Every war is different, but all wars are somehow alike. That paradox is rarely a primary topic, but can be read between the lines of a multitude of war-themed documentaries that usually follow the same pattern.
The Belgian documentarist Kristof Bilsen tackles a multitude of dualities in his newest feature-length work Mother. The film deals with topics of sickness and health, caring and being cared for, East and West, parents and children and is centered around a nursing home in North Thailand
You might think to know what an igloo is until you’ve seen the short psycho-thriller I’ll End Up In Jail by the Canadian director Alexandre Dostie, freshly screened at the Sundance Film Festival and currently showing in Clermont-Ferrand.
That the oppressed can be oppressors in specific life situations is a reality illustrated in Zamo Mkhwanazi’s short film Sadla that was screened in the World Narrative Shorts Competition at the Sundance Film Festival
Consuelo Salas narrates her testimony about her daughter’s disappearance and death in a calm and collected fashion in the short documentary The Birthmark directed by Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen and Bernhard Hetzenauer.
