The new anarchists
EDITORIAL: Can a film director combine both freedom and solidarity?
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Colonial heritage
COLONIALISM: Two worlds collide during a trip down the Amazon in search of the mixed language Nheengatu, imposed upon indigenous by Portuguese conquerors.
Fragments from Paris
HISTORY: In returning to Paris, German avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger resurrects memories of the city that she called home through the 1960s.
Factory farming filth
FARMING: The filth and falsification at the heart of the factory farming system – responsible for up to 50 percent of the world’s climate change – is revealed.
«While adapting, we are also discovering new ways of doing things»
DOCLISBOA: Festival Directors Joana Sousa and Miguel Ribeiro, speak on the adaptation of the Lisbon-based festival for its 18th edition.
Is there something after the collapse?
SOCIETY: Thoughts on post-collapse societies and ecosocial transition.
The most hated man in the east
REUNIFICATION: Netflix’ first German original documentary series looks at the unsolved mystery at the heart of the country’s tumultuous reunification.
When society is antisocial, who calls it out?
CLIMATE: Since her solitary protest outside Swedish parliament, Greta Thunberg now leads a global movement on the climate change crisis.
Feeling the pictures
PHOTOGRAPHY: The controversial cult status of Helmut Newton, one of the great masters of photography, continues long after his 2004 death.
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.
A woman’s struggle with reality
WOMEN OF EUROPE: Sweden’s former Foreign and Vice Prime Minister Margot Wallström believes we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values have poor conditions.
Raw, naked, and masculine
AFRICA: Before, it was the Baroque that seduced Achille Mbembe, now it’s brutalism – used as an analytical breakthrough to understand Africa and its relationship to Europe.