CIVIL RIGHTS: With a title taken from Langston Hughes’ famous anti-segregation poem of 1942, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman tells the fascinating, little-known story of one of America’s first-ever mixed-race protests against the Jim Crow laws of the US South.
PHILOSOPHY: Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology reframes Fanon, Biko, and others, arguing for truth-seeking Black knowledge beyond Western foundations.
INTERVIEW: Director Johan Grimonprez has for more than 25 years worked with documentaries that addresses power, media and manipulations trough his more essayistic style. His latest film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, was screened at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival – where he garnered the audience award for best documentary
UKRAINE: Filmmaker Maciek Hamela provides a singular and emotional snippet of the war as he drives Ukrainians over the border into Poland.
SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC: Head of Innovation & Digital Experiences Maïté Labat on the decision to separate its PiXii Festival from the immersive marketplace offerings, what commonalities were present across projects and more.
ARMENIA: Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia’s Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.
MEDIA: The struggle for truth – and thus for documentary – has become brutal. A new book analyzes how truth claims and digital culture shape our political realities.
SURVEILLANCE: Examining the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MAFIA: The Nigerian mafia smuggles both people and drugs, while threats, violence and voodoo rituals are used to force girls into prostitution.
A timely documentary about the horrific rape and compelling bravery of Recy Taylor.