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Limits of Europe Apolena Rychlíková

Limits of Europe

Lucija Furac / December 1, 2024

EUROPE: The invisible economic labor of Eastern European workers.

alcohol, Apolena Rychlíkova, Brexit, Eastern Europe, Europe, Hypermarket Film, Ji.hlava IDFF, Limits of Europe, Peter Uhl, Pilot Film, Saša Uhlová, Western Europe

The Children of Leningradsky Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Capitalism: A global system

Miquel Sanchez / November 15, 2022

CAPITALISM: A look back at the homeless children of post-Soviet Russia.

alcohol, Andrzej Celinski, capitalism, China, climate change, communism, drugs, Economy, Ethiopia, Europe, globalisation, Hanna Polak, human rights, IMF, Japan, Joseph Stiglitz, Kenya, Malawi, Mikhail Gorbachev, moscow, North Korea, Russia, Sara Bernstein, social justice, socialism, Soviet Union, The Children of Leningradsky, United States, USSR

How to Save a Dead Friend, a film by Marusya Syroechkovskaya

Russia inside

Dieter Wieczorek / April 13, 2022

YOUTH: For many young Russians, anyone older than 30 is a cunt.

Afghanistan, alcohol, BELDOCS, DocAviv, Dokufest, drugs, How to Save a Dead Friend, HUMAN idff Oslo, IDFA, Iraq, Joy Division, Ksenia Gapchenko, Libya, Mario Adamson, Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Nazi, nihilism., Nordisk Panorama, nostalgia, One World CZ, Putin, suicide, Syria, therapy, Ukraine, Visions du réel, youth

A House Made of Splinters, a film by Simon Lereng Wilmont

Suspended in middair

Bianca-Olivia Nita / March 9, 2022

UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.

A House Made of Splinters, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, alcohol, conflict, CPH:DOX, DocAviv, Docudays UA, Dokufest, HUMAN idff Oslo, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, IDFA, MakeDox, Monica Hellström, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Nordisk Panorama, Porto/Post/Doc, post-communist, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Sundance Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, trauma, Ukraine, unemployment

Russian Education-documentary-featured

Katya and Vasya go to school

Nick Holdsworth / May 28, 2020

EDUCATION: Education takes on an entirely new meaning when two idealistic young city slickers take up teaching jobs in a provincial Russian town.

alcohol, education, Eugenia Vengerova, FSB, geography, Hey! Teachers!, IDFA, Krakow Film Festival, moscow, nationalism, Romanticism, Soviet, Yulia Vishnevets

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets-Las Vegas Documentary - featured

Nostalgia for public places

Carmen Gray / March 23, 2020

COMMUNITY: In the shadows of Las Vegas, real people, in an unreal situation, face an uncertain future.

alcohol, Berlinale, Bill Ross IV, Bloody Nose, Chere Theriot, China, community, coronavirus, COVID19, DocAviv, Docudays UA, Empty Pockets, gentrification, IDFA, Las Vegas, Michael Gottwald, New Orleans, Sundance Film Festival, Turner Ross

Saudi Runaway-Berlinale 2020-views-featured

Berlin stinks

Truls Lie / March 3, 2020

BERLINALE: There really was something behind the films at the Berlinale this year.

ai, Ai Weiwei, AIDS, alcohol, Annemarie Jacir, Berlinale, Bologna, Carlo Chatrian, China, Chisso, coronavirus, David France, Der Tagesspiegel, drugs, Hillary Clinton, HIV, Italy's, Johnny Depp, Ketil Magnussen, LGBTQ, Life magazine, Mexico, Palestine, pollution? [caption, Ramzan Kadyrov, Saudi, stress, traffic, W. Eugene Smith

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