The Pilgrim Father’s hold
COLONIALISM: Slavery, conquest and questionable colonial motives.
capitalism
The modern world in contemporary films
FESCAAAL: This year’s edition in Milano offered an insight into the major transformations of the modern world.
Lives lost, opportunities wasted
CHINA: Looking back in anger at the lost chances to help China attain democracy, 30 years after Tiananmen Square.
Searching for an anti-capitalist fugitive
ACTIVISM: In her feature doc Robin Bank, director Anna Giralt Gris goes searching for Catalan activist Enric Duran, who lives in hiding after he «stole» almost 500 000 Euros to expose the banks’ unethical practices.
A story for the end of the world
Magic Kingdom: The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
CAPITALISM: The higher one climbs the ladder, the more obscured the view below becomes.
An endemic state of distraction
TECHNOLOGY: How society’s increased lack of attention has been imposed on us by powerful external forces.
DocPoint wraps with increased audiences, national & international award announcements
DocPoint, Finland’s biggest documentary film festival ended yesterday, 6 February. Held mainly online between 31 January – 6 February, the
In anxious service at the poolside
LABOUR: A new world of colourful bikinis and intense demands opens up to two shy young men working at an all-inclusive hotel on the Turkish Riviera.
The hangover of colonialism
AFRICA: What is civilization? What is belonging? How much can a human being endure? Who are the wild? The heartless?
A dream becomes a nightmare
LABOUR: On the front lines of the visible – and invisible – global platform economy.
Massive change
BRUCE MAU: How about a look back over 30 years, to be able to see and act into the future?