Next weekend, the village of Ménerbes, in the Luberon region of Provence, will host the first edition of the Dora Maar Film Festival, a new event dedicated to artistic documentaries.
From August 29th to 31st, the festival, co-founded by Natasha Bhatia and Lucy Darwin, is organized in partnership with the Centre Culturel Dora Maar. Rooted in the legacy of the surrealist artist who lived and worked in Ménerbes, this first edition showcases documentaries about photography and photographers, highlighting the role of images in the construction of history, memory, and identity.
The program features six films, including the French premiere of Margy Kinmonth’s War Paint: Women at War, as well as Raoul Peck’s Cannes-award-winning Ernest Cole: Lost & Found, which reveals a long-forgotten archive documenting apartheid in South Africa. Other highlights include Capturing Lee Miller, Sabine Weiss: A Century of Photography, Dora Maar : Entre ombre et lumière, and Lee Shulma’s I Am Martin Parr.
More information at: https://dmff.org/
