In ‘Homesick,’ a Director Explores Belonging as an Adoptee From Korea and Breaks the Silence About the Dark Sides of Living in “a Random Family”

In ‘Homesick,’ a Director Explores Belonging as an Adoptee From Korea and Breaks the Silence About the Dark Sides of Living in “a Random Family”

What is family? What are home and belonging? Who gets to decide about how those concepts apply to us? And what makes a good and a bad family or home? Those are some of the questions you will find yourself thinking about and struggling with when you watch director Taekyung Tanja Inwol’s (A Colombian Family)…

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Systemic Racism, AI Bias, Dark Rooms, Trump, a Memorial for Gaza and More: Welcome to ‘Hypervigilance,’ CPH:DOX’s Inter:Active Showcase

Systemic Racism, AI Bias, Dark Rooms, Trump, a Memorial for Gaza and More: Welcome to ‘Hypervigilance,’ CPH:DOX’s Inter:Active Showcase

For those ready to explore and experience creativity at its intersection with technology, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), is offering a space full of curiosity: its Inter:Active Exhibition at the Danish capital’s Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It features a curated selection of immersive experiences, educational games, VR offerings, and anything else that doesn’t neatly fit into our traditional…

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Oscar Isaac’s Wife Filmed Him Playing Hamlet. A Decade Later, He Barely Recognizes Himself

Oscar Isaac’s Wife Filmed Him Playing Hamlet. A Decade Later, He Barely Recognizes Himself

Oscar Isaac and his wife, director Elvira Lind (Bobbie Jene), made a splash in Copenhagen on Wednesday evening with the international premiere of King Hamlet at the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, or  CPH:DOX, followed by a warm Q&A with the hometown crowd. Lind’s film, which she shot a decade ago, is a deeply personal…

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‘Something Familiar’ Director on Her Very Personal Hybrid Doc About Overcoming Trauma and Giving Herself “the Gift of the Archetypal Mother”

‘Something Familiar’ Director on Her Very Personal Hybrid Doc About Overcoming Trauma and Giving Herself “the Gift of the Archetypal Mother”

Rachel Taparjan is a British Romanian filmmaker and academic in North East England, working as a senior lecturer in social work at Teesside University. In her film work, she has directed documentary shorts, but on Tuesday, March 17, she will world premiere her debut feature in the main competition of the 23rd edition of Copenhagen…

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‘The Secret Reading Club of Kabul’ Follows Young Afghan Women, Inspired by Anne Frank, Defying the Taliban: “They Want to Be Heard and Seen”

‘The Secret Reading Club of Kabul’ Follows Young Afghan Women, Inspired by Anne Frank, Defying the Taliban: “They Want to Be Heard and Seen”

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, or speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle And inspired by Anne Frank’s experiences in 1940s Amsterdam, they start to write their own diaries. For these women, a dystopia is reality. Now, they are…

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‘Amazomania’ Reexamines a Decades-Old Film About the First Contact Made With the Korubo Tribe in Brazil and the “White Man’s Gaze”

‘Amazomania’ Reexamines a Decades-Old Film About the First Contact Made With the Korubo Tribe in Brazil and the “White Man’s Gaze”

A hazardous expedition to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, filmed in 1996, becomes a cultural and moral minefield in Amazomania, a thought-provoking documentary in which Swedish director Nathan Grossman (I Am Greta, Climate in Therapy) explores the white man’s gaze and turns the camera on colonial legacy and the film itself. The doc, world premiering…

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