Requiem for a dream
RUSSIA: The absurdity of life in Yekaterinburg and the clash between those longing for imperial greatness and a small group of dissidents standing against Putin’s impending invasion of Ukraine.
capitalism
The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one – it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the ‘end of history’ nothing more than a class project?
The end – and beginning – of history
ALBANIA: The country’s transformation was fraught with difficulties. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.
When the world is really on fire
EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch. Will it happen now?
Crossing the Mexico-US border as a touristic game
CAPITALISM: Sometimes the value of a documentary insists on documenting its makeup and fragile circumstances.
Nothing without will
ABUSE: Multi-layered and wholly dedicated to observation, Too Close is as searing an indictment of faith-based tribalism as it is an expose on other current societal practices – from both liberal and conservative, alike.
To reclaim democracy
DEMOCRACY: Community-led initiatives as a contribution to the European Green Deal?
The adaptive autocrats
AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.
Freedom, limited
RUSSIA: The authoritarian stranglehold of the Kremlin closes in across national holidays in contemporary Russia.
Diversity didn’t end social inequality
IDENTITY: For the young, queer community of Medellín, the injustices of colonial heritage consistently intertwine with the brutality of today’s global liberal capitalism.