Immortality and artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is considered by many to be a more important invention than the discovery of fire and electricity. What road lies ahead?
In power for eight years
Barack Obama’s eight years as America’s first black president indirectly paved the way for the country’s «first white president», according to one of America’s most influential African-American writers.
Introducing more transparency in blockchain
Swedish start up Cinezen Blockchained Entertainment paves the way for the first-ever worldwide agreements for a video on demand service that uses blockchain technology to secure and simplify payments based on cryptocurrencies.
The cultural revolution revisited
Tensions rise and tears are shed while we follow young Chinese actors trained as Mao Zedong’s Red Guards reliving the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
«Someone should see this»
In her personal portrayal of living a life with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or «ME», director Jennifer Brea discloses the public aspect of her private, passive condition and shows how her suffering is a matter of long-standing power relations.
From the old to the new economic world order
By portraying two entirely different Finish family enterprises, Entrepreneur gives an insight into new ways of doing business – with and without meat.
The structural cruelty of American prisons
Marc Morjé Howard’s book provides a shocking picture of America’s treatment of convicts through a detailed comparison of the European and American Prison systems.
Peeling back the layers of the Israeli-Palestine conflict
West of the Jordan River is Amos Gitai’s first return to the Palestinian occupied territories since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. In his latest film he picks up the pieces where he left off – arguing that people is the change needed to make peace in the Middle East.
In the backyard of war
As the peace efforts between Israel and Palestine have come to a halt, the Palestinians in Nabi Saleh dream about access to the Mediterranean Sea – still out of their reach.
Life at the edge of a war zone
Following a Tanzanian taxi driver in a small town in the Donetsk province in Ukraine, Long Echo offers a fresh view on a story that has all-but disappeared from the daily news bulletins of European media outlets.