Snapshot of a Shattered Community
A final look at a dead way of life, Last Days in Shibati is a filmic record of a once thriving neighbourhood soon to be demolished to make way for development.
Re-humanizing refugees
With a calm and unobtrusive approach, filmmaker and anthropologist Laurent Van Lancker lets inhabitants of the now demolished Calais camp describe their separate society on their own terms.
When Art Opens Eye
DOCUMENTA 2017: The experience of the contemporary art festival’s dynamics – the interaction between cultural and political statements, and my physical and mental movement through it – remains the most thought-provoking part of Documenta.
The Struggle for Admission
EDUCATION: Claire Simon’s documentary about the admissions process at the French film school La Femis provides a fascinating insight into the competition going on behind the screens.
Economy in a sound eco-system
ECOLOGY: An economy where production, consumption and recycling are linked in a balanced “food chain” is the solution to the ecological crisis, according to economist Ove Jakobsen.
Bread and circuses while democracy dies
Climate change, economic inequality, migration, galloping demographic growth and the loss of biodiversity all pose serious threats to civilization.
Women’s Rights to Self-determination Have Lost Ground
USA 2017: A documentary about what happens when the rights to the uterus becomes the subject of a political and religious power struggle, and those who actually own the uterus becomes the victim of the struggle.
The Way One American Sees It
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: After two decades of incendiary filmmaking, American moviemaker Travis Wilkerson has something to tell us about war, racism and activism. And about the use of a radical form of expression.
Netflix
Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California.
Cíntia Gil
DOCLISBOA: Doclisboa is consistent in defending diversity, matching films with audiences and surpassing the rules of the mainstream market
The grandmothers, sexual slavery and the apology
They were born as humans, but were never allowed to live a normal human life
Death’s Waiting Room
Shevaun Mizrahi’s Distant Constellation follows the slow pace of a retirement home and teaches us something about what ageing means.