Venus without furs
POVERTY: Inside the microcosm of a Portuguese tannery, director Inês Gil presents a story of decline among those on Europe’s fringes.
Promoting social connection
MEDIA: Hacked Transmissions is a timely analysis of the capacity of media to foster social connection.
Under the heavenly blue sky
CULTURE:A vulnerable, vivid and sprawling story about the challenges present for a group of farmers in a remote yet beautiful village.
A young man’s tormented soul
IDENTITY: An ethnographic study of a strange world, presented in highly personal, experimental film language.
Ethnographic fictions: A portrait of Laura Huertas Millán
THESSALONIKI: Challenging the authoritative colonial views about exoticism, ethnography, and anthropology, filmmaker and artist Laura Huertas Millán is transforming filmmaking itself as their traditionally expressive form.
Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa's new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
Family Relations
IRAN: A severe critique of the Muslim model of a family from within, and subtle analysis of patriarchy and authoritarianism
DokLeipzig to feature contemporary documentaries from Iran
DokLeipzig: A look into the extended programme of Iranian documentary featured at DokLeipzig 2019.
Learning about the world of multiple cinemas
MEDIA: Feeding the imagination, desires, and emotions of increasingly mobile and displaced lives, transnational media landscapes take shape.