We are movie cameras, lucidly dreaming
BOOKS: Filmmaker and curator Pamela Cohn knows all about the medium’s gallant struggle for a cinematic language that is new, immediate, and accessible to the viewer.
Syria
A step at a time
MIGRANTS: Journey into a new life for a Syrian refugee and his son is a poignant story of love and courage.
Under the rubble, vital signs persist
SYRIA: The renowned new documentary from Feras Fayyad is an unflinching depiction of courage, resilience and female solidarity.
Close to Turkey’s border
ECO-FEMINISM: Nature is the best source for strength and survival in a war-torn part of the world, and Kurdish women of Syria intend to utilize this while rebuilding their lives when peace settles in again.
A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny
SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.
A descent into the realm of torture
SYRIA: Forced to spend three days together in a sparsely furnished room with three single mattresses and a covered window, three Syrian men sit and talk within their makeshift prison cell.
The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
Lost outside time
SYRIA: In Syria, not even once dead do you get peace. You may have thought that you had seen all. Instead, you had yet seen nothing.
Born in Evin
IRAN: Imagine being born in one of Iran’s most gruesome political prisons, not knowing anything about your past, except for what your body tells you. Born in Evin is a story about a brave young woman who seeks the truth about her past.
From the frontlines of the war on refugees
REFUGEES: Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows up his documentary Human Flow with a reportage from the warzones that await refugees in Europe. The Rest is about the millions who came for shelter but found none.
Truth as a game of cat and mouse
MEDIA:The Bellingcat group is on the frontline of an urgent counter-movement against the manufacture and dissemination of lies that are destabilising traditional journalism.