Film about Indonesia wins Dutch documentary award
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"The shape of the moon," a film about the impact of political and social upheaval on an Indonesian family by Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich, won top honours at the Amsterdam IDFA documentary festival.
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A look at Oscar contenders in the Best Documentary Film category.
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Documentary filmmakers  Douglas Gordon and Phlippe Parreno saw it coming.
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A film about the prisoner abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq will become the first documentary to enter the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival when it is shown next month, Agence France-Presse reported. Made by the Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (âThe Fog of Warâ), above, the documentary, âStandard Operating Procedure,â uses film, re-enactments and photographs that were published around the world to shed light on the treatment of inmates. Twenty-one films will vie for awards during the 58th Berlin film festival, running Feb. 7-17.
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Sept. 20 -- An auction of rights to name 10 newly discovered species of fish raised more than $2 million for conservation efforts in eastern Indonesia on Thursday night, setting a record for an event of its type.
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Documentaries stole  the show at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend.
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Chinese movie "Tuya's Marriage", which explores the environmental and human cost of the country's rapid economic growth through the lives of Mongolian herders, won the Berlin film festival's top honor on Saturday.
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"The Lives of Others," a drama about how  East Germany's Stasi security police shattered the lives of  ordinary people, won top prize at the European Film Awards on  Saturday held in Poland's capital.
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A drama about the killing of maverick  Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn directed by the outspoken  filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was himself murdered last month  screened for the first time Sunday amid heavy security.
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TORONTO  - Documentary filmmakers   Douglas Gordon and Phlippe Parreno saw it coming.
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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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Mythical tales abound of a race of little people that dwell on the islands of Indonesia. Dutch explorers who colonized Flores 100 years ago were told stories of a human-like creature local
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An enthralling documentary follows the Afghan politician Malalai Joya through the final months of campaigning for her countryâs National Assembly in 2005.
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Jonathan Holmesâs âFallujahâ is the latest entrant in the growing canon of documentary theater that concentrates on Iraq.
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The Netherlands said Thursday it has ratified an accord to open to a long-secret archive of Nazi death camp records in Germany, another step toward giving scholars access to a vast collection of historically invaluable Holocaust documents.
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"United 93," a tense drama focusing on  one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks,  won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film  Critics Circle Awards.
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Chinese entry "Tuya's Marriage", about a woman who struggles to support her family on the wind-swept steppes of Inner Mongolia, won the Berlin film festival's top honor on Saturday.