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Nov 14, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Egle Vertelyte

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Nov 13, 2024 | dmovies.org | Mariano Garcia |Mariano García |Egle Vertelyte

Horror movies can make our hearts race, but real life can be a lot scarier. Documentaries show real mysteries, terrible crimes, and strange events that stick with you. This guide lists the creepiest documentaries for those who want more than fiction. Let’s take a dive!…. 1. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012):Indonesian death squad leaders from the 1960s massacres take center stage in this riveting film.

Nov 13, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victoria Luxford |Nicolas Dozol |Egle Vertelyte

Actor, writer, director and producer Nicolas Dozol studied cinema at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français (CLCF). He has since directed 10 short films, and released his debut feature Last Party (which he also wrote and produced) earlier this year at the Chelsea Film Festival. Victoria Luxford, who interviews him, describes Dozol’s latest creation as a film with “a lot of ambition, turning the high school/teen drama on its head”.

Sep 28, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Egle Vertelyte |Nicolas Dozol

Based on the eponymous novel by Li Xiuwen, Bound in Heaven takes place in Chinese cities of Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing. during the early teens of this century. The landscape is unforgivingly urban, with a succession of skyscrapers offering the two leads very little respite. This is a country growing taller and faster than its inhabitants, who often struggle to find a meaning to their increasingly menial and anonymous existence.

May 26, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Egle Vertelyte |Nicolas Dozol

This is a movie in stark contrast to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes just last year (the event’s second highest prize). Both movies deal with the Holocaust, and both are based on a novel (in this case, one written by Jean-Claude Grumberg). Glazer’s film is a bleak and tragic endeavour, without any possibility of hope and redemption, and also without any visual representations of the horrors that the Nazies carried out (the focus is on sound instead).