Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival
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Forthcoming Features: Laughing in Afghanistan – «I told myself we must do the film at all costs»
INTERVIEW: Director Anneta Papathanassiou speaks with Modern Times Review on her forthcoming film Laughing in Afghanistan.
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AJB DOC Film Festival sets focus on peace as overall theme for fifth edition; announces full programme
Peace and faith for a better tomorrow connect all participants of films shown at the Fifth AJB DOC Film Festival. The overall theme of the year is the white dove, a universal symbol of peace. Held between 9 – 13 September in #Sarajevo, AJB DOC Film Festival now presents the 25 films (from over 300…
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AJB DOC Film Festival announces jury for fifth edition
The fifth AJB DOC Festival Competition Programme has announced it five-member jury who will select the best film for the AJB DOC Main Award. All competing films enter the competition for the award, which awards the “AJB Program Award”. All films screened at also enter the competition for the Audience Award with a total value…
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Musical resilience
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
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Slovakia’s press freedom under fire
JOURNALISM: Uncovering a vast corruption network at the highest levels of Slovak society.
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Recolonising Ecuador
NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland's resource exploitation at the hands of China.
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Suspended in middair
UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.
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The European administration and the lost children of al-Hol
FAMILY: European governments still refuse to repatriate their state members, including their children
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What happened to Sweden?
FAMILY: After the death of his ISIS bride daughter, one man struggles to then free his multiple grandchildren from a Syrian prison camp.