The Medicated Generation: Controlling Feelings and Thoughts
The pharmaceutical industry paves the way for the society of the future, in which tens of thousands of deaths are considered just a side effect.
Norway
The West, the rest, and the great test
GEOPOLITICS: The phrase «the international community» needs to be redefined. Today, it is simply a phrase politicians use when they want to avoid taking responsibility.
Brexit: the Shame of Democracy
DEMOCRACY: In this documentary, we meet both people who voted for the UK to leave and to remain in the EU, as well as experts like Noam Chomsky.
Into the billionaires’ pockets
«The war on terror» keeps journalists occupied and silences the population, all the while the war rearmament provides enormous profits – to the select few.
Looking humanity in the eye
With its excessive simplicity, the cinema documentary and multimedia project Human is able to bring us a little closer together.
RAPHAEL SCHUTZ: Being the Israeli Ambassador to Norway
The background for this interview were six, quite insistent, emails from the Israel Embassy in Norway, to end their Modern Times subscription, and have the remaining amount refunded. This led me to believe that the Embassy did not want to read the criticism directed at Israel in our columns. I wrote a Facebook comment about this; hinting at this totalitarian attitude, evident in completely ignoring all forms of criticism.
DRONES: A Little Piece of Norway
The threshold for killing someone is lower when you do not have to see those you kill. New leaks reveal the brutality of the US drone programme.
DIRECTOR BEATE ARNESTAD: The “Disease” of Humanity
Beate Arnestad is proving to be one of Norway’s most interesting international filmmakers at the moment, writes Truls Lie. From addressing the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, she went on to track a major court case after the genocide in Rwanda. Her documentaries depict individuals under extreme pressure.
A lyrical and critical portrait of life among a marginalised people
The title refers to a favourite Uyghur pastime, and, of course, is a good metaphor for their situation as a people.
Behind the curtains in a Norwegian home for the elderly
Filmmaker Margreth Olin examines the care of the elderly in a Norwegian home where spouses are often made to stay in separate rooms