Herz Frank on documentarists

The first rule of a documentary filmmaker is: Have the patience to observe life!

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Freelance film critic and hardcore cinephile.

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Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Dalibor Matanić makes a different post-traumatic approach of the Yugoslav wars as love has to stand in front of any inter-ethnic conflicts.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

A film of marginal pairs’ balance that move among realism and fantasy, hope and disillusionment, justice and injustice, heterosexuality and homosexuality, AIDS and life.

A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20

Friend Request is trying to deal in the most detached way with the unsolved and crucial problems that the Middle East faces.

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

A different coming-of-age drama directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's poems.

Über die Jahre (Over the Years) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates his magnum opus as he observes the financial and personal downfall of the rural post-industrial Austria during an extended 10-year period.

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Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

Über die Jahre (Over the Years) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions

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André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

TV vs. Cinema by Jean-Luc Godard

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