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DOK Leipzig 2008 in the media
"DOK Leipzig is now the metropolis of documentary film." Who wrote that? Read it here:
“… no lack of strong and stirring pictures.“
FAZ
“This DOK Leipzig 2008 film programme was explosive, spectacular, thrilling and, to the surprise of everyone concerned, a real audience favourite from the start.”
Günter Agde in Neues Deutschland about „Afghanistan – Interior Views”
“Not the least of Claas Danielsen’s achievements is to have turned Leipzig into an international meeting point for the industry: producers, commissioning editors and distributors are to ensure that documentary films will not only be shown at festivals.”
Neues Deutschland
“It is a small miracle. There is a festival that stands up for a free mind, free speech and human dignity, and has done so for more than 50 years all through the period of the GDR, illustrated by artistic and ambitious moving images – and that is DOK Leipzig.”
Prinz
“What stays with you are those rare moments of bliss which the Leipzig documentary film festival bestows again and again.”
Sächsische Zeitung
“At a good festival, it’s not just cinema lovers who enter into a dialogue; it’s the films, too.”
Berliner Zeitung
“Imaginative, stirring, personal, thrilling, political…“
Dresdner Morgenpost
“The first year after the 50th anniversary edition seemed quite solid. (…) There are more and more signs that things which belong together are finally coming together: the two sections of the two-genre festival which have been running parallel to each other for a long time.”
schnitt.de
“If you can’t think of anything but dry rehashes of history and boring „customs and culture” documentaries when you hear the term documentary film, you have never been to the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.”
Leipziger Internet-Zeitung
“Leipzig is now the metropolis of documentary film.“
BILD
“We have rarely seen so many authentic testimonies and images from distant, enigmatic and crisis-ridden countries in these parts.”
Die Welt
“After the overwhelming success of its 50th anniversary edition, Leipzig in 2008 stays true to itself as the Leipzig of cinema lovers who have their own mind and know how to use it.”
Melodie & Rhythmus
“Anyone still dumb enough to talk of the ‘former’ GDR is in for a wallop over the head – if possible with the weighty tome of the catalogue that lists all 315 films from 50 countries.”
Junge Welt
“Wherever you went at the festival you saw young Afghan filmmakers involved in ceaseless discussions. Passionate people!”
Junge Welt
“Maybe audiences in Europe are tired of the reports they see on BBC, ZDF or CNN and have therefore found their ways into the cinemas.”
8 Soup, Kabul
“This year’s films were obviously made by directors who have already found their own style and are now proving their courage and joy of experimentation with their films while they don’t shy away from making clear statements.”
Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten
“Once more in 2008, Dok Leipzig introduced us to unknown worlds – in the best sense of the word – with their exciting selection of documentary and animated films from all nations, while bringing together cinema lovers and filmmakers in a hospitable city.”
stralau.in-berlin.de
“Addictive concentrated realism on film: Every year for a few days in autumn, a busy international cinema flair spreads through the city of Leipzig.”
Kreuzer
“It’s the way it is. After all, documentary films show life. As it is. Warts and all.”
LVZ
FAZ
“This DOK Leipzig 2008 film programme was explosive, spectacular, thrilling and, to the surprise of everyone concerned, a real audience favourite from the start.”
Günter Agde in Neues Deutschland about „Afghanistan – Interior Views”
“Not the least of Claas Danielsen’s achievements is to have turned Leipzig into an international meeting point for the industry: producers, commissioning editors and distributors are to ensure that documentary films will not only be shown at festivals.”
Neues Deutschland
“It is a small miracle. There is a festival that stands up for a free mind, free speech and human dignity, and has done so for more than 50 years all through the period of the GDR, illustrated by artistic and ambitious moving images – and that is DOK Leipzig.”
Prinz
“What stays with you are those rare moments of bliss which the Leipzig documentary film festival bestows again and again.”
Sächsische Zeitung
“At a good festival, it’s not just cinema lovers who enter into a dialogue; it’s the films, too.”
Berliner Zeitung
“Imaginative, stirring, personal, thrilling, political…“
Dresdner Morgenpost
“The first year after the 50th anniversary edition seemed quite solid. (…) There are more and more signs that things which belong together are finally coming together: the two sections of the two-genre festival which have been running parallel to each other for a long time.”
schnitt.de
“If you can’t think of anything but dry rehashes of history and boring „customs and culture” documentaries when you hear the term documentary film, you have never been to the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.”
Leipziger Internet-Zeitung
“Leipzig is now the metropolis of documentary film.“
BILD
“We have rarely seen so many authentic testimonies and images from distant, enigmatic and crisis-ridden countries in these parts.”
Die Welt
“After the overwhelming success of its 50th anniversary edition, Leipzig in 2008 stays true to itself as the Leipzig of cinema lovers who have their own mind and know how to use it.”
Melodie & Rhythmus
“Anyone still dumb enough to talk of the ‘former’ GDR is in for a wallop over the head – if possible with the weighty tome of the catalogue that lists all 315 films from 50 countries.”
Junge Welt
“Wherever you went at the festival you saw young Afghan filmmakers involved in ceaseless discussions. Passionate people!”
Junge Welt
“Maybe audiences in Europe are tired of the reports they see on BBC, ZDF or CNN and have therefore found their ways into the cinemas.”
8 Soup, Kabul
“This year’s films were obviously made by directors who have already found their own style and are now proving their courage and joy of experimentation with their films while they don’t shy away from making clear statements.”
Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten
“Once more in 2008, Dok Leipzig introduced us to unknown worlds – in the best sense of the word – with their exciting selection of documentary and animated films from all nations, while bringing together cinema lovers and filmmakers in a hospitable city.”
stralau.in-berlin.de
“Addictive concentrated realism on film: Every year for a few days in autumn, a busy international cinema flair spreads through the city of Leipzig.”
Kreuzer
“It’s the way it is. After all, documentary films show life. As it is. Warts and all.”
LVZ
