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Nick Holdsworth
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  • The Kiev Trial Sergei Loznitsa

    History repeating

    WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today's atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.

  • Gorbachev Heaven Vitaly Mansky

    Knocking on heaven’s door

    RUSSIA: Gorbachev's twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director

  • Come on Pilgrim, a film by Marcy Saude

    The Pilgrim Father’s hold

    COLONIALISM: Slavery, conquest and questionable colonial motives.

  • Camouflage, a film by Jonathan Perel

    Darkest days of military rule

    LEGACY: A son's search for meaning at the site of a former Argentinian concentration camp where his mother «disappeared» in the 1970s.

  • The war you dont see john pilger

    The first casualty of war

    JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.

  • Water Has No Borders, a film by Maradia Tsaava

    A forgotten Caucasian geopolitical fracture line

    CONFLICT: A slow-burn lesson in the human casualties of failed politics on the disputed Georgian-Abkhazian border.

  • Nelly & Nadine, a film by Magnus Gertten

    The depths of forbidden love

    LOVE: A poignant and deeply moving story of the love that two women found in a Nazi concentration camp.

  • Atlantide, a film by Yuri Ancarani

    Not the Venice you know

    YOUTH: A reflection of Venice and a haunting adagio for a sinking city and its golden youth.

  • Foragers, a film by Jumana Manna

    Tied to the land

    PALESTINE: The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.

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