Brussels, 01/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - From 8-14 June, the Millennium International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels will focus on the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDG), decided upon in September 2000. This is the third such festival and will feature four dozen documentaries, 16 of which have been entered for a competition, taking a new look at the multifarious aspects of work to tackle poverty. The documentaries by independent film-makers provide an overview of the question through stories, personal meetings against the backdrop of global politics or at the opposite extreme, in people's homes. As shown by a documentary on a remote African tribe previously isolated from the rest of the world (Shooting with Mursi, by Ben Young) or cooperation between the US Army and academia in preparing soldiers to go to war (Human Train, by James Der Derian), most of the subjects addressed match the international perspective of the festival and its desire to illustrate the urgent need to provide answers to meet the eight MDGs, which are supposed to be met by 2015. The festival includes a seminar on great documentary-makers and conferences on the mushrooming of new media and the new role played by documentary films. (J.K./transl.fl)