Raiders of the Lost Archives
Unearthed footage helps documentary filmmakers offer alternative historical perspectives.
The collateral damage of violence
The shadow of violence can stretch long and wide and these two films illustrate the indirect damage that continues long after direct violence has ceased.
Modern-day slave
Slavery is not dead. Here is one woman’s story of enslavement and the affect the filmmaker’s presence has on her life.
The Congo Tribunal
The new documentary by Milo Rau provides a platform for accountability on the battleground of the country of Congo.
The power of vanity
Nicolas Wadimoff’s portrait of his old teacher, the Swiss intellectual and revolutionary Jean Ziegler, attempts to test convictions against realities.
The Deadly Heritage of Colonization
Sri Lanka: Cannes presents a documentary about the slaughter within the Tamil community during the civil war between the Tamils and the Sinhalese of Sri Lanka.
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.