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Field Trip [dir: Eva Stotz]
INTERACTIVE: A former airfield, now one of the world’s largest urban parks, Tempelhof Field acts as one of the city’s most vibrant and juxtaposing locations.
Teslafy Me
BIOGRAPHY: Written out of textbooks, neglected by historians, Tesla's gifts are only now being recognised, Jana Glogovac's film argues. [director: Janja Glogovac]
The Forbidden Reel
CINEMA: Marked by violence and oppression, Afghanistan’s recent history, Ariel Nasr’s documentary shows the invaluable nature of cinema. [director: Ariel Nasr]
Angels on Diamond Street
POVERTY: Following the kitchen staff & guests of a North Philadelphia soup kitchen, Petr Lom's documentary sees firsthand what happens when an undocumented Mexican family asks for sanctuary in its church. [director: Petr Lom]
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory [dir: Mohanad Yaqubi]
PALESTINE: A Palestinian filmmaker has created an important documentary about his people’s troubled past by finding old footage considered lost.
This is Not a Movie
WAR REPORTER: For over 40 years, Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. [director: Yung Chang]
Nothing To Be Afraid Of
CONFLICT: 5 female de-miners look to clear the land of danger in the still disputed territory after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh [director: Silva Khnkanosian]
Solidarity [dir: Lucy Parker]
CONTROL: The determination of a community that comes together in the name of justice.
Dollar Heroes
NORTH KOREA: Why do UN sanctions fail to eradicate North Korea’s exploitative operations? [director: Carl Gierstorfer, Sebastian Weis]
Our Defeats
ACTIVISM: A humiliating police encounter instills a newfound attitude of dissent toward state control for a group of Parisian high school students. [director: Jean-Gabriel Périot]
The Panama Papers
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter's behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller. [director: Alex Winter]
The Ebb Tide [dir: Renu Savant]
ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India.
The Great Green Wall
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent. [director: Jared P Scott]
The Book of the Sea
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen. [director: Aleksei Vakhrushev]
The Sea of Shadows
ECOLOGY: The making of this film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and a rare species of mini whales. [director: Richard Ladkani]
A lifetime in film
IDFA: What can we say about the 2019 IDFA choice of Jørgen Leth (82) and Patricio Guzmán (78) for «Lifetime Achievement Award» and «Guest of Honor» respectively?
Ghandi’s method
PHILOSOPHY: Can traditions of brotherhood, friendship, and solidarity still be established amongst today's majorities?
On the tragic mafia
VENICE: The mafia and corruption have been the topics of several films at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, but why are so many people attracted to power, even if it is so notoriously corrupting?
Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
TRUTH: A new book on documentary practices post-9/11 begins with an often-repeated (idealistic) blaming of the media for the election of Trump, but develops into a complex analysis of how digital culture shapes our political realities [author: Kris Fallon]
Permanent Record
CONTROL: In his memoir, Edward Snowden reveals how he helped build the mass surveillance system and what his motivations were to bring it down [author: Edward Snowden]
Mediascapes
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape. [author: Ivan Bargna]
