Sunless Shadows [dir: Mehrdad Oskouei]
This is Not a Movie [dir: Yung Chang]
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am [dir: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders]
Máxima [dir: Claudia Sparrow]
State Funeral [dir: Sergei Loznitsa]
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am [dir: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders]
Barzaj [dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Salgado]
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer [dir: Andrey A. Tarkovsky]
Earth [dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter]
Solidarity [dir: Lucy Parker]
That Which Does Not Kill [dir: Alexe Poukine]
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love [dir: Nick Broomfield]
Sheep Hero [dir: Ton van Zantvoort]
Dead Nation [dir: Radu Jade]
Scheme Birds [dir: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin]
Le fond de l’air [dir: Simon Beaulieu]
Who is Afraid of Ideology? [dir: Marwa Arsanios]
LATEST
A Tiny Country/Labyrinth
DOCLISBOA: From the renowned Portugese festival's most fertile patch of talent, two short films focus on politically engaged male residents of bustling European capitals. [director: Pauline Laplace, Oktay Namazov]
Making Waves
CINEMA: A new documentary seeks to give insight into and credit to those unsung heroes responsible for the sound of contemporary cinema as we know it. [director: Midge Costin]
Dollar Heroes
NORTH KOREA: Why do UN sanctions fail to eradicate North Korea’s exploitative operations? [director: Carl Gierstorfer, Sebastian Weis]
Never Whistle Alone
CORRUPTION: In his new film, Marco Ferrari focuses on the heavy personal consequences when you turn into a whistleblower at your own workplace. [director: Marco Ferrari]
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?
Photographer of War
WAR REPORTER: Living a life in a state of emergency, renowned war photographer Jan Grarup's work has taken him to conflict zones around the world, from Darfur to Mosul. [director: Boris B Bertram]
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]
African Mirror
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new. [director: Mischa Hedinger]
Looking For Life
IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people. [director: Sam Ellison]
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]
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]
