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How to Feed a Dictator
FOOD: The elderly personal chefs of five strongmen expose the uneasy bond between cuisine, loyalty, and violence.
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Humboldt USA
NATURE: Across fractured American landscapes, Alexander von Humboldt’s forgotten legacy links endangered species, damaged infrastructure and the technological urge to measure nature into disappearance.
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Jazz hands
GEOPOLITICS: How jazz music played a role in political manoeuvres during the Cold War.
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No justice, no peace: A Day, 365 Hours and The Silence of Reason
TRAUMA: Two Sarajevo Film Festival-premiered films take a justice-seeking women's journey, revealing the resilience of rape survivors.
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Unstill life
IDENTITY: A mesmerising documentary delving into themes of art, love, motherhood, and overcoming societal challenges.
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Requiem for a dream
RUSSIA: The absurdity of life in Yekaterinburg and the clash between those longing for imperial greatness and a small group of dissidents standing against Putin's impending invasion of Ukraine.
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Weaponising art
UKRAINE: The profound impact of art as a means of survival and resistance against cultural erasure.
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A numbers game
DOCUFICTION: After an unofficial five-year filmmaking ban, Hungary's Ádám Császi continues to oppose the authoritarian Orbán regime.
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Coming of age under fire
SYRIA: Under bombs, an aspiring video journalist finds herself facing self-reckoning as the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
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Battle royale
NAM: In a documentary diptych, Mila Turajlić examines the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement via an expansive unexplored archive of former Tito cameraman Stevan Labudović.
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Get out
RACISM: A row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs begs the question, can a tree be racist?
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Silent House
IRAN: The fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class Iranian family tracked across forty years of turbulent Iranian history.