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  • Lamentations of Judas-Boris Gerrets-featured

    The pain of guilt

    COLONIALISM: Hung on the cross of history: pain and regret stalk veterans of a controversial South African military unit in Boris Gerrets' biblically-structured Lamentations of Judas.

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    The rest is film history

    CINEMA: In the presence of a god of cinema: Kubrick by Kubrick

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    Factory farming filth

    FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system - responsible for up to 50 percent of the world's climate change - is revealed.

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    To send a message

    SURVEILLANCE: US authorities are gunning for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an attempt to scare other whistleblowers, German TV documentary claims.

  • You've Been Trumped Too-documentary-featured-MTR

    Taking on the bully

    TRUMP: Anthony Baxter's film, delayed by years of legal action, finally secures a timely digital release as Donald Trump's bid for re-election looks increasingly shaky.

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    Christmastime: Where globalism and communism meet

    GLOBALISATION: In a city where it is Christmas all year long, those that produce cheap and tacky seasonal decorations care little for Western traditions.

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    Russia without Putin

    RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day - but don't expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today's Russia.

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    The heart of an ecological crisis

    CAPITALISM: The undercover work of Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency shines a light into the murky and murderous world of illegal logging around the globe.

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    For a few more yards

    CONFLICT: Acclaimed Cambodian director Rithy Panh takes viewers on a compelling disturbing and artistic study of the corrosive power of evil in human existence.

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