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Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters is part of the Documentary Competition at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, a competition with a brief to recognise ‘feature-length documentaries with integrity, originality and social or cultural significance.’ Kanaval, directed by Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton Mills, certainly fulfils that brief. In a little... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/haiti/kanaval-three-centuries-o...

Find out who will be judging the LFF competitions this year.

The Zurich Film Festival enjoys great prestige in Hollywood. Spain is the guest country this year.

19/08/2022 - Mátyás Kálmán’s compassionate documentary follows a couple struggling to adjust to their new millionaire status

19/08/2022 - Mátyás Kálmán’s compassionate documentary follows a couple struggling to adjust to their new millionaire status

17/08/2022 - Thomas Fürhapter’s documentary shows the challenges of integration in Austria while celebrating its diversity

17/08/2022 - Thomas Fürhapter’s documentary shows the challenges of integration in Austria while celebrating its diversity

The heartwarming key to Joe Hunting’s inviting, humanistic documentary “We Met in Virtual Reality” is the utter lack of condescension he exhibits toward his subjects. Tracking a number of communities in VRChat, including several couples who met on the platform and now engage in long-distance relationships, Hunting focuses on the freedom these kaleidoscopic virtual worlds lend to their inhabitants.

The political debate over women's reproductive rights, particularly their freedom to choose whether to legally have an abortion, in America has become

17/06/2022 - The film by Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs has won Best International Narrative Feature; other European victors include Woman on the Roof and We Might as Well Be Dead