The Sea of Shadows [dir: Richard Ladkani]
ECOLOGY: The making of this urgent film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia trading fish organs, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and the last 30 individuals of a rare species of mini whales.
Raving Riot [dir: Stepan Polivanov]
DISSENT: Since its May 2018 police raid, Bassiani, Tbilisi’s largest nightclub, has become a symbol of defiance in the face of social conservatism.
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.
Chasing Yehoshua [dir: Shay Fogelman]
PALESTINE: Manhunt on radical West Bank settler turns into clever psychological portrait of loner with a tormented soul.
About a War [dir: Daniele Rugo, Abi Weaver]
BEIRUT: About a War demonstrates how understanding our history can breed solace, solidarity, and progress in a society where the past is a taboo.
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Privacy of Wounds [dir: Dalia Kury]
SYRIA: Forced to spend three days together in a sparsely furnished room with three single mattresses and a covered window, three Syrian men sit and talk within their makeshift prison cell.
Beirut, La Vie en Rose [dir: Èric Motjer]
BEIRUT: A glimpse into a world of privilege both outrageous and bittersweet.
They need to trigger emotion
Millennium Against Gravity: I am still waiting for a documentary version of House of Cards, says festival director Artur Liebhart.
Woodstock [dir: Barak Goodman]
CULTURE: The American broadcaster PBS has launched a new documentary about one of the key events in American modern history: Woodstock.
«Documentaries fill people’s need for featured reality»
DOK.fest München: MTR talks with the programmers at the DOK.fest München’s International Programme, Julia Teichmann and Monika Haas.
RocKabul [dir: Travis Beard]
CULTURE: A documentary tells the story of the rise of the first Afghan metal band and their fall under the weight of the ultra-conservative society that surrounds them.
Ressaca [dir: Vincent Rimbaux , Patrizia Landi]
ACTIVISM: The Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro is a prism onto a country in economic and political crisis.
Heimat is a Space in Time [dir: Thomas Heise]
GERMANY: Thomas Heise voyages into mental and emotional fractures
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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