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Picturing War (2015)

Picturing War poster
Directed by
Konstantin Flemig
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary about how images of war are produced and used. It looks at conflicts in places like Iraq, Syria and Rwanda through the work of photographers and filmmakers.

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What happens

Picturing War is a 2016 documentary film, directed by Konstantin Flemig. It was shot in Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria, Rwanda, as well as in Germany, France and the Netherlands. Its original German title is BilderKrieg. The film was produced by German public broadcaster SWR and will be aired in late 2016. It played a successful festival run in 2016 and won the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award for best Student Feature Documentary as well as the Special Mention Award at the International Open Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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