Ms. President
POLITICS: A look at Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová’s transformative term.
Buddhist
Nikolaus Geyrhalter: «I don’t like humans as a species.»
INTERVIEW:The 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival paid a tribute to the Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter (51), with a masterclass and screening of 10 films.
Devoted to a double life
RELIGION: After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.
Why? Food waste, reproductive rights, and claiming the ultimate truth
THE WHY: Three shorts made over the years that are just as relevant today.
Christmastime: Where globalism and communism meet
GLOBALISATION: In a city where it is Christmas all year long, those that produce cheap and tacky seasonal decorations care little for Western traditions.
The agonising campaign for truth
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China’s suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong.
More than human
ENVIRONMENT: Peter Mettler is known for his intuitive and experimental film making. The new film Becoming Animal has also an ecological and philosophical depth, as it involves the Canadian philosopher David Abram.
The Evil or the Unbearable?
Barbet Schroeder presents the final segment of his ‘Trilogy of Evil’ at Cannes.