Last Letters From My Grandma
IDENTITY: From Moldova to the southern Urals to Spain, Last Letters from My Grandma links family loss to larger political fractures, asking what peace costs and who pays.
consumerism
Urban Disobedience Toolkit
PROTEST: Exploring the intersections of activism, gentrification, and urban resistance.
Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
Commercial politics
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.
The privilege of the self-portrait
MEXICO: The intersection of migration and personal identity with Night of the Coyotes and Frida: A Self-Portrait.
Porto/Post/Doc brings «Ideas to Postpone the End of the World» as central theme for 2021 festival
The eighth edition of Porto/Post/Doc will take place from 20 to 30 November November 20th and 30th in a hybrid
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
Zero conference and Nobel prices
CLIMATE CHANGE: If you are prone to dismiss warnings about environmental destruction as exaggerations, you might as well stop reading right away.
Falling prey to illiberal democracies
Rubert Russel makes convincing arguments about the unravelling of the ideals of equality and rule of law and their replacement with illiberal manifestations of popular will.
A warning message to the enlightened consumer
«They tell me I can save the world… the orang-utans, the dolphins, the oceans, the rain forest, and even humankind–all I have to do is buy sustainable and fair products. But that’s a lie.»
– Werner Boote, The Green Lie