To be a meeting place
INTERVIEW: Ketil Magnussen, festival director at Human International Documentary Festival in Oslo, talks to MTR.
Luxury for the masses
CONSUMPTION: A humorous and poignant commentary on the mass consumption of our time.
Saying something substantial about others
PHOTOGRAPHY: World renowned photographer Fred Baldwin has published his memoirs at the age of 90. Is this a peculiar insight into a person who, through everything and everyone he meets, first and foremost sees himself?
Waiting and seeing
IFFR: Two shorts from the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam highlight experience from Central America to Pakistan, and beyond.
A reminder about the power of imagination
SUSTAINABILITY: A spirited documentary following a visionary counterculture collective, as well as a cautionary tale about the forces destroying the planet.
Sundance 2020: The promise and pitfalls of technology
TECHNOLOGY: Sundance 2020 featured several films with tech at their center.
Superficiality is the new dialogue
ART: A concept-oriented micro art history work that reevaluates its value
One learning, the other forgetting
CONTROL: The compelling and tragic stories of six women as the last survivors of the Gulag.
For the millions of others
MIGRANTS: By focusing on the life of one small family battling faceless bureaucracy in an uncaring world, Eva Mulvad tells a story of our times.
Lifting the heavy hand of hatred
REHABILITATION: A touching story of the power of forgiveness that poses difficult questions for the families of murder victims – and the perpetrators.
More than any political agreement
CONFLICT: A sensitive and balanced glimpse into the consequences of Colombia’s much-heralded 2016 peace accord
A tiger in the glass house
GLOBALISATION: High tech China clashes with working-class America in the first documentary from the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions