To ask questions that are intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging
INTERVIEW«My background was from journalism, I had to learn film language», says Benjamin Ree on his The Painter and the Thief.
It’s a rich man’s world
CAPITALISM: Carmen Lossman’s forensic film lifts the lid on the great con of late capitalism – the debt and money-go-round that is spinning towards ecological, social and financial disaster.
Lucid dreaming: animated documentary at Thessaloniki
THESSALONIKI: Three films from the 2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival prove the multi-dimensional power of animation in non-fiction storytelling.
Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
A young man’s tormented soul
IDENTITY: An ethnographic study of a strange world, presented in highly personal, experimental film language.
Playing in the online dark
ABUSE: In a radical psychosocial experiment, the scope of online child abuse in the Czech Republic is uncovered.
Hopeless endeavours down the supply chain
CAPITALISM: No justice in a world where Third World workers are as disposable as the cheap garments they make.
Forty years in Nicaragua, dreaming
LIFE: Shot over 40 years, an epic about one woman’s struggle for independence requiring her to face her past in the macho-culture of Central America.
