Silent cries and a money-driven welfare system
CAPITALISM: Midnight Family and Overseas show two very different kinds of underprivileged workers within a backdrop of our times’ ruthless capitalism.
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All talk: ethical diplomacy or bubble of complicity in Davos?
CAPITALISM: With a world at the crossroads, is the annual economic forum of elites a destination of tangible change or another chance to push a «global agenda»?
Another one bites the dust
CAPITALISM: As he tries to keep his own afloat, competition from big companies, cheap labour from the East, and smart machinery all make life increasingly difficult for one Dutch shepherd.
Cries from a wounded world
CAPITALISM: A disturbing documentary discloses the catastrophic consequences of a man-made natural disaster.
The documents that revealed the worldwide theft from the public purse
CORRUPTION: Alex Winter’s behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller.
The mirage of utopia
An essay-documentary meditating on future visions and utopias holds a dark heart given the current state of our society.
The apocalyptic face of capitalism
The shocking reality of Ghana’s electronic waste dump Sodom reveals the truth about our unending need for the newer and better in Western consumerism.
A mourning sister speaks truth to power
Through reflections, prose-poems, and conversations with living and dead revolutionaries, Jackie Wang dissects the American prison system.
Our future with bitcoin and blockchain
Bitcoin, blockchain and crypto: are they a hyped bubble set to burst or a liberating and solidary money system ready to challenge centralised state power and capitalist control?
The city as an arena for exploitation and resistance in the 21st century
A nostalgia-free analysis of the city as an arena for subjectivation and re-composition from the Italian political philosopher Antonio Negri.
Free markets are an illusion
CAPITALISM: John Mikler argues that the world’s largest companies are economically superior to their competitors to such an extent it is wrong to speak of free competition.
In the hallway of the Yugoslav past
Hotel Jugoslavija appears as a mirror image of the Yugoslav glory and downfall, symbolised by the once grand and luxurious hotel in the capital of a country that ceased to exist.