Astra Film Festival
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The heart of an ecological crisis
CAPITALISM: The undercover work of Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency shines a light into the murky and murderous world of illegal logging around the globe.
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The faces behind the flags
NATIONALISM: A 6-month documentation of Łódź right-wing National-Radical Camp activity.
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It’s a rich man’s world
CAPITALISM: Carmen Lossman's forensic film lifts the lid on the great con of late capitalism - the debt and money-go-round that is spinning towards ecological, social and financial disaster.
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Playing in the online dark
ABUSE: In a radical psychosocial experiment, the scope of online child abuse in the Czech Republic is uncovered.
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No escape
CONFLICT: Eléonore Weber's chilling compilation of military footage reveals the casual killing by men in flying machines who risk nothing in the pursuit of state-sanctioned murder.
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Children in the free
SOCIETY: On the outskirts of Bucharest, a family lives in harmony with nature until forced to adapt to big city life.
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Skinless exposure
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits
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Letting loose the AI demon
TECHNOLOGY: This chilling and critical AI-documentary almost succumbs to the dark fascinations it depicts, leaving a strong and unsettling impression of nascent digital powers outgrowing human control.
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Condemned to an idea of Russia
RUSSIA: Though the communist era may be over, the ideology of serving the motherland is still very much alive as an ideal for indoctrination.