Cinema and the post-truth world
REALITY: Cinema’s unique role in investigating reality, fiction, AI-driven propaganda, and how imagination shapes our perceptions in the post-truth world.
Hollywood
No justice, no peace: A Day, 365 Hours and The Silence of Reason
TRAUMA: Two Sarajevo Film Festival-premiered films take a justice-seeking women’s journey, revealing the resilience of rape survivors.
We don’t want the smoking gun at the head of civilisation to be a mushroom cloud
OPPENHEIMER: The mainstream embraces sex and death in nuke movie.
Aurora’s Sunrise
ARMENIA: A harrowing, engrossing story of Aurora Mardiganian who finds herself in the throes of the Armenian genocide.
Future in the past
DOCUMENTARY: In a rigorous collection of essays, The Companion offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in the field of documentary.
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
Embracing femininity as a form of empowerment
FEMININITY: Two films from Nordisk Panorama observe groups of women going against social conventions in claiming back youth on their own terms.
The power game
GAZE: The mechanisms of exploitation of women as sexual objects in Hollywood films, exposed.