Psychedelic frogs and surveillance towers
SURVIVAL: Provocative questions about environment and survival amidst the spectre of global collapse arise from Sundog, a recluse living in the Sonoran Desert.
CPH:DOX
Located in Copenhagen, Denmark
CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – is one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. CPH:DOX was founded in 2003. CPH:DOX continues to develop and expand, presenting a program that ranges from the works of major international directors to new talent, from large-scale theatrical releases to film/video works in the field between cinema and visual art. The program goes beyond traditional boundaries between disciplines and media, offering perspectives on creative crossovers between cinema, television and media art.
The fishermen’s last stand
TRADITION: 150 miles from Rio de Janeiro exists a hidden community descended from indigenous people, escaped African slaves, and European pirates
Dissidence and the disappeared
REPRESSION: Through intimate interviews and meditative photography, Ai Weiwei provides visualisation of an unsolved humanitarian crisis.
It’s a rich man’s world
CAPITALISM: Carmen Lossman’s forensic film lifts the lid on the great con of late capitalism – the debt and money-go-round that is spinning towards ecological, social and financial disaster.
Playing in the online dark
ABUSE: In a radical psychosocial experiment, the scope of online child abuse in the Czech Republic is uncovered.
Children in the free
SOCIETY: On the outskirts of Bucharest, a family lives in harmony with nature until forced to adapt to big city life.
The true face of Chechnya’s invisibles
CHECHNYA: A group of activists risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ programme raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Shifting perspectives on art and identity
IDENTITY: Benjamin Ree’s spin on the art heist surprises and invites.
To be a meeting place
INTERVIEW: Ketil Magnussen, festival director at Human International Documentary Festival in Oslo, talks to MTR.
Sundance 2020: The promise and pitfalls of technology
TECHNOLOGY: Sundance 2020 featured several films with tech at their center.
For the millions of others
MIGRANTS: By focusing on the life of one small family battling faceless bureaucracy in an uncaring world, Eva Mulvad tells a story of our times.