Derek vs Derek

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NATURE: In the English countryside, a clash between industrial dairy farming and ecological restoration becomes an unexpectedly moving reflection on extinction and land use.
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The Cord

HEALTHCARE: In The Cord, Nolwenn Hervé follows a community worker helping pregnant women survive Venezuela’s shattered healthcare system, while a possible birth house shaped by Wayúu ancestral knowledge opens onto another vision of care.
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Arctic Link

NATURE: The arrival of broadband to remote Alaskan islands unfolds here as a meditation on civilisation itself, where maritime craft, industrial process, and post-industrial connectivity are woven into one fragile but far-reaching chain.
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Industry news

DOK.fest München 2026 unveils full programme for 41st edition

DOK.fest München has unveiled the full programme for its 41st edition, with 106 documentaries...

TIDF 2026 spotlights wartime memory and social upheaval through two Taiwan-focused programmes

The Taiwan International Documentary Festival has unveiled two major curated sections for its 2026...

Sunny Side of the Doc unveils first 2026 speakers as market pressures intensify

Sunny Side of the Doc has announced the first keynote and session speakers for...

Doclisboa’s Nebulae names Greece as 2026 focus country

Nebulae, the industry and networking platform of Doclisboa, will welcome Greece as the invited...

Green Film Award 2026 unveils nominees across short and feature categories

Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2026 reveals gull programme

Baltic Sea Docs opens call for projects for 30th edition

goEast 2026 expands documentary focus across competition and shorts

Latest film reviews

80 Angry Journalists

JOURNALISM: As political and institutional pressure tightens around Hungary’s largest independent news outlet, a newsroom is pushed from exhaustion into collective rupture.

Open My Mind

DRUGS: Set against Switzerland’s unusually progressive therapeutic framework, a personal account of psychedelic treatment unfolds as both self-exposure and self-repair.

Replica

AI: In Replica, women turn to AI partners for comfort, affirmation, and emotional refuge, exposing the social and psychological conditions that make such attachments possible.

Death of Death

MORTALITY: A witty and unsettling journey through cryonics, anti-ageing science, and transhumanist fantasy, Death of Death explores the growing pursuit of immortality while exposing the inequality and power that may shape who gets to outlive death.

The Voices That Defy the Kremlin

RUSSIA: In today’s Russia, even the smallest act of dissent can end in disappearance.

Sentient

ANIMAL RIGHTS: A troubling and emotionally exposed documentary, revisiting the long history of primate experimentation through the voices of those who carried it out.

Something Familiar

FAMILY: A search for a birth family becomes a nuanced meditation on trauma, shared fates, loss, and self-authorship.

American Doctor

GAZA: Following three American physicians in and beyond Gaza, 'American Doctor' confronts genocide, media legibility, and the ever-collapsing distance between war and domestic responsibility.

Editorials, comments & essays

Commentary

Who owns the truth machine? Documentary and AI at CPH:INDUSTRY SUMMIT 2026

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The question organising CPH:INDUSTRY SUMMIT 2026 was an institutional one, bearing directly on the material arrangements through which documentary authority is produced. Each attended...
Commentary

From affect to effect, impact producing as practice at FIFDH Impact Days 2026 webinar

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FIFDH: Geneva’s FIFDH 2026 Impact Days webinar explores impact producing for social justice, with insights on turning audience affect into measurable effect through strategy, community accountability, and the right team.
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Pitch@Moldox: building a documentary pipeline in Chișinău

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MOLDOVA: MOLDOX’s Pitch@Moldox 2025 turns emerging Moldovan docs into European-ready projects, from healthcare breakdown to VHS memory, war-scarred identity and landfill soundscapes.
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Letters, tomatos, babushkas: Moldovan documentary in the transnational era

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From migration to memory to bodily autonomy, six Moldox «Green Vine» films reveal how Moldova’s documentary culture is now defining itself.
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Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime

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GAZA: On Francesca Albanese' fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.
Commentary

Baltic Sea Docs 2025: Cats on the Rooftops, Docs in the Villa

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BALTIC SEA DOCS: From war testimonies to playful experiments, BSD 2025 showed why Riga’s compact forum punches above its weight in Europe’s doc market landscape.

Book reviews

Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

POLITICS: From Occupy to Gaza solidarity, waves of mobilisation have filled streets and screens without forcing structural change. What happens when politics becomes expression rather than strategy?

The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

POWER: If the West is guilty, does that make its rivals emancipatory? Moving from Iran and Venezuela to Palestine, Ukraine, Cuba, and China, the real conflict is no longer West versus Rest, but between those who rule and those who are ruled.

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

CLIMATE: A provocative look at who pays for warming, from migrants in extreme heat to communities in disaster zones, and why billionaire lifestyles matter.

The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

GAZA: A Haaretz columnist’s blistering case against permanent war.

If I Must Die

GAZA: Refaat Alareer’s life under siege in Gaza, his viral poem If I Must Die, and a case for words as resistance when the world refuses to listen.

Vulture

JOURNALISM: A savage novel punctures war correspondent hero myths, exposing careerism, entitlement, and the fixer who does the real work.

Hostage

ISRAEL: Eli Sharabi’s testimony traces war’s exhaustion and a hard truth that everyone is trapped.

Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY: Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology reframes Fanon, Biko, and others, arguing for truth-seeking Black knowledge beyond Western foundations.

Interviews

«We need a different appreciation of culture in society»

INTERVIEW: Laurens Korteweg discusses Movies That Matter 2026, financial pressure, Dutch cultural cuts, and the challenge of sustaining a human rights festival.
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«No audience is braver than people who come to documentaries»

INTERVIEW: CPH:DOX Head of Programme Niklas Engstrøm speaks to Modern Times Review about the 2026 festival, democratic dialogue, film curation, and documentary form.
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CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE 2026: Hypervigilance politics

INTERVIEW: Mark Atkin discusses CPH:DOX INTER:ACTIVE 2026, the «hypervigilance» theme, embodied storytelling, and the distribution barrier facing immersive art.
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