conflict
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Human safari
CONFLICT: The story of wealthy foreigners who turned besieged Sarajevo into a human safari, paying high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents.
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The first casualty of war
JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.
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A forgotten Caucasian geopolitical fracture line
CONFLICT: A slow-burn lesson in the human casualties of failed politics on the disputed Georgian-Abkhazian border.
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A case of history repeating
CONFLICT: After Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, a genocide began against the peninsula’s indigenous people - the Crimean Tatars.
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Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
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Woman as a Victim of the Afghan System
AFGHANISTAN: In 2021, Doclisboa dedicated one of its programme blocks to the topic of women in the patriarchal society of Afghanistan. While the two films screened, Orchestra from the Land of Silence (2020) and Oh Dear Sara (2021), differ in many ways, their chilling message takes on a particularly intense dimension given the current situation…
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Every war is a war against children
CONFLICT: Life stories reflecting some of the worst war scenes we know from the last century.
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A school of thinkers
EDUCATION: One teacher's determination in turning the fortunes of an inner-city plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
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When it comes to distribution, think both local and global
DISTRIBUTION: A comprehensive map through the diverse landscape of modern documentary distribution.