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Are we being fooled by IKEA’s promise of a greener future?

Margareta Hruza / February 15, 2024

CAPITALISM: Ikea, consuming a tree per second, acquires vast lands globally, endangering ecosystems and becoming the forest’s most formidable foe.

arte, Brazil and, but it is IKEA at the end of the economic chain that sustains and supports the ecologic degradation of the native forest. Like with everything that is fast, by 2025. As a part of their preparation, capitalism, Carpathian Forest, causing environmental disasters. In Brazil, China, climate, Cold War, communist, consumption, deforestation, Disclose Films, ecology, Equality, fashion, food, forest colonisation, Ikea, IKEA - The Tree Hunter, IKEA has been hiding behind contractors, IKEA is being taken to court for bringing ecological damage to that country's forest. As one of the lawyers put it, Ingvar Kamprad, it is our, Marianne Kerfriden, or furniture, Poland, Premieres Lignes, Romania, Russia, they bought vast forests in these countries where they applied their «sustainable forest management.» The strategy was to replace valuable virgin forests with fast-growing pine trees, welfare, which would be ready to log in 50 years. The locals call it a form of forest colonisation, Wood, Xavier Deleu, you always can be sure that someone is paying that price.» In this case, «We are on a highway to ecological hell.» Until now, «when the price is very low

«We are seeing a shift with the development of immersive exhibitions that use documentaries»

Steve Rickinson / June 15, 2023

SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Head of Innovation & Digital Experiences Maïté Labat on the decision to separate its PiXii Festival from the immersive marketplace offerings, what commonalities were present across projects and more.

arte, ChatGPT, civil rights, generative AI, Instagram, Maïté Labat, Midjourney, Netflix, PiXii Festival, Sunny Side of the Doc, Twitter, VR, XR, youtube

A lifetime prison hidden in the center of the free world

Dieter Wieczorek / May 8, 2023

HUMAN RIGHTS: The struggles of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that does not recognize them as its own.

arte, Chicago, depression, Dirk Manthey Film, Dreamers, human rights, Intermezzo Films, Lightdox, Luc Peter, Mexico, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Stéphanie Barbey, Swiss Films, SWR - Südwestrundfunk, United States, violence, Vision du Réel

A rebellion with no end

Melita Zajc / November 10, 2022

GENDER: The unique written language made as a vent for Chinese women who were not allowed to read or write.

arte, Films from the South, gender, Hidden Letters, HUMAN idff Oslo, Independent Lens, Jean Tsien, language, Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian Film Institute, Nüshu, Su Kim, Sundance, Violet Du Feng, ZagrebDox

IDFA, Sundance, True/False and more to join second 2022 dok.incubator workshop session

Modern Times Review / June 9, 2022

Representatives of top international festivals will meet at the second dok.incubator workshop session in Olomouc, Czech Republic from June 19

arte, Basil Tsiokos, Cinephil, Deckert Distribution, dok.incubator, HBO, IDFA, Lightdox, Sundance, Visions du réel

The Documentary Distribution Toolkit Cover

When it comes to distribution, think both local and global

Steve Rickinson / March 14, 2022

DISTRIBUTION: A comprehensive map through the diverse landscape of modern documentary distribution.

Al, Alice Elliot, Anam Abbas, arte, Belfast, Chanda Chavannes, Cinema Vérité, conflict, distribution, IndieGoGo, IRA, Joanna Bowers, Kickstarter, MUBI, Nancy Frohman, Netflix, NHK, philosophy, Seed&Spark, Seneca, Stavros Stavrides, Stephanie Black, Tënk, Tënk—there, violence

A cruel game by Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, exposed

Melita Zajc / February 20, 2022

HISTORY: Nina Gladitz’s film about Roma and Sinti survivors of Shoah has been hidden in the WDR archive since 1982. Reactions to her book show we live in times when searching for the truth and giving voice to the weakest in societysociety causes suspicion, not respect. But simply accepting that such are the times might be the real problem.

arte, Auschwitz, Béla Balázs, Dieter Hinrichs, fascism, France, Germany, Helmut Kindler, History, Hitler, Johathan Rosenbaum, Josef Reinhard, Julian Assange, Kitzbuhel, Leni Riefenstahl, National Socialist, Nazi, Nina Gladitz, Piotr Uklanski, Poland, Roma, Salzburg, Sinti, Social media, Spain, Switzerland, USA, WDR, Willy Zielke

China: The Uyghur Drama, a film by François Reinhardt

The world’s most unrecognised human rights tragedy

Nick Holdsworth / January 23, 2022

CHINA: Genocide by any other name – President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate the Muslim Uyghurs of Western China.

arte, Birobidzhan, Canada, Central Asia, China, China: The Uyghur Drama, Communist Party, East Turkistan, EU, Europe, Fabrice Estève, François Reinhardt, human rights, Lake Baikal, Montenegro:, Muslim Uyghurs, Myrto Grecos, Nazi, Red Army, Russia, silk road, UK, USA, Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang

The Last Shelter, a film by Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou

Youth, migration, and documentary decolonisation

Lauren Wissot / May 3, 2021

AFRICAN FILM: Don Edkins and Tiny Mugwe discuss the Generation Africa project.

Africa, AFRICAN FILM, AFRICAN FILM:, arte, copenhagen, CPH:DOX, decolonisation, Don Edkins, Europe, Hitler, Hot Docs, South Africa, Tiny Mungwe, Visions du réel

ARTE 2007: The Cultural Channel of Europe

Tue Steen Müller / May 18, 2007

By contrast with most other European public service channels, Arte still keeps flying the European flag of culture.

arte, France Télévisions, Grand Format, Jerome Clément, TV

AVANT-GARDE ARCHIVE FILM: Seeing without Knowing

Ulla Jacobsen / December 15, 2005

Susana de Sousa Dias uses only twelve minutes of archive footage in her 72-minute archive-based film “Still Life”

Ansgar Schäfer, arte, Calouste Gulbenkian, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Docs Kingdom, filmmaker, historical, ICAM, Kafkaesque, La Lucarne, Lisbon Docs, Portugal, Portuguese, Portuguese film institute, propaganda, Still Life, Susana de Sousa Dias, Xavier Carniaux