In Mansourah You Separated Us [dir: Dorothée-Myriam Kellou]
COLONIALSM: A painful voyage back to the silenced Algerian War of Independence
The Good Terrorist [dir: Robert Oey]
TERRORISM: The Good Terrorist provides many inspiring images about Islamic terrorism but fails to explain the motives of those ready to kill in its name
#FEMALE PLEASURE [dir: Barbara Mille]
#FEMALE PLEASURE uncovers how the female body is being demonized and breaks the silence concerning female sexuality.
Far From Past / The Booth of Sabeth [dir: Nicole Foelsterl, Florian Kogler]
MIGRANTS: Two short Austrian documentaries offer varied glimpses into the experiences of elderly, post-war migrants and their lives built in its capital city, Vienna.
Our Defeats [dir: Jean-Gabriel Périot]
ACTIVISM: A humiliating police encounter instills a newfound attitude of dissent toward state control for a group of Parisian high school students.
Prosecuting Evil [dir: Barry Avrich]
The still lively and brilliant Ben Ferencz – now nearly 100 – is the compelling subject of Avrich’s doc.
Life Is a belief [dir: Han Xiao]
CHINA: The separate stories of two men struggling to pay for unexpected medical operations together form a prism through which to view modern China.
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Gods of Molenbeek [dir: Reetta Huhtanen]
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.
Daymokh, The Ancestral Land [dir: Masha Novikova]
CHECHNYA: The way Daymohk opens, one might think it‘s going to be a film that uncritically praises traditional Chechen folk culture and the Head of the Chechen Republic. But the film becomes more interesting once you get past the opening.
Hungary 2018 [dir: Eszter Hajdú]
HUNGARY: Hungary 2018 is a film that shows a caricature of an election campaign in which the winner has already been chosen.
The Serengeti Rules [dir: Nicholas Brown]
NATURE: The Serengeti Rules uncover the self-regulating mechanisms in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, and shows how carnivores can play a crucial role – from the top down.
Born in Evin [dir: Maryam Zaree]
IRAN: Imagine being born in one of Iran’s most gruesome political prisons, not knowing anything about your past, except for what your body tells you. Born in Evin is a story about a brave young woman who seeks the truth about her past.
Grit [dir: Sasha Friedlander, Cynthia Wade]
CAPITALISM: A disturbing documentary discloses the catastrophic consequences of a man-made natural disaster.
The Reformist – A Female Imam [dir: Marie Skovgaard]
ISLAM: In 2015 the Syrian–Finnish Dane Sherin Khankan decided to create a woman-lead mosque in Copenhagen. Director Marie Skovgaard has followed her struggle between individual vision and the challenge of creating a collective.
Democracy Ltd [dir: Robert Schabus]
POPULISM: Democracy Ltd is a wake-up call for the people of Europe at a time when the dark forces of populism are on the rise.
The New Left’s cinematic revolt
( Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema )
( Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left 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 )
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.
How to help the Syrians?
(No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria)
(No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria)
War reporter Rania Abouzeid gained unprecedented access to the heart of the Syrian conflict by clandestinely entering Syria over a number of years. No Turning Back tells the Syrians stories.
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