The first town the festival is going to visit this year is Lublin.
2013-12-31
For
several years now we have been cooperating with students of the Marie
Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin who help with the translation
of films for the festival.
2013-12-30
This year’s WATCH DOCS audience award went to a British documentary No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka by Callum Macrae.
2013-12-13
The main award of the 13th International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film was given to the Iranian documentarian Nima Sarvestani for his No Burqas Behind Bars, which was shot in Afghanistan.
2013-12-12
The main award of the 13th International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film was given to the Iranian documentarian Nima Sarvestani for his No Burqas Behind Bars, which was shot in Afghanistan. The documentary can be watched online on www.kinoplex.pl.
2013-12-12
On Monday, WATCH DOCS audiences will have an opportunity to watch as many as four documentaries from our permanent section I Want to See: Zelim’s Confession documenting tortures experienced by a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia at the hands of the police; No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka revealing the shocking scale of a Sri Lankan genocide; How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a provoking documentary by Matthew Cooke; and The irresistible rise of Moïse Katumbi accompanied by a Q&A with the film’s director Thierry Michel.
Our viewers will also have a chance to take part in a discussion with Florence Martin-Kessler, the director of State Builders.
2013-12-09
The
www.lovethedoc.com website is a great source of information about the festival films. Every day on the blog there is a list of titles published, which according to the author one should see. This subjective guide to documentaries at the 13th WATCH DOCS might help the undecided in choosing which films are worth seeing on any given day.
2013-12-09
Parallel with the screenings in Warsaw’s cinemas, 13th WATCH DOCS films can also be watched online at www.kinoplex.pl.
2013-12-07
Today, on saturday, 7th December 2013, during the 13th edition of International
Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film there will be a master
class held with the recipient of this year’s Marek Nowicki Prize, the
master of contemporary documentary cinema – Maria Ramos.
2013-12-07