Italy’s fifth mafia
MAFIA: The Nigerian mafia smuggles both people and drugs, while threats, violence and voodoo rituals are used to force girls into prostitution.
The true face of Chechnya’s invisibles
CHECHNYA: A group of activists risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ programme raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Skinless exposure
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lene Marie Fossen’s own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits
The shaman and the Norwegian engineer
MODERNITY: The expectation of a paradise free of modern progress become the opposite.
Zelig Film School essay: What is a Documentary?
VIEWS: Three Zelig Film School students agreed to write a small essay when asked which three words come to your mind when you hear DOCUMENTARY
Kafka in Harlem
JUSTICE: Premiering at this year’s Berlinale, Lene Berg’s False Belief is playful, disturbing, and sensory-rich.
Shifting perspectives on art and identity
IDENTITY: Benjamin Ree’s spin on the art heist surprises and invites.
Everything connects to everything else
SOCIETY: Slow cinema about a plastic spoon and a society at the highest levels of development.
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
«artificial elitism doesn’t make sense»
ONE WORLD: Festival Director Ondřej Kamenický offers insight into Prague’s Human Rights Documentary Film Festival’s 2020 edition.
The healing power of cinema
CONFLICT: Through their collective artistic project, a single mother and her four children cope with life inside a war zone.