Unity that comes from a common purpose
ACTIVISM: Movement is a lyrical, beautifully lensed view of Agitprop – Moroccan style.
Culture and conscience
COLONIALSM: A painful voyage back to the silenced Algerian War of Independence
Beyond the smiling face
TERRORISM: The Good Terrorist provides many inspiring images about Islamic terrorism but fails to explain the motives of those ready to kill in its name
Viva la Vagina!
SEXUALITY: #FEMALE PLEASURE uncovers how the female body is being demonized and breaks the silence concerning female sexuality.
Landscapes of memory: Two Austrian ladies look back
MIGRANTS: Two short Austrian documentaries offer varied glimpses into the experiences of elderly, post-war migrants and their lives built in its capital city, Vienna.
The New Left’s cinematic revolt
CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings the revolutionary cinema of the 1960s alive and reminds us of the necessity of battling the ruling representations.
School for solidarity
ACTIVISM: A humiliating police encounter instills a newfound attitude of dissent toward state control for a group of Parisian high school students.
Truth is stranger than fiction
HOLOCAUST: The still lively and brilliant Ben Ferencz – now nearly 100 – is the compelling subject of Avrich’s doc.
When luck is down but bills are up
CHINA: The separate stories of two men struggling to pay for unexpected medical operations together form a prism through which to view modern China.
Occupations in resistance
BRAZIL: The story of radical street protests in Brazil told through the experiences of youngsters involved in a mass student democracy movement.
Approaching documentary from a unique angle
VISIONS DU RÉEL: No matter what the subject is, Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi always have one aim: to drive us beyond the immediate.
Marx, where did all your revolutionaries go?
PHILOSOPHY: Narrating his own reminiscences, Christian Labhart spans decades reflecting on the political earthquakes of his lifetime.