54 min EP 153 · mei 21 Autobiographical Cinema: Why We Love to Film Ourselves Long before phones turned every life into footage, a small line of filmmakers was already pointing the camera at themsel…
48m EP 134 · jan 15 2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films 2000 Metres to Andriivka is an extraordinary and deeply immersive war documentary. The latest film from Ukrainian direct…
36m EP 116 · sep 4 The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a film made in the urgency of the present. Composed through a ser…
35m EP 102 · apr 2 De Propagandist: Dutch History’s Most Controversial Filmmaker (Luuk Bouwman) Dutch Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen was once one of the most powerful—and now largely forgotten—figures in Dutch cinem…
36m EP 92 · jan 21 Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025) A fearless voice against systemic injustice, Raoul Peck has crafted a body of work that interrogates the legacies of col…
30m EP 90 · jan 9 Why No Other Land is the Most Important Film of 2025 In a village under constant threat of displacement, where homes and schools are torn down and the land is slowly seized,…
28m EP 88 · dec 10 Mati Diop on Dahomey (2024) When 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Republic of Benin) would finally be returned from France…
23m EP 87 · dec 3 Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries (2024) Trigger warning: Please be advised that this episode includes discussions about sexual violence. In this powerful episod…
31m EP 78 · sep 5 David Hinton on Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (2024) After his 1980s collaboration with legendary filmmaker Michael Powell on a documentary chronicling Powell’s career, dire…
27m EP 73 · jun 20 The Ross Brothers on Gasoline Rainbow (2023) Collectively known as The Ross Brothers, Bill and Turner Ross are utterly unique in their approach to filmmaking. In a c…
26m EP 54 · sep 8 How to Save a Dead Friend (2022): A Conversation with Marusya Syroechkovskaya Set against the rise of Russia's authoritarian regime, filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya paints an homage to both a…
45m EP 50 · mei 5 Future Frames: A Conversation with Razan Hassan For the final Future Frames episode, filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus talks with fellow filmmaker and good friend Razan Hassa…
21m EP 34 · okt 25 Nobu, Baba & Henk (2022): A Conversation with Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno Directors Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno join to discuss their short trilogy of non-traditional immigrant story of fathers.…
23m EP 29 · jul 14 Fire of Love (2022): A Conversation with Sara Dosa Here to discuss the mesmerising nature of volcanoes captured through the lens of Katia & Maurice Krafft, director Sa…
21m EP 23 · apr 26 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021): A Conversation with Björn Andrésen Once proclaimed the most beautiful boy in the world by Italian director Luchino Visconti, former teen star Björn Andrése…
38m EP 04 · apr 8 Documentary Ethics (with Miriam Guttmann) We are delighted to welcome Miriam Guttmann, director of the recent VPRO documentary Seeds of Deceit (Het Zaat Van Karba…