Different flags – same motherfuckers
ACTIVISM: A rough but cheerful taxi driver and vlogger becomes an unlikely dissident in Russia’s eastern corner.
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Taiwan International Documentary Festival showcases country’s first wave of indigenous filmmakers
This month’s Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TDF) has announced a special programme: «Indigenous with a Capital ‘I’: #Indigenous Documentaries from
Escape from Danish colonialism
COLONIALISM: Greenlanders upend past patterns while exploring culture and identity
What’s happening to our planet?
ECOLOGY: How a massively popular nature TV series can help the world
The agonising campaign for truth
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China’s suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong.
A city between giants
IDENTITY: Following seven protagonists, the fragmentation of Hong Kong society under the 2019 social movement that attracted the attention of the whole world is on full display.
China’s Uncle Smog Buster on the struggle to combat pollution
ENVIRONMENT: Balancing conflicting political demands for clean air and water – and a thriving economy – in a one party state is not an easy task.
A changing Chinese society
Up the Mountain is a portrait how the shedding of the old is making way for the new in today‘s China.
Digging up the genetic past
In Genesis 2.0 we follow Siberian tusk hunters uncovering animal bodies from the Siberian permafrost. If only one living cell could be recovered – the artificial reconstruction of a living mammoth would become possible.
The cultural revolution revisited
Tensions rise and tears are shed while we follow young Chinese actors trained as Mao Zedong’s Red Guards reliving the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Exodus – Catch 22
The Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Weiwei delivers a captivating life and death fresco of homeless hordes of people in Technicolor.