Around Paradise
CONTROL: Conspiracy culture, settler ideology, and capitalist exploitation converge inside a gated Paraguayan enclave.
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Orwell: 2+2=5
CONTROL: The rat cage gone from metaphor to reality: Orwell’s systopia realised and then some.
In The Opinion Of The Censor
CONTROL: An eye-opening glimpse into Ireland’s history of cinema censorship, where a 1923 law allowing films to be cut, renamed, and banned according to «the opinion of the censor» remains, with amendments, on the Statute Book.
The Spies Among Us
CONTROL: From training teens as agents to weaponizing psychology, this story exposes the machinery of East German social control and its wounds that still linger.
The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
CONTROL: A corporate spy embeds with environmental activists, flips (sort of), and drags an asbestos empire into view. What follows isn’t a clean exposé but a knot of moral grey zones.
In the Penal Colony
PRISON: Sardinia’s last penal colonies merge inmates, workers, animals, machines, and wind into a lyrical collective cry for freedom.
From housing injustice to exile Czech films at One World confront global & local crises
Each year, the Czech Film Competition at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival spotlights some of the most
The Moelln Letters
RACISM Decades after the Mölln arson attacks, The Moelln Letters exposes how solidarity letters were concealed, revealing structural racism’s grip on historical memory.
Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas
ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
Nikolaus Geyrhalter: «I don’t like humans as a species.»
INTERVIEW:The 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival paid a tribute to the Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter (51), with a masterclass and screening of 10 films.