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  • Behind the Lines Alaa Amer, Alisar Hasan

    Armed with a pen

    SYRIA: A female cartoonist's courageous, spirited view of suffering in war-torn Idlib.

  • Up the River With Acid Harald Hutter

    This too shall pass…

    AGEING How to capture an ending life in two days?

  • Slaughterhouse of Modernity Heinz Emigholz

    Brutalism 101

    ARCHITECTURE: Exploring the dual character of architectural modernism through the tension between the avant-garde and political propaganda.

  • After Work documentary Erik Gandini

    Life after work

    LABOUR: Why being irrelevant could be worse than being exploited in the new world of automation and Artificial Intelligence.

  • The Journalist and Her Jailers Adithya Sambamurthy

    For peace to prevail

    JOURNALISM: How a German trial of two Syrian refugees put the crimes of Bashar al-Assad's regime under the international spotlight

  • Phantom Parrot Kate Stonehill

    Leave your phone at home

    SURVEILLANCE: The blunt force of the UK's terrorism laws.

  • Meeting Point Roberto Baeza

    Hostages to a common past

    TRAUMA: In Roberto Baeza's documentary, the producers – Paulina Costa and Alfredo García – literally play out the past in order to find a way to heal the present.

  • The Negotiators How to Make Peace Rosalind Bain

    The honest brokers of peace

    PEACE: How the Red Cross mediates conflicts around the world.

  • A History of the World According to Getty Images Richard Misek

    Claiming back the free commons of film

    PROPERTY Filmmaker Richard Misek is on a mission to tear down the bars that keep historic images locked away behind paywalls.

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