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Stitched histories
PALESTINE: Like the Old Testament Joseph and his coat of many colours, a patch-covered jacket becomes a symbol for a greater truth in Mathijs Poppe's touching film of yearning for home, The Jacket.
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The endurance of the ordinary
UKRAINE: Olha Zhurba's meditative take on the war avoids frontline images to show how the conflict affects ordinary people.
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Growing up on the margins
POVERTY: The gritty Hungarian documentary Kix, about growing up in urban poverty in Budapest, is not always easy to watch but tugs at the heartstrings.
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Let the young die
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen's study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there's nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for their own aims.
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Born pre-polluted
HEALTH The dawn of the age of Homo Plasticus – or how plastics are going to kill us, unless we do something about them.
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How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza
ISRAEL: Ever since the Hamas attack on Jewish kibbutzim and festival-goers a year ago, Israeli propaganda has been designed to win support for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the Grayzone's shocking documentary argues.
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Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare
CONFLICT: If truth is the first casualty of war, then Gregory Carleton argues that truth as an ideal in covering conflict was born during a war fought in Ukraine nearly two centuries ago.
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The war remains
UKRAINE: Collateral damage far from the frontlines of Ukraine's long struggle in the east with separatists and now Russian armed forces is seen in Lesia Diak's moving focus on a family torn apart by war.
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Survival and solidarity on Serbia’s polluted frontline
LABOUR: The eponymous collectors of plastic waste are just another slice of human history in Nemanja Vojinovic's Bottlemen.