Documentary for social change
SOCIAL CHANGE: Essential reading for all who want to better understand what makes our time the documentary golden age
activism
Boycott or disrupt?
ACTIVISM: Following Icelandic performance art group Hatari who made headlines at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in support of Palestinian rights.
Factory farming filth
FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.
«Now, in the midst of pandemic constraints, is the best time to reflect on the essential role of the films, cinema, film festivals»
ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL: Head of Programming Csilla Kato speaks on the Romanian documentary festival’s 2020 hybrid edition, its challenges, and the post-pandemic industry.
When society is antisocial, who calls it out?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
Promoting social connection
MEDIA: Hacked Transmissions is a timely analysis of the capacity of media to foster social connection.
From ecological grief to rebellion
ACTIVISM: Extinction Rebellion is a rapidly growing climate protest movement, which seeks to convert love of nature, and the rage over political inaction, into collective action. But what is the political potential of grief?
Culture in crisis in Rio de Janeiro
ACTIVISM: The Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro is a prism onto a country in economic and political crisis.
It’s others that interest me
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: At 90, French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda reflects on her career and a creative philosophy of community and empathy.
Unity that comes from a common purpose
ACTIVISM: Movement is a lyrical, beautifully lensed view of Agitprop – Moroccan style.
School for solidarity
ACTIVISM: A humiliating police encounter instills a newfound attitude of dissent toward state control for a group of Parisian high school students.