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The Power of Narrative Language in Documentary Filmmaking  — Selected examples

Stories created from scratch on an equal footing with fiction, collages of time fragments; juggling formats, frame widths, film colors; building bridges between the past and the present, searching for the truth about people, society, and eras. Documentary filmmakers continue to surprise us, filtering stories already told by fate through their own sensibilities and needs. Here are a few of this year’s titles that seduce us with their creativity, freshness, and courage, all of which are both narrative and formal. (…)

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Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin : Call for entries, until July 31, 2020

The call for entries for Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2021 is still open until July 31, 2020. A major event dedicated to contemporary practices of moving image, the next Rencontres Internationales will be held in Paris in February 2021. The event offers every year a curated international program gathering works by internationally renowned artists and filmmakers, along with works by young artists shown for the first time.

Film, video, multimedia

Any individual or organization can submit one or several proposals. The call for entries is open to film, video and multimedia submissions, there is no restriction for length nor genre. Submission is free, regardless of geographical origin. Submitted works must be produced within the last two years, and must not yet have been publicly shown in Paris and Île-de-France Region.
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