“The way you hug people in Kyiv is different,” Ukrainian film director Nadia Parfan tells me, her words speaking volumes about the fragility of life there at the moment. Rather than write volumes, this year Nadia has produced a documentary film about the war in Ukraine.
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You can say hi to the folks at interaction Leipzig at their winter party. Finally the pandemic has let up and is allowing the community to meet again. I hope you can also find kindred spirits and stimulating activities from among their offers.
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The DOK Leipzig Film Festival completely lived up to its great potential as the biggest documentary film festival in Europe. It boasted 246 films in the program and over 41 000 visitors, either digitally or in person. After a number of smaller DOKs, under more acute pandemic circumstances, DOK 2022 brought back the creatives around
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Peter Seaton-Clark made his international film debut a week ago with Uncharted, the box-office hit adaptation of the popular video game series. He was born in Barnstaple, England, and has been living in Leipzig with his wife, Nicola Seaton-Clark, since 2003. They have two children and two cats, Boris and Bagheera. Peter and Nicola are
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LeipGlo's Heiner combed through Netflix's wider catalog to find three of his absolute favorite films that somehow got on the platform without any noticing. Be sure to check them out to enjoy big cinema at home while we wait for Leipzig's Kinos to reopen.
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Our beloved DOK Leipzig festival is finally returning to Leipzig's cinemas. To celebrate, we put together a hand-picked selection of films we are most excited to see here on the silver screen. From Ghana to Poland and from rural Ukraine to rural Ethiopia, the DOK fest once again brings the world to our city.
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