Author: Stephen Dalton

Director Dominique Cabrera’s investigation of her family connections to Chris Marker’s landmark sci-fi film ‘La Jetée’ takes a messy but sporadically magical mystery tour though history, memory, cinema and politics.

In her fascinating and visually dazzling debut feature ‘Balomania’, documentary maker Sissel Morell Dargis embeds herself in Brazil’s secretive underground subculture of illegal hot air balloon gangs.

The 67th edition of DOK Leipzig festival promises a week of pop and politics, critical debate and constructive disagreement in fiercely divided times.

A quietly angry film about suicidal Indian farmers and the women they leave behind, documentary director Kinshuk Surjan’s feature debut ‘Marching in the Dark’ is moving, lyrical and surprisingly uplifting.

Tomasz Wolski’s found-footage documentary ‘A Year in the Life of the Country’ paints a playful, freewheeling collage portrait of Communist Poland during martial law and the birth of Solidarity.