Personal traumas, private vices and family secrets are shown more and more openly on prime time television. Exhibitionism? Therapy? Television has definetily broken the boundaries between the public sphere and private matters. How is public service television handling this new reality? What is the right distance directors should take? How can personal dramas be placed in the context of a social issue? Let´s go through those three documentaries.
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Crimes of the Heart is a provocative point of view documentary about the filmmaker's exploration of adultery. Writer, producer & director John Haslett Cuff… -
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Kathrine has lived in Denmark for 50 years. She was sent from Greenland to Denmark at the age of 7 and was raised in a danish foster family. She trained as a… -
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When Sengül Güvercile was 14 years old, her secret boyfriend was killed by her family, because the relationship outraged the family honour. In this…