Tue Steen Müller, film-critic, co-founder of the several Film- and TV-Festival, tutor on training programs from Denmark made his list of this year best documentaries.
A year has passed. I have seen films at festivals and in cinemas around Europe and in the US. I have seen films at home via links sent to me, thanks to many for their generosity. 2014 was a great year for the creative documentary, the one where there is an artistic ambition and a personal interpretation of the world we live in. I know it is "normal" in games like this to go by 10 or 25, but when I had my list of 16 I found it impossible to cut away, so you get 16 from me, below in alphabetical order, and in most cases you can click and get to a review. Photos have been chosen from films that I have not written about - here 20,000 Days on Earth by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, UK.
Alphabetical order:
1989 by Anders Østergaard and Erzsebet Racz, Denmark/Hungary
20,000 Days on Earth by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, UK
Alentejo Alentejo by Sergio Tréfaut, Portugal
Citizen Four by Laura Poitras, Germany/US
Democrats by Camilla Nielsson, Denmark
Garden Lovers by Virpi Suutari, Finland
Judgement in Hungary by Eszter Hajdu, Hungary
Les Règles du Jeu by Claudine Bories and Patrick Chagnard, France
Mitch by Damir Cucic & Misel Skoric, Croatia
Of Men and War by Laurent Bécue-Renard, France
Olga by Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic
Pelican in the Desert by Viesturs Kairiss, Latvia
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait by Wiam Simav Bedirxan & Ossama Mohammed, Syria
Teatime by Maite Alberti, Chile (photo)
The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark
The Salt of the Earth by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France