A little bit of heaven
CHINA: The raw reality of daily life in China juxtaposes with a microcosm of kindness in a semi-legal countryside orphanage for handicapped children.
China
Communism, nudity and ‘romantic ennui’
YOUTH: Zhu Rikun’s new doc captures Chinese youths as they experiment with their relationships and belief systems.
The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?
Massive change
BRUCE MAU: How about a look back over 30 years, to be able to see and act into the future?
The new tendencies of Taiwanese documentary
TAIWAN: A creative mixture of documentary, animation, and experimental approaches, offers a spectrum of contemporary Taiwan’s lived realities.
Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened
DOK.REVUE: Olaf Möller remembers Karel Vachek, who died in December 2020 at the age of 80
Our tomorrow
CHINA: Wuhan, the epicenter of Covid-19, wakes up from its lockdown to continue its drive as a city of the future.
Never really free
CONTROL: (Nominated for Oscar!) A brief, yet far-reaching, glimpse into the 2019 Hong Kong protests as demonstrations escalate into conflict.
The limits of artificial intelligence
AI: The fallout from MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately.
Left in the mud
CORRUPTION: Political turmoil and ecological catastrophe come together in Venezuela’s existential fight for survival.
Everything we love is transient, fleeting, temporary
ESSAY: It is our self-understanding that is at stake today. With their aggressive, partly inflated subjects, Western technologists, economists, and artists have for centuries seen themselves above nature. In the ecosystem, man is in nature, he is a part of nature, on which he is completely dependent. Can we protect biotopes, habitats, rivers, lakes, soils, oceans and commons? This essay looks at five books examining the ecosystem.
The killing joke
NORTH KOREA: After the mysterious murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, two women go on trial. But are they criminal assassins or political pawns?