Middle East
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Eyal Sivan – Masterclass
Interview made by Truls Lie. The Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan talks about his films on Israel, and other projects like what he did with Jean-Luc Godard.
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Shin bet top guns
Director Moreh lets unrepentant and ruthless pensioners reminisce about the decades-long intelligence wars fought against Palestinians. These voices matter.
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Recover from a turbulent past and confront an uncertain future
LIBYA: The revolution in Libya was tailored for today’s preferred style of foreign military intervention.
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To film is also to intervene
Emad gets five cameras smashed, but he keeps on filming and gives us a rewarding insight into Palestine-Israel relations.
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Captured by a mobile phone
For Neda is the tragic story of 29-year-old Neda Agha Soltan whose death, during a street protest against the 2009 elections in Iran, was recorded on a mobile phone and shared via the Internet. This footage went viral, igniting national and international outrage.
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POV IRAN: Threatened from within
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard points to fresh dissent within oppressive regime. A television film gives us first-hand testimony from recent defectors.
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BERLINALE 2010: Gender apartheid
At the Berlinale the documentary "Black Bus" is one Israeli powerful testimony on the repressive nature of Israel.
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Once a democratic country
DOX met the Iranian artist and now filmmaker, Shirin Neshat, who won the prize for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature film Women Without Men combines both the oppression of women in Iran and the historical moment when Iran turned away from being a democracy in 1953. These insights are still alarmingly…
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Direct action
In her new film former activist Simone Bitton delves into the Imindset of young activists today. The foreign activists are alone in the front line, protected by their non-Palestinian nationality, yet in many ways it seems that they are not really prepared for what they are required to do.