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Psychedelic frogs and surveillance towers
SURVIVAL: Provocative questions about environment and survival amidst the spectre of global collapse arise from Sundog, a recluse living in the Sonoran Desert.
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The fishermen’s last stand
TRADITION: 150 miles from Rio de Janeiro exists a hidden community descended from indigenous people, escaped African slaves, and European pirates
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Nostalgia for public places
COMMUNITY: In the shadows of Las Vegas, real people, in an unreal situation, face an uncertain future.
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Dissidence and the disappeared
REPRESSION: Through intimate interviews and meditative photography, Ai Weiwei provides visualisation of an unsolved humanitarian crisis.
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By the light of a mobile screen
SPIRITUALITY: In the few years since TV and internet were introduced to Bhutan, daily rituals like candle lighting and recitation of prayer now compete with the lure of smartphones.
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Lucid dreaming: animated documentary at Thessaloniki
THESSALONIKI: Three films from the 2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival prove the multi-dimensional power of animation in non-fiction storytelling.
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Playing in the online dark
ABUSE: In a radical psychosocial experiment, the scope of online child abuse in the Czech Republic is uncovered.
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Forty years in Nicaragua, dreaming
LIFE: Shot over 40 years, an epic about one woman’s struggle for independence requiring her to face her past in the macho-culture of Central America.
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«Canada is not a nation, it’s a corporation»
CAPITALISM: Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fight for their communities, land, and future in the face of environmental racism.