China
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Living in the trash
IDENTITY: From the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, an intense look into the lives of the neglected and forgotten.
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Lives lost, opportunities wasted
CHINA: Looking back in anger at the lost chances to help China attain democracy, 30 years after Tiananmen Square.
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Banned Falun Gong and the defiant story of TV hijacking
CHINA: Revisiting the Falun Gong’s TV takeover on the 20th anniversary.
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Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland's resource exploitation at the hands of China.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films
The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and acute glance at the most heated issues of our times. The International Competition includes Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, which unfolds the spectacular and ambivalent story of the bulletproof vest’s inventor. In A House Made of…
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DocPoint wraps with increased audiences, national & international award announcements
DocPoint, Finland’s biggest documentary film festival ended yesterday, 6 February. Held mainly online between 31 January – 6 February, the festival attracted an audience around Finland and included 64 domestic and foreign films. For 2022, DocPoint saw a 1/3 audience increase compared to the 2021 festival, also held online. The DocPoint awards were given on…
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Rituals of impermanence
RELIGION: 20,000 female Tibetan Buddhist Monks offer a glimpse into their religious exploration of life’s biggest questions.
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The world’s most unrecognised human rights tragedy
CHINA: Genocide by any other name – President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate the Muslim Uyghurs of Western China.
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A dream becomes a nightmare
LABOUR: On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.