Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa’s new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
A collaborative closeness
BIOGRAPHY: A dense journey encompassing the life on Toni Morrison and her place in history.
In limbo, caught between two worlds
POETIC: The film silently observes the boys who dream of reaching the European shores, painting a picture of their ordeal amid the lingering crisis.
A spectrum of consciousness
SOCIETY: Simon Beaulieu’s untraditional film seeks to convey the multitude of anxieties experienced in the modern world.
Homo Politicus: on two new documentaries at DocLisboa 2019
DOCLISBOA: From the renowned Portuguese festival’s most fertile patch of talent, two short films focus on politically engaged male residents of bustling European capitals.
Cinema’s hidden power
CINEMA: A new documentary seeks to give insight into and credit to those unsung heroes responsible for the sound of contemporary cinema as we know it.
Careful explorations on human impermanence
PHOTOGRAPHY: A global range of 21st-century photobooks by female photographers.
Art in spite of the state
CINEMA: Reflecting on the destiny of art and the meaning of existence, Andrey Tarkovsky tells the story of his life and work.
The dirtiest work of all?
CONTROL: The determination of a community that comes together in the name of justice.
Close to Turkey’s border
ECO-FEMINISM: Nature is the best source for strength and survival in a war-torn part of the world, and Kurdish women of Syria intend to utilize this while rebuilding their lives when peace settles in again.
