The Book of the Sea [dir: Aleksei Vakhrushev]
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.
MakeDox 2019
«It is freedom of speech put in practice»
MAKEDOX: On a mission to share and promote creative documentary films and art, MakeDox celebrates its 10th edition.
The Journey – A Story of Love [dir: Fanny Bräuning]
HEALTH: A deeply intimate film, telling the story of a life together that has weathered all crises.
Forman vs. Forman [dir: Helena Třeštíková]
CINEMA: There is a part of Miloš Forman in each of his films.
The Disappearance of My Mother [dir: Beniamino Barrese]
FEMINISIM: Once an iconic fashion model, now a radical feminist, Benedetta Barzini and son clash to capture her lasting image of liberation.
Swatted/Black Bus Stop [dir: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena Harold]
VIENNA SHORTS: Two short documentaries from Vienna Shorts representing two distinct sides of the modern human experience, one digital and one all too real.
Gods of Molenbeek [dir: Reetta Huhtanen]
CHILDHOOD: Aatos and Amine are deep thinkers, bright and curious. We follow the life of these two six-year-olds in Molenbeek – a multi-ethnic suburb in Brussels – discovering different ways of thinking about god(s) and pondering about life and its aftermath.
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Talking About Trees [dir: Suhaib Gasmelbari]
SUDAN: Exploring the importance of cinema for democracy.
Hydebank/Altasu [dir: Ross McClean, Eoin Wilson]
SDI: Executing contrasting styles, two films from the 2019 Scottish Documentary Institute «Bridging the Gap» program showcase SDI's admirable geographical balancing-act
Immortal [dir: Ksenia Okhapkina]
RUSSIA: Though the communist era may be over, the ideology of serving the motherland is still very much alive as an ideal for indoctrination.
Sakawa [dir: Ben Asamoah]
AFRICA: Sakawa uses beautiful portraiture to tell a story of Ghana’s enterprising young adults who hope to make a living by learning how to scam on the Internet.
Immortal [dir: Ksenia Okhapkina]
RUSSIA: The dreamlike beauty of Ksenia Okhapkina's concise film connects the subtle mechanisms of control in a former Gulag town.
Hysterical [dir: Paul Higbie and Seth Pompi]
COMEDY: Following two characters on the fringes of New York City's stand up circuit, Hysterical depicts personalities who may very well be more peculiar than their acts.
Ghost Fleet [dir: Sharon Service & Jeffrey Waldron]
ECOLOGY: The human cost of fishing in South East Asia
The age of platforms
(Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism)
(Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism)
MEDIA: Analyzing contemporary social media practices likes fake news, Geert Lovink looks toward a possible end to «platform nihilism».
Adequate compensation for the loss?
(The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media)
(The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media)
MEDIA: Author Jay David Bolter provides a comprehensive description of contemporary digital culture where digital technologies facilitate and shape the creation of many diverse communities of participation.
The New Left’s cinematic revolt
(Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema )
(Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema )
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings the revolutionary cinema of the 1960s alive and reminds us of the necessity of battling the ruling representations.
In Extremis: A story about bravery, talent and betrayal
( In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin )
( In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin )
WAR REPORTER: Marie Colvin covered all the main conflicts of our time, always with the same aim: not only to bear witness, but to bring action.
Intelligent care for a world in disorder
( The Neganthropocene )
( The Neganthropocene )
PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.
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