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BEFORE THE FLOOD. Director: Fisher Stevens
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets with scientists, activists and world leaders to discuss the dangers of climate change and possible solutions.
BUGS. Director: Andreas Johnsen. 2016
The insects we once regarded with disgust are now being touted as the solution to the world’s food shortages. Can insects really save the world?
THE SUBJECTION. Director and scriptwriter: Stefan Jarl
Why submit ourselves? Stefan Jarl asks in the documentary The Subjection. Why do we accept a life surrounded by danger – unnecessary hazards, which exist because someone profits from them?
THE COMMUNE. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark, 2016
«The Commune» takes on the recognition that local socialism is so very hard to achive.
INTO ETERNITY.Director Michael Madsen, Denmark/ Finland/Sweden/Italy, 2010, 75 min
Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest documentary, Into Eternity. The scientists simply do not know how to answer.
EL EJIDO, THE LAW OF PROFIT. Belgium 2006, 82 min. Director: Jawad Rhalib
During the tour of Europe’s food industry presented in Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary “We Feed the World”, there is a sequence about the greenhouses covering Almeria.
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Psycho Nation
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Failure to act could have dire consequences
Could modern civilisation break down? Yes, of course it could. Anyone who rejects this statement as alarmist, should watch The Age of Consequences.
The background for this interview were six, quite insistent, emails from the Israel Embassy in Norway, to end their Modern Times subscription, and have the remaining amount refunded. This led me to believe that the Embassy did not want to read the criticism directed at Israel in our columns. I wrote a Facebook comment about this; hinting at this totalitarian attitude, evident in completely ignoring all forms of criticism.
Interview made by Truls Lie. The Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan talks about his films on Israel, and other projects like what he did with Jean-Luc Godard.
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