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First attack, then think: digging up the ocean grounds

Dieter Wieczorek / December 7, 2023

ECOLOGY: Exposing the catastrophic consequences of deep-sea mining on marine ecosystems.

China, climate change, coal, Deep Rising, ecology, Europe, gas, Jason Momoa, Matthieu Rytz, oil, Ólafur Arnalds, Roco Films, Russia, science, WATCH DOCS

The military ambitions of oil states

Hans Henrik Fafner / December 1, 2023

WEAPONS: There are a number of developments in the three oil states of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar, which Jean-Loup Samaan explores in his latest book. These are the three oil states that account for 17 percent of all arms purchases worldwide. Saudi Arabia wants to become a nuclear power in order to stand up to Iran.

China, civil war, Cold War, Economy, India, Mauritania, Middle East, military, Nuclear, Qatar, Riyadh, Sahel, saudi arabia, UAE, WEAPONS:, yemen

Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march

Steve Rickinson / November 2, 2023

CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa’s «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today’s documentaries for social change.

China, cinema, Democracy, Doclisboa, Dust Bowl, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, fascism, Great Depression, Herbert Kline, Hitler, inequality, Irving Lerner, Joris Ivens, Ken Burns, Leo Hurwitz, Michael Moore, Mussolini, New Deal, Pare Lorentz, Paul Strand, Ralph Steiner, realism, Sergei Eisenstein, social change, Soviet Union, Spain, United States, Willard Van Dyke

Mighty Afrin: in the time of floods Angelos Rallis

Braving the Brahmaputra

Nick Holdsworth / October 31, 2023

CLIMATE: As global warming increases heavy flooding on Bangladesh’s mighty Brahmaputra River, impoverished inhabitants of its mud islands are forced to flee.

angelos rallis, AR Productions, Bangladesh, Brahmaputra River, Cargo Film & Releasing, China, climate, Dhaka, Dokufest, ERT TV, Greek Film Centre, Himalayas, India, Jatra, Ji.hlava IDFF, Manny Films, Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods, One World CZ, pandemic, Tibet, ZDF/ARTE

Becoming god

Bianca-Olivia Nita / September 7, 2023

SCIENCE: The rise and fall of a scientist at the heart of a genetic revolution and the controversies it unleashed.

Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Antonio Regalado, China, Cody Sheehy, Diamond Docs, George Church, Gravitas Ventures, Make People Better, media, politics, Random Good, Rhumbline Media, science, Shenzen, Visioni dal Mondo

Sunny Sideof the Doc La Rochelle Pavillion

Sunny Side of the Doc concludes 2023 event; 2024 dates announced, and more.

Modern Times Review / June 22, 2023

The 34th edition of Sunny Side of the Doc has just concluded in La Rochelle, France. With a strong focus

Australia, China

Totalitarianism then and now

Truls Lie / May 25, 2023

IDEOLOGY: A disintegrated society finds unity, energy, and meaning by uniting around a suitable’ enemy’. Totalitarian propaganda has led to the decision to allow Ukraine to use F-16 fighter jets against the nuclear power Russia – with the significant consequences it may entail.

anxiety, Baruch Spinoza, Bertolt Brecht, China, diplomacy, Germany, Hitler, ideology, militarism, NATO, propaganda, Putin, Social media, Stalin, terror, totalitarianism, USA, Zelensky

Prevent the abuse of human rights in social media

Melita Zajc / March 19, 2023

SOCIAL MEDIA: Two films from One World IHRFF prompt us to think about what kind of social media we want in the future.

ByteDance, China, cyberbullying, Generation Z, harassment, human rights, Julian Assange, media theory, misogyny, One World CZ, Planned Parenthood, Prague, sexuality, Social media, social network, suicide, technology, TikTok, UN, violence, Wikileaks

After the fall. The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve Made

The adaptive autocrats

Ranveig Eckhoff / January 20, 2023

AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.

authoritarianism, capitalism, China, Cold War, communist, control, corruption, Dalai Lama, Democracy, donald trump, EU, Free will, Hungary, identity, inequality, internet and, Iron Curtain, it went off the rails. Profit-driven media algorithms treated uncontrolled political influence as free speech beyond the reach of governance. Phenomena like, Joe Biden, NATO, North, obama, Police Cloud, Putin, racism, Russia, Shanghai, the system itself seized power. According to Rhodes, TikTok, UN, United States, Viktor Orbán, were expected to democratise knowledge and open channels between people in all corners of the world. However, Xi Jinping

Shangri-La Paradise Under Construction Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering

Scientifically proven fiction

Melita Zajc / November 15, 2022

LEGENDS: Does Shangri-La really exist? From the mountains of Tibet to global archives, filmmaker Mirka Duijn seeks the answers.

Annemiek van Gorp, Bhutan, China, Diqing, Frank Capra, IDFA, James Hilton, Joseph Rock, LEGENDS, LEGENDS:, Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering, Paradise Under Construction, René Goossens, See NL, Shangri-La, Tibet, Truth, Yunnan, Zhongdian

The Children of Leningradsky Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Capitalism: A global system

Miquel Sanchez / November 15, 2022

CAPITALISM: A look back at the homeless children of post-Soviet Russia.

alcohol, Andrzej Celinski, capitalism, China, climate change, communism, drugs, Economy, Ethiopia, Europe, globalisation, Hanna Polak, human rights, IMF, Japan, Joseph Stiglitz, Kenya, Malawi, Mikhail Gorbachev, moscow, North Korea, Russia, Sara Bernstein, social justice, socialism, Soviet Union, The Children of Leningradsky, United States, USSR

Bees Invisible Mechanism Rubén Casas Oché

Bees in the age of ecological collapse

Nina Ossavy / October 18, 2022

NATURE: Could we survive in a world without pollinators?

Asian hornet, Asturias, Bees. The Invisible Mechanism, chemicals, China, climate, ecology, Evelyn Tewes, honeybee, Mallorca, mass extinction, medimed, nature, pesticides, Rubén Casas Oché, superorganism;