zyad Chaabo, Syrian footballer * Ziad Jaziri, Tunisian football striker * Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter * Ziad Tlemçani, Tunisian footballer * Ziad Al-Muwallad, Saudi Arabian football defender * Ziad Agha, Palestinian rugby and rugby league player * Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender * Ziyad Al-Kord, Palestinian footballer * Ziyad Al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer * Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker Businessmen * Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker * Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor * Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer *Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Lebanese-born American investment ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kirchhoff
Robert Kirchhoff (born May 7, 1968) is a Slovak independent film director, producer, cinematographer, and scriptwriter. film/director profiles at Biography Robert Kirchhoff was born in , Slovakia. Between 1995 and 2000 he studied film directing at the , where he graduated as M.A. (2000), later as Art. Dr. (2006) and tenured associate ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Remunda
Filip Remunda (born 1973 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech film director, cinematographer and producer. He is best known for co-directing the 2004 documentary comedy ''Czech Dream'' ( cs, Český sen). Biography Remunda graduated from the documentary film department of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 2005, in the masterclass of Karel Vachek. His film, ''Village B.'', was named best documentary film at the 2002 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and at the 2003 FAMU Festival, and received the Don Quixote Award at the 2003 Art Film Trenčianske Teplice festival, as well as several other prizes at festivals in Europe and the United States. During his studies, Remunda also attended a workshop at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. Together with Vit Klusak he directed the comedy documentary feature ''Czech Dream'', and runs Hypermarket Film Ltd., an independent production company based in Prague. ''Czech Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaynê Akyol
Zaynê Akyol (born in 1987 in Turkey) is a Canadian filmmaker, producer and photographer. She predominantly focuses on documentary film and is known for her feature-length documentary film ''Gulîstan, Land of Roses '' (2016), which was supported by the National Film Board (NFB) and MitosFilm in Germany. Early life and education Zaynê Akyol was born in a village in Turkey during 1987 to Kurdish parents. The Peshmerga, Kurdish army would frequently visit her village and Akyol has described the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as being "part of my environment from a very early age". When she was four years old Akyol and her family moved to Canada, where they lived in Montreal, Quebec. She went on to attend Cégep Montmorency in Montreal for her pre-university education, after which she attended the University of Montreal for her bachelor's degree. Akyol found the program at the University of Montreal too theoretical for her, so she chose to transfer to the Université du Québec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulîstan, Land Of Roses
''Gulîstan, Land of Roses'' (French title: ''Gulîstan, terre de roses'') is a 2016 feature-length documentary film about women guerillas in a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Free Women's Units, Free Women's Unit, in combat against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, directed by the Kurdish Montreal filmmaker Zaynê Akyol. Shot in Iraqi Kurdistan, the film is co-produced Montreal's Périphéria Productions, Germany's Mehmet Aktaş, MitosFilm and the National Film Board of Canada. The film was conceived and named for a woman, Gulîstan, who had been a role model for the director in her adopted home in Montreal, until she left to fight with the PKK. Akyol went to Iraq in 2010 in an unsuccessful effort to find her and make a film about her. Unable to locate Gulîstan, she found women who knew her, and the focus of the documentary shifted to telling Gulîstan's story through their memories of her. However, when she returned to Iraq to film in 2014, some of the women had died, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liwaa Yazji
Liwaa Yazji, alternative spelling Liwaa Yazaji, (, born 1977 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Syrian filmmaker, playwright, TV screenwriter, dramaturge and poet. Her works, written in Arabic, have been translated into English and presented in the United Kingdom, the US and, in original Arabic versions, in Arab states. Early life and education Yazji was born to Syrian parents Haidar Yazaji (1946–2014), an artist, and Salwa Abdullah, who is a gynecologist and served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labour in the Syrian government from 2020 to 2021. Liwaa Yazji spent her early childhood years in Moscow, where her parents were completing their academic studies. The family returned to Syria in the early 1980s and stayed in the city of Aleppo for some years, before they moved to Damascus, where she finished her elementary, preparatory and secondary schooling. She then studied English literature, English Literature at Damascus University (1995–1998), and did her postgraduate diploma in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)
''Homeland: Iraq Year Zero'' is a 2015 documentary film written and directed by the Iraqi- French film director Abbas Fahdel. Synopsis Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion. Awards * Sesterce d'Or (Best Feature Film Award - International Competition), Festival Visions du réel, 2015 * Doc Alliance Selection Award, Locarno International Film Festival, 2015 * White Goose Award (Best Feature Film Award - International Competition), DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, 2015. * Award of Excellence (International Competition), and Citizens' Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2015. * Grand Prize and People's Choice Award, RIDM (Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal), 2015. * Silver Tanit, Carthage Film Festival, 2015. * Jury Prize, Milano Filmmaker Festival, 2015. * Public Award, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM), Mexico, 2016. See also *Cinema of Iraq *Iraqi culture The Culture of Iraq (Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
