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CPH:DOX, the international nonfiction film festival in Copenhagen, isn't shy about stating its ambitions. "The long-term goal is to be the most important documentary festival in the world," says artistic director Niklas Engström. The 20th edition of the festival, which wrapped on Sunday, saw…

Motherland, a "dark and monumental" film about neo-nationalism in Belarus, earned the top prize tonight at the prestigious CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. Belorusian directors Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka accepted the Dox:Award honor at a ceremony at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the…

World class climber Jimmy Chin met his future wife, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi, over a mountain – of footage. He had been working for a number of years on the documentary that would become Meru, the story of an attempt by Chin and his fellow alpinists and friends Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk to…

Oscar winner and Academy member Roger Ross Williams is saying publicly what many in the documentary community have stewed over privately – that the sums of money being spent on Oscar documentary campaigns has "gotten insane." And Williams, a former Academy Governor representing the Doc Branch, says…

Whenever the Iranian regime feels threatened by public protest its reflex is to go after two groups: demonstrators, most assuredly, but also artists – especially filmmakers. When protests surged in six provinces in May last year over rising food prices, the government promptly banged on the doors of…

Imagine not only believing the world is coming to an end, but wanting it to happen. Eagerly. Then, take it a step further and imagine people with such a mentality engineering American politics and foreign policy to bring about the very thing they seek — the apocalypse. It may sound outlandish, but…

In 1967 French thinker Guy Debord published an influential philosophical treatise, La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle), which argued that we had become a society of images, in which representation had replaced authentic experience and interaction. He argued that this development…

EXCLUSIVE: On a corner of a street in the burgeoning city of Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province, a club called Funky Town became a "sanctuary for underground partying,” attracting a diverse crowd of young DJs, drag performers, "lovers, ravers, and skaters," and others. Funky Town and a vibrant…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Nick Faldo, and Aaron Judge are among the elite professional athletes who have benefitted from working with a sports psychologist. Now some esports stars are catching onto the idea. Canadian sales agent Syndicado has acquired worldwide rights to The Gamer, a…

EXCLUSIVE: What Citizenfour did for the NSA's domestic espionage program in the U.S. – exposing it for the world to see — the documentary Phantom Parrot may do for a top-secret surveillance program in the U.K. The film directed by Kate Stonehill, which makes its world premiere at the prestigious…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a fun-looking first trailer for Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, a feature documentary about arcade gaming that is set to play Denmark's CPH:DOX and Canada's HotDocs. The film follows Kim Cannon Arm, Denmark's uncrowned king of 1980s arcade games. Together with his friends he sets out to break the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first trailer for Gorki Glaser-Müller's Children Of The Enemy, which is set to world premiere at Danish documentary festival CPH:DOX. The festival runs April 21 – May 2. The film depicts how Patricio Galvez’ daughter married one of Sweden’s most notorious ISIS terrorists. In 2014, they joined the…