The female orgasm – what is it good for?
Peter Sloterdijk has written an important novel at a time where biological explanations for human actions have become the norm.
SPIES IN THE CONGO: The forgotten victims of the Hiroshima bomb
Susan Williams has made a docu-crime in the spirit of Pinter, le Carré and Galeano.
Are insects the new meat?
The insects we once regarded with disgust are now being touted as the solution to the world’s food shortages. Can insects really save the world?
FAN HO: The roaming street photographer
The photographs of Chinese Fan Ho capture the lives, dreams and hard labour of individuals in an expanding metropolis.
Bergen’s World Theatre
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL returns our global foresight and belief in the future. Here are two of the environmental films from Norway’s most important film festival.
Restrained and harrowing
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy is a strikingly restrained documentary about the little known abuse that took place under the rule of Chadian dictator Hissein Habrés.
A portrait of dementia
Documentary: Chronology and remembrance
How do you portray the world of a person suffering from forgetfulness?
Why submit ourselves?
Why submit ourselves? Stefan Jarl asks in the documentary The Subjection. Why do we accept a life surrounded by danger – unnecessary hazards, which exist because someone profits from them?
Sex and metropolitan living
The metropolitan symphony 21 X New York portrays the iconic metropolis through 21 of its citizens, focusing on what to do or what not to do in a city that never sleeps.