My ne zgasnemo (We Will Not Fade Away) is the title of filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko’s newest documentary first screened at the Berlinale film festival in February 2023, one year after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film takes place in the Donbass, more precisely in Zolote-4 and the village of Stanytsia, near the frontline where Ukrainian military and Pro-Russian...

A solid contribution to the global documentary heritage is what Pascale Bourgaux with Hawar, Our Banished Children brought to the table in 2023. The horrors of the already-known story of the sexual enslavement of Yazidi women captured by Daesh jihadists, bring with them this time the necessary background perspective to understand the dilemma of the liberated women returning to their community...

Motherland is above everything – this is the idea, which goes through the whole documentary film – although the harsh picture we are shown completely mirrors the reality, too.

Throughout history, it has been clear that women's bodies belong to anyone but themselves.

The media is an institution that plays a serious role in the perpetuation of prejudice and discrimination against gender-variant people. [1] Documentary films serve as powerful mediums for storytelling, shedding light on various aspects of our world. One such intriguing documentary is Fairy Garden, Gergő Somogyvári’s documentary film that unveils the touching story of Fanni, a 19-year-old...

According to the article Labor Slavery, The 5 Countries Where This Situation Reigns published on the site El Comercio, labor exploitation occurs mainly in developing countries where labor rights are highly violated. [1] India occupies the first place in the list, that also contains China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. The fact that India is one of the countries with the highest rates of...

Taking a look at Goran Dević’s filmography, we can identify several works about collectives, local communities or specific social groups. What’s to Be Done? also depicts such a community, namely the leaders and the employees of the company Gredelj. Dević started shooting this documentary as a research material for a fiction feature, after he read the news about the suicide of the vice...

“In Germany they were called ‘Gastarbeiter’, i.e. guest workers. They were supposed to work in the country for a few years, to save money for their families, and then return home. Workers underwent rigorous health inspections (too demeaning for tourists), and they put up with this in order to earn money to pay for their wedding, to be able to buy a tractor, or to send wages back to their hometown...

Steffen Krones’s The North Drift presents an experiment in which we get the chance to follow a plastic bottle’s way from Dresden up until the North Pole. In this participatory [1] documentary we follow the director himself, setting up his project: building GPS buoys with his scientist friend, Paul to examine how the ocean currents carry the trash and litter such as plastic bottles, plastic bags...

1557. This is the number of journalists who have been killed worldwide since 1993. The UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists also reported that 55 journalists were killed in 2021.