Stanley Kubrick, the realist
As a filmmaker he has had a significant impact on many of us. In a progressively militarized and technified world, Kubrick remains highly relevant.
It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
Finding a Western husband is not the cure to all pains
Spanning a ten-year period, Heartbound tells the stories of Thai women who realise their dream of marrying a Western man.
The making of AURORA
Once Aurora paints a picture of an industry of men intent on using the young Norwegian artist AURORA as a tool to further their own ambitions more than to nurture her own creative independence.
The documents that revealed the worldwide theft from the public purse
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter’s behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller.
A mesmerising portrayal of India’s extreme right
Covering more than a century of Indian history, Patwardhan weaves a story that exposes the roots of Hindu nationalism and the endless war against India’s «imaginary demons».
Dictatorship and revolt
SUDAN: In Sudan, a small band of filmmakers rise up against the regime using the instrument of film.
Fragments of experience
MUSIC: Across Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC, musician PJ Harvey and photojournalist Seamus Murphy craft a beautifully shot, sensitively edited film on observation, experience, and the creative process.
Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.
Above us, About us: Two new documentaries from Rotterdam
IFFR:This year‘s film festival in Rotterdam unveiled several documentaries and shorts, amongst them Above Us Only Sky – a calming exercise in intellectual and sensual stimulation – and Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture.
No winners, no losers
IMMIGRATION: While US Democrats, Republicans and the President bicker over a border wall, Chèche Lavi shows what whimsical policy measures mean to real people.