Yanuni
INDIGINOUS: The intimate cost of fighting for the Amazon.
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Life and Other Problems
HUMANITY: Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?
From housing injustice to exile Czech films at One World confront global & local crises
Each year, the Czech Film Competition at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival spotlights some of the most
The Tree of Authenticity
ECOLOGY: Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.
«It’s not about becoming bigger; it’s about creating connections»
BIFED: Ahead of its 11th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with Festival Coordinator Ethem Özgüven and Festival Director Petra Holzer on the festival’s origins, mission, and the challenges and opportunities ecological documentary filmmakers face today.
Paradise lost
INDIGENOUS: Contacting the last remaining completely isolated indigenous tribes of the Amazon.
Life after work
LABOUR: Why being irrelevant could be worse than being exploited in the new world of automation and Artificial Intelligence.
A dream becomes a nightmare
LABOUR: On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.
The limits of artificial intelligence
AI: The fallout from MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately.
Death in Istanbul
CONTROL: In October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out, leaving his fiancée and an international community of dissidents to piece together clues to his murder.
Everything is other people’s fault
MEDIA: Where advertising gives a feeling of well-being, desire and pleasure, new media consumption gives one of paranoia, anger and mistrust. Hate sells. Even on Capitol Hill.