Refugees, aestheticized
Can a refugee in a film become too aesthetic, losing his ethical relevance?
Some things only come out at night
Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to the dark side of a Europe filled with lives at night: loneliness, sadness, death, refugees, drunken and somewhat foolish people, sex for money, illness and surveillance.
Behind the veil of a culture
Who has to cover up for God and uncover for men when the club curtains are drawn in this film about belly dancing?
The adrenalin rush
World had hacked their way into the voicemail systems of both celebrities and private persons such as the missing teenager Milly Dowler who was later found murdered.
Unfinished logic
Where does one film begin and the other one end? A Film Unfinished is about, and “is” propaganda.
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Melbourne 2011: The human condition
When faced with the choice of starvation or survival, the family chooses to trade their
younger daughter
A massive «cover-up»
A young filmmaker asks why osama Bin Laden was never on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. He also questions how close the ties between The White House and the 9/11 Commission actually were.
The mysterious Al Qaeda
According to British documentarist Adam Curtis, in 2001 the US had a desperate need to create a new external enemy which could unite America behind their policies. He also shows how Al Qaeda was invented in a courtroom in Manhattan in January 2001.
9/11
It is now 10 years since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Such an occasion brings to mind numerous documentary films that have depicted the events from every angle you could possibly imagine.
HOTDOCS 2011: Dreaming your way through reality
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival offered a lexicon of subjects and visual styles; a move from the illusion of cinema towards authenticity.
