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Lauren Wissot
A US-based film critic and journalist, filmmaker and programmer.

  • How to Feed a Dictator

    FOOD: The elderly personal chefs of five strongmen expose the uneasy bond between cuisine, loyalty, and violence.

  • Humboldt USA G. Anthony Svatek

    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.

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Johan Grimonprez

    Jazz hands

    GEOPOLITICS: How jazz music played a role in political manoeuvres during the Cold War.

  • The Silence of Reason Kumjana Novakova

    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.

  • IDFA 2022 Awards Apolonia Apolonia Lea Glob

    Unstill life

    IDENTITY: A mesmerising documentary delving into themes of art, love, motherhood, and overcoming societal challenges.

  • The Last Relic Marianna Kaat

    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.

  • Rule of Two Walls David Gutnik

    Weaponising art

    UKRAINE: The profound impact of art as a means of survival and resistance against cultural erasure.

  • Three Thousand Numbered Pieces Ádám Császi

    A numbers game

    DOCUFICTION: After an unofficial five-year filmmaking ban, Hungary's Ádám Császi continues to oppose the authoritarian Orbán regime.

  • 5 Seasons of Revolution

    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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