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"From November 22, the international streaming platform DAFilms, curated by Doc Alliance, a creative partnership of seven European documentary film festivals, will launch No Short Cuts: The Films of Thomas Imbach, an online retrospective of ten works by the Swiss director. Born in Lucerne in 1962, Imbach first rose to prominence in the 1990s and has since developed a maverick reputation, not least through his perennial blurring of the traditional lines between documentary and fiction filmmaking."Film critic @AlanMattli says Imbach's range of topics and styles is probably the broadest in the Swiss film scene, and even his earlier films still resonate today. @DocAllianceFilm https://t.co/U3mc15OFBL
— swissinfo.ch (@swissinfo_en) November 22, 2021
"Lines are a bit of a theme at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. There are those you expect, greeting you in front of screening halls, pop-up food stands, restaurants and the wobbly information desks in the cramped festival center—all reminders that this quaint Czech town of 50,000 people was not built to play host to a film festival of international renown. Then there are lines of the less obvious sort, like the swirling white chalk marks on the pavement that connect the various festival locations—an act of 'environmental installation,' created annually since 2005 by local artist Vit Kraus using a sports line maker, which is meant to guide, and maybe also confound, visitors as they navigate the picturesque streets of Jihlava’s historic old town. And then there’s Lines the film, which deservedly emerged as the big winner of Jihlava.""all the trappings of a run-of-the-mill festival documentary—from faux-fly-on-the-wall narration to vaguely forlorn-seeming protagonists” nails a certain kind of current film. Strong report on Jihlava from @AlanMattli https://t.co/krfMwukUYV
— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) November 10, 2021
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