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Skinless exposure
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits
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The shaman and the Norwegian engineer
MODERNITY: The expectation of a paradise free of modern progress become the opposite.
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Kafka in Harlem
JUSTICE: Premiering at this year's Berlinale, Lene Berg's False Belief is playful, disturbing, and sensory-rich.
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Cries from a wounded world
CAPITALISM: A disturbing documentary discloses the catastrophic consequences of a man-made natural disaster.
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Intimacy versus American convention
UTØYA: Between the two recent films depicting the Utøya massacre, Reconstructing Utøya is the one that succeeds.
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An extremist self-portrait
How do you opt out of a community that expects life-long allegiance and responds to dissenters with brutal retributions? In Exit, Karen Winther depicts the hazardous struggle for liberation.
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Soothing reconstructions of the Utøya massacre
If you can only bear watching one film about Utøya, Reconstructing Utøya is worth the wait.
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Portrait of a Ghanaian child porter
Thousands of Ghanaian girls as young as six are systematically sent away from their impoverished rural homes to the capital to scrape together a few pennies – burdened with loads that could break the back of a strong adult.